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Criticks Reviews: Music

Careful! Tomaso Albinoni: ‘The Domineering Chambermaid’

Careful! Tomaso Albinoni: ‘The Domineering Chambermaid’

Michael Burden directs a new English production of Albinoni's comic intermezzo 'Pimpinone'.

Event Date(s): 28th Nov 2014

Location: New College Antechapel, Oxford

Reviewed by: Peter Schofield

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Changing Modes: Explaining and Performing C. P. E. Bach’s Changing Styles

Changing Modes: Explaining and Performing C. P. E. Bach’s Changing Styles

David Schulenberg's presentation of some significant but often overlooked C.P.E. Bach works is met with appreciation by a full audience.

Event Date(s): 18th Nov 2014

Location: Joint Conference of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory, Milwaukee

Reviewed by: Andrew Malilay White

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Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas

Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas

Barrie Kosky's staging of Dido and Aeneas leaves much to be desired.

Event Date(s): 29th Oct 2014

Location: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles

Reviewed by: Howard D. Weinbrot

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Il Caro Sassone: Hasse’s Leucippo (1747)

Il Caro Sassone: Hasse’s Leucippo (1747)

All is not well in Tatjana Gürbaca's colourless new production of Hasse's pastoral opera.

Event Date(s): 27th Oct 2014

Location: Palladium, Cologne

Reviewed by: Tullia Giersberg

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Richard Strauss’s Capriccio (1942)

Richard Strauss’s Capriccio (1942)

The eighteenth century makes for an interesting context in this production of Strauss's 'conversation piece'.

Event Date(s): 28th Oct 2014

Location: The Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago

Reviewed by: Howard D. Weinbrot

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Haydn’s Life on the Moon

Haydn’s Life on the Moon

ETO's staging of Haydn's comic opera has the audience in stitches from the start.

Event Date(s): 17th Oct 2014

Location: Hackney Empire, London

Reviewed by: Hannah Templeton

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Cesky-Krumlov-lIpermestra

Hasse’s l’Ipermestra at Český Krumlov

The baroque theatre at Česky Krumlov provides a fitting stage for this modern world premiere.

Event Date(s): 30th Sep 2014

Location: Český Krumlov, Czech Republic

Reviewed by: Frans and Julie Muller

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Camerata Academica of the Antipodes

Camerata Academica of the Antipodes

New ensemble Camerata Academica of the Antipodes delight and astonish in their debut concert.

Event Date(s): 31st Aug 2014

Location: St Alban's Church Hall, Epping, Sydney, Australia

Reviewed by: Timothy Harries and Jenny Vergison

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Infidelity, Deceit deluded, disappointed, outwitted: Haydn’s L’Infedeltà Delusa

Infidelity, Deceit deluded, disappointed, outwitted: Haydn’s L’Infedeltà Delusa

Haydn's operlet resists a disappointing turn in the weather to shine in New Chamber Opera's summer production.

Event Date(s): 19th Jul 2014

Location: The Warden's Garden, New College, Oxford

Reviewed by: Peter Schofield

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Handel’s Social Network: The Burlington Circle

Handel’s Social Network: The Burlington Circle

Making the most of the intimate setting of the 1901 Arts Club, Baroque Encounter explore Handel's residency at Burlington House.

Event Date(s): 17th Jul 2014

Location: 1901 Arts Club, London

Reviewed by: Hannah Templeton

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