{"id":1729,"date":"2014-05-25T09:54:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T08:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2014-05-25T09:54:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T08:54:09","slug":"baroque-opera-live-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=1729","title":{"rendered":"Baroque Opera Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/vivaldi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1730 alignright\" alt=\"vivaldi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/vivaldi-183x300.jpg\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/vivaldi-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/vivaldi.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Vinehall School Theatre, Robertsbridge, 24 May 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Linda Grace had drawn together a strong team who gave us a wide range of baroque music, much of it unfamiliar but none the less welcome.<\/p>\n<p>She opened with <i>Un certo non so che <\/i>from Vivaldi\u2019s <i>L\u2019Atenaide<\/i> and closed with Juditha\u2019s <i>Agitata infido flatu<\/i> from <i>Juditha Triumphans. <\/i>Though Vivaldi\u2019s operas are slightly more familiar to us thanks to Garsington Opera\u2019s revivals, it was good to hear from works that have yet to receive a fully staged modern performance.<\/p>\n<p>Baroque oratorio frequently has the same emotional impact as its operatic counter-part and we sensed this in Lin Wescott\u2019s singing of <i>Zerfliesse, mein Herze<\/i> from Bach\u2019s St John Passion and a fiery <i>Why do the nations? <\/i>from Richard Woodall.<\/p>\n<p>Tenor, Robin Green brought us Purcell\u2019s <i>I loved fair Celia<\/i> and a stirring <i>Fairest Isle<\/i> as we moved into the English baroque. Alongside these vocal items, Tim Willsone played Marcello\u2019s oboe concerto in D minor and a mellifluous flute accompaniment in Vivaldi\u2019s <i>Sol da te, mio dolce amore. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Works attributed to the baroque often prove to be nothing of the kind, and Cindy Gilham slipped in a delightful <i>Se tu m\u2019ami<\/i> which actually dates from the late 19<sup>th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most stylish performance of the evening came from Hiroshi Kanazawa who gave us a secure and very moving account of <i>Cara Sposa<\/i> from Handel\u2019s <i>Rinaldo. <\/i>The simplicity of approach and sensitivity to the musical line was very impressive.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout, accompaniment had been provided by Duncan Reid and Nigel Howard. A Roland digital harpsichord was used occasionally but most items were accompanied on the school\u2019s Bosendorfer. It is a very fine instrument, but it is hardly baroque!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vinehall School Theatre, Robertsbridge, 24 May 2014 Linda Grace had drawn together a strong team who gave us a wide range of baroque music, much of it unfamiliar but none the less welcome. She opened with Un certo non so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=1729\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1731,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}