Graupner: Chamber Music
This recital at the Utrecht Festival succeeded more as an academic exercise than as a concert.
Kuhnau, Zelenka, Bach: Magnificat
An all-Maginificat programme at the Utrecht Festival by the Bach Collegium Japan.
Travels from Biber to Buxtehude
A charming performance of German chamber music at the Utrecht Festival.
Handel’s Tamerlano at the Salzburg Festival
An outstanding cast with intriguing stylistic contrasts assembled for a Salzburg concert performance of Handel’s 1724 opera.
L’Olimpiade
More productions of L'Olimpiade in this Olympic year, making a good case for opera seria.
Music in Oxford
Two outstanding musical events, both with connections to New College.
Le Nozze di Figaro
A setting of Mozart's beloved opera in the swinging sixties, with mixed results.
Handel’s Orlando
Handel's bizarre opera receives an equally bizarre postmodern staging, but a fine musical rendition too.
‘An Evening at Vauxhall’ with the English Concert
A superb concert of composers associated with the Foundling Museum, tied in with their current exhibition on Vauxhall Gardens.
L’Olimpiade
In this Olympic year, two very different performances of this libretto, with different results.