| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 25-Mar-2013 St George's Bristol | Baroque ABCs: Musicians from the OAE and John Butt at St George's Bristol |
.jpg) It can’t be often that one of the world’s pre-eminent Bach scholar-interpreters teams up with one of the world’s most famous period instrument ensembles to give a concert dedicated to one of the world’s most celebrated composers in one of the world’s most renowned acoustics. Such a combination of exemplars makes for an eye-catching promotional poster and, more importantly, an ear-catching performance.Read full review... | |
| 12-Jul-2012 St George's Bristol | Soloists of Oxford Philomusica: Baroque music at St George's Bristol |
 Baroque music is pretty old, isn’t it? But the great thing is, you don’t have to have the advanced years of a Brandenburg Concerto to put it on. The Oxford Philomusica has been active for little more than a decade – and they rushed through the pouring rain to play at the similarly young St George’s Bristol. Both institutions have earned a solid reputation within the challenging commercial landscape that is “arts outside London”, and with a damp audience who were likely very familiar with the programme, I was glad to be in safe hands.
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| 10-Mar-2012 Birmingham Town Hall | Beautiful Bach in Birmingham with the OAE |
 Credit Eric Richmond, Harrison and Co.jpg) If you love Bach – and who doesn’t? – Birmingham was the place to be this weekend, for a delicious series of concerts, lectures and discoveries at the Town Hall and Symphony Hall under the heading ‘Bach: A Beautiful Mind’. For Laurence Cummings, it was a chance to come home, as he was brought up in the city and reminisced about his previous Town Hall performance, playing double bass at age 18 with the Midland Youth Orchestra.
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| 6-Jan-2012 Queen's Hall, Edinburgh | Brandenburg/Cantata Series I: Dunedin Consort at Edinburgh's Queen's Hall |
 There's nothing like a Brandenburg to blow away Christmas cobwebs. Alongside contrasting cantatas, the Dunedin Consort offered the 3rd and 5th from Bach's 1721 set of six concerti grossi. This made for a compact and nicely balanced programme, contrasting the sacred with the secular and vocal with purely instrumental timbres.
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