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LondonMozart on the Road: Part 2
Bach C.P.E., Bach J. C., Mozart
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; Kati Debretzeni; Jean-Guihen Queyras
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The OAE: why it's not wise to always see double
Sometimes streaming a concert unadorned with context or contrast is not enough.
Pallid Berlioz from the OAE
A disappointing pairing of Berlioz and Mendelssohn from a conductorless Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
Many strings to their bows
The Baroque credentials of St John's Smith Square were thoroughly endorsed in a beautifully proportioned concert by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment directed by the doyenne of British Baroque violinists, Rachel Podger.
A Venetian expedition to the Pietà for the OAE
A recreation of the choral sound Vivaldi may have experienced at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice doesn't quite come off.
Not all Four Seasons are the same: Vivaldi and Telemann at St George's Bristol with the OAE
According to the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, “Not all orchestras are the same”. I’m not sure who doubts this rather obvious statement; but I’m certain I’m not alone in thinking the OAE to be a unique ensemble, and not just for the eccentricity of its name.
St. John's Smith Square, Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists/ Gardiner/ Debretzeni
Bach, Biber, St. John's Smith Square. Clever juxtapositions, and they worked. The programmer of this concert - by the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Solists under Sir John Eliot Gardiner - had a neat thought, to place Bach's six Motets (BWV 225-230) into the former church in SW1. The building and the motets date from the same decade, the 1720's.