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Everything you could wish for in style and attack
Iestyn Davies 40th Birthday Concert, Wigmore Hall ...up-tempo Handelian swagger in three of the Opus 6 Concertos and the heavenly ‘Chaconne’ from Il
I initially thought it was a human voice
Orfeo ed Euridice, Edinburgh International Festival The 18th century-style oboe, bursting into song in the pastoral scene, was like an ecstatic sunburst -
Astonishing intensity
Orfeo ed Euridice, Usher Hall, Edinburgh International Festival Much of the most intense music-making came not from the singers but from the players
Sweet enchanting harmony
Orfeo ed Euridice, Edinburgh International Festival There was indeed - as per part of the aria’s translation -‘sweet, enchanting harmony’ displayed in the
a Vespers which wrung every grain of dramatic force…
Monteverdi Vespers (1610) Cummings’s jumping exuberance (while managing to play the harpsichord and organ continuo as well) set the tone for a Vespers which wrung
