| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 14-Dec-2012 St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch | A puppet little match girl passion at Spitalfields Winter Festival |
 December in London doesn’t just mean wall-to-wall carol singing and the Messiah. It also means Spitalfields Music Winter Festival, which can be relied upon to programme something novel for the festive season while still not skimping on the mince pies. Friday night saw the innovative vocal ensemble I Fagiolini perform a remarkably diverse selection of pieces ranging from one by the late Renaissance composer Michael Praetorius, via Bach’s motet Jesu, meine Freude, to David Lang’s the little match girl passion (2007).Read full review... | |
| 18-Mar-2012 Queen's Hall, Edinburgh | Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus: Poulenc and Bach |
 I've never really hit it off with Poulenc's Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence (1938-9). This has been both a disappointment and a surprise as I am a fan not only of choral music, but also of Poulenc. Would it be placing too much hope in the SCO Chorus and the phenomenon of live music to turn this situation around?
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| 3-Oct-2011 St John's Smith Square | St. John's Smith Square, Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists/ Gardiner/ Debretzeni |
| Bach, Biber, St. John's Smith Square. Clever juxtapositions, and they worked. The programmer of this concert - by the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Solists under Sir John Eliot Gardiner - had a neat thought, to place Bach's six Motets (BWV 225-230) into the former church in SW1. The building and the motets date from the same decade, the 1720's. Both are beautifully crafted, complex works of art which provide contexts for the act of worship. So far, so natural, then.
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