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The Indian Queen at the Salzburg Festival review — too much control
...The choir is also superb, and the orchestra (especially the continuo group) plays well....
August 3, 2023
ReviewMusic
Rodelinda, Metropolitan Opera — opulent Handel dazzles
...Harry Bicket, the production’s original conductor, again leads a stylish, well-judged performance, apart from some overly aggressive playing by plucked continuo instruments....
March 15, 2022
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewMusic
Bajazet has its Royal Opera House debut after nearly 300 years
...Even so, this production never loosens its grip and conductor Peter Whelan, some irritatingly busy continuo work apart, keeps his small band well up to speed....
February 9, 2022
ObituaryDance
Clement Crisp — FT dance critic of 60 years who wrote with eloquence and wit
...generation of Oxford postwar undergraduates devoted to the theatre arts — the theatre producer Michael Codron and the critic Andrew Porter became his life-long friends, the latter when Porter was playing continuo...
March 2, 2022
ReviewMusic
Don Giovanni and Elektra at Salzburg — challenging art for difficult times
...Currentzis’s ensemble, musicAeterna, knows this repertoire inside out, and on top of it all, fortepianist Maria Shabashova leads the continuo group with magnificent wit and fire, endlessly surprising, ceaselessly...
July 30, 2021
ReviewAlbums
Bach Collegium Japan: Bach’s St Matthew Passion — a deeply felt performance
...This is in part thanks to the new organ that Suzuki has had built for the project (he came to Bach’s music as an organist himself), and which is used to give extra depth of sound to the continuo....
February 21, 2020
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewMusic
Joyce DiDonato is rapturous in Agrippina at the Metropolitan Opera, New York
...But his continuo group is overstuffed with plucked stringed instruments that often produce highly percussive, even brutal sounds in music better left to the harpsichord. ★★★☆☆ To February 29, metopera.org...
February 7, 2020
ReviewAlbums
Vivaldi: Complete Concertos and Sinfonias for Strings and Basso Continuo — energetic and well-recorded
...This new 4-disc boxed set from L’Archicembalo includes 51 concertos and sinfonias for strings and basso continuo, everything that has come down to us in those categories....
July 5, 2019
ReviewMusic
Così fan tutte, Royal Opera House — highly intricate, overly fussy
...Even the continuo fortepiano player did not leave them alone, turning every little twiddle of accompaniment into a full-scale concerto....
March 1, 2019
ReviewFilm
Jean-Luc Godard takes us down a cinematic rabbit hole with The Image Book
...Godard’s voiceover varies between a rumbling continuo and a manic whisper, selling admonition in cryptic prose reams, some quoted (Montaigne, Rimbaud, Conrad), some no doubt original....
November 29, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
Sicario 2: Soldado — macho mayhem on the US-Mexican border
...The music growls too: a daring continuo of doomy bass discords. And with so many blood-spraying deaths you should think of wearing a sou’wester....
June 27, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
Sciarrino, Tartini, Berio, Paganini — ‘technically dazzling’
...Michael Barenboim’s programme gives us a bird’s-eye view of Italian music for solo violin (the Tartini is played without any continuo accompaniment) over the centuries....
April 6, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
Opera Forward Festival, Amsterdam — grief, loss and a baroque Harvey Weinstein
...The slick modernity of Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw lends a visual edge to Audi’s production, but the acoustic is too dry for Christophe Rousset’s Les Talens Lyriques, the virtuosic cornetti and lush continuo...
March 27, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
Così fan Tutte, Drottningholm Opera, Sweden — extremely enjoyable
...Perhaps the most heroic role is taken by the fortepianist Luca Oberti, who fills out the continuo accompaniments with idiomatic and frequently delightful musical references to the other operas....
August 8, 2017
ReviewLife & Arts
La Clemenza di Tito at Salzburg Festival — unforced diversity and a new sound for Mozart
...Currentzis places his continuo group at the heart of his ensemble, with Maria Shabashova’s inspired fortepiano as the glitter-glue that holds everything together, and Israel Golani’s archlute and baroque...
August 7, 2017
FT Live
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Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewLife & Arts
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro — review
...Nézet-Séguin’s Mozart opera series with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe keeps up the character of its predecessors — trim orchestral playing, extra vocal decorations and a restlessly inventive fortepiano continuo...
July 15, 2016
Life & Arts
A voyage round the cello
...He runs a cello continuo clinic in Scotland and will be bringing a day-long version of that to Kings Place, as well as a session exploring Bach’s solo cello suites....
January 3, 2017
ReviewLife & Arts
Earth Diver, Ruhrtriennale, Essen — ‘Breathtaking power’
...Schütz’s ethereal sacred motets, underscored by the solid continuo group of Belgium’s B’Rock orchestra, remind us that for all our technological advances, precious little has changed when it comes to the...
September 22, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
Purcell: Twelve Sonatas of Three Parts — review
...The continuo, alternating between organ and harpsichord plays nicely with variety of mood....
January 22, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
Veremonda, l’amazzone di Aragona, Schwetzinger Festspiele, Rokokotheater, Schwetzingen, Germany — review
...The result is a lush continuo sound bolstered by sensual combinations of melodic instruments, played with grace and refinement....
May 3, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
Bach Collegium Japan, Barbican, London — ‘Softly spoken’
...For the consoling “Bekennen will ich seinen Namen”, all that survives of cantata BWV200, mellifluous countertenor Robin Blaze sang to an accompaniment of two violins and continuo, but it proved enough to...
April 11, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
Neujahrskonzert, Philharmonie Berlin: ‘A fine sense of balance’
...The Akademie für Alte Musik is a first-class ensemble with a wonderful continuo section, and the RIAS Kammerchor is equally admirable — even when required to perform entirely by memory....
January 4, 2016
FT AlphavilleIzabella Kaminska
Reserve management and the DAO
...This decay either has to be happily suffered by users (i.e. users have to get used to continuos par value depreciation — akin to a negative interest rate — on the basis that uninvested reserves of real goods...
June 14, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, Barbican Hall, London — Review
...And with barely a dozen musicians on stage, and just strings beyond a continuo group of theorbos, harp and harpsichord, we only rarely got a sense of the music’s full emotional power or potential for sensuous...
September 30, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
Sémélé, Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, California
...Wind registration occasionally faltered, but the continuo group wanted nothing in delicacy. What Sémélé needs is a fully staged production, but I’m not holding my breath. americanbach.org...
August 18, 2015

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