| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 25-Oct-2012 Southbank Centre: Queen Elizabeth Hall | Roger Montgomery wows with Mozart and the OAE |
 If Mozart were to apply for a job in this day and age, at the very top of his CV would read “Adaptable and able to turn my hand to any task”. Tonight’s concert – superbly performed by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to a full house at the Queen Elizabeth Hall – demonstrates the composer’s creative resourcefulness when it came to getting a commission, delivering the goods and ultimately, making money. All the while, the pressures of a crowded market, demanding patrons and an overbearing father were never far away.
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| 8-Sep-2011 Star of Kings | Purcell in a pub |
 Put on a good quality string trio at a London classical music venue and there's one thing you can be sure about: the average age of the audience is going to be over 60. But then the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment weren't exactly playing by the usual rules. For this "mini Night Shift" concert, they sent three of their number, violinists Maggie Faultless and Matthew Truscott and cellist Robin Michael, to a pub a few yards away from the OAE's offices at King's Place, charged with playing the music of Purcell and others to new audiences in a different environments.
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