Baroque
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Marc Minkowski, BarbicanMonday, 08 March 2010
It always repays to push a world-class orchestra beyond their comfort zone. The BBC Symphony's sound emerged from the refashioning hands of period specialist Marc Minkowski like a naked body from a cold shower: convulsively invigorated and... Read more... |
Julia Fischer, Wigmore HallSunday, 14 February 2010
Is there a greater singleton's soundtrack than Bach's restless, tormented Three Partitas for Solo Violin? The works represent the extraordinary pinnacle of the violin repertoire and also the summit of Bach at his most chromatically and... Read more... |
Interview: William ChristieTuesday, 20 October 2009"It's mostly very clipped and formal, but parts of it have been getting wonderfully wilder and wilder in the last few years." William Christie, whom I’ve met several times in the last decade, is describing his famous French garden in La Vendée,... Read more... |
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Wigmore HallMonday, 21 September 2009Andrew Parrott, director of the Taverner Consort, once told me of a time he was playing harpsichord at the back of a largish orchestra. Confident that nothing he played would stand the remotest chance of being heard above the general cacophony, he “... Read more... |
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