| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 19-May-2013 Birmingham Town Hall | Violins galore with Vivaldi, Bach and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in Birmingham |
 Marco Borggreve.jpg) What a lovely way to round off a weekend, with some feel-good favourites from one of the world’s finest early music ensembles. Currently in their silver jubilee season, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra actually began to emerge a couple of years earlier than their official 1987 launch. Several students from the College of Music in Freiburg, fortified and inspired by glasses of New Year sparkling wine, had decided to form a group to research, experiment and play on Baroque instruments.Read full review... | |
| 13-Oct-2012 Concertgebouw: Main Hall | Frans Brüggen and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century in Amsterdam |
 Frans Brüggen led the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century in what proved to be a monumental afternoon of music. Ever true to the spirit of its namesake, this ensemble has dedicated itself since 1981 to the practical execution of works from the Baroque era. This particular program showcased works spanning a 25-year range, from Bach’s Orchestral Suite no. 1 in C major to Rameau’s orchestral suite from Naïs.
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| 20-Apr-2012 Queen's Hall, Edinburgh | Scottish Ensemble in Edinburgh: A journey backwards in time from Ligeti to Bach |
 There is something delightfully non-prescriptive about the word “ensemble”, admitting of many combinations of performers and types of music. It was this notion of flexibility that came to the fore in Friday night’s concert in the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh. In this, the last of the Scottish Ensemble’s series of creative, time-travelling programmes, we journeyed from Hungary in the 1960s to Cöthen in the early 1700s.Read full review... | |
| 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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