The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
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October 4-10 2015: Scarlatti's La gloria di primaveraNovember 12-15 2015: Bach's Brandenburgs with Richard EgarrDecember 2-6 2015: Händel's Ode for St. Cecilia's Day and "Tra amplessi innocenti" and Purcell's Te Deum and Jubilate in D and Suite from Distressed Innocence December 19 2015: Händel's Messiah February 3-7 2016: Mozart's Concerto for Fortepiano No. 23 with…
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* Notes * Cellist Steven Isserlis (pictured left, photograph by Satoshi Aoyagi) is playing with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in the Bay Area starting with a performance at the SFJazz Center last night in San Francisco. The program is bookended with symphonies by Haydn, the first one being No. 57 in D major, and the second No.…
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* Notes * The 2013-2014 season of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra ended with Vivaldi’s only surviving oratorio Juditha triumphans devicta Holofernis barbarie. The work features a few of the more unusual Baroque instruments. Violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock played viola d’amore in “Quanto magis generosa” and clarinetist Eric Hoeprich played a chalumeau in “Veni, veni, me sequere fida.” Both…
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* Notes * Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra continued its 2013-2014 season with a set of performances entitled "Solomon in London." The San Francisco performance was again held at the SFJAZZ Center as Herbst Theatre undergoes a retrofit. The new venue lends the orchestra a more incisive sound, but Nicholas McGegan still gets his musicians to play with…
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* Notes * Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra's 2013-2014 season opened with a set of performances entitled "Pergolesi in Naples." The San Francisco performance was held at the SFJAZZ Center, which has an intimate feel and a dry, crackly acoustic. Maestro Nicholas McGegan described Pergolesi's Sinfonia from L'Olimpiade as having "vim and spritz," the Händel duets and arias…
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* Notes * Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra is currently performing Händel’s Teseo in the Bay Area. The opera certainly has some very silly moments, and this semi-staged version simply embraced the absurdity. The orchestra is set up around the two harpsichords, with Maestro Nicholas McGegan at one and Hanneke van Proosdij at the other. As a result,…
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October 2-6 2013: Pergolesi's Stabat MaterNovember 15-19 2013: Berezovsky, Facius, Fomin, Glinka December 6-10 2013: Stanley, Croft, Boyce December 14-15 2013: Händel's Messiah February 5-9 2014: C.P.E. Bach, Haydn March 5-9 2013: Muffat, Schmelzer, Schein, Biber, Benda, Bach, Telemann April 10-14 2013: Vivaldi's Juditha Triumphans Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra's 2013-2014 season was announced on today. Carolyn…
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Soprano Dominique Labelle (pictured left, photograph by Lino Alvarez) is currently singing with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. She spoke with The Opera Tattler on April 17, 2012 after rehearsal in Berkeley. How did you start singing?I started singing when I was very young. When I was about 13 I played flute, piano, and guitar. At the…
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October 5-7 2012: Purcell's Come Ye Sons of Art & DioclesianNovember 7-11 2012: Emanuel Ax plays Beethoven December 8-9 2012: Masaaki Suzuki conducts Händel's Messiah December 13-16 2012: Masaaki Suzuki conducts BachJanuary 12-16 2013: Four Seasons Tour February 13-17 2013: Haydn, J.C. Bach, Mozart March 15-20 2013: Rachel Podger, violin and leader April 10-14 2013:…
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* Notes * Harpsichordist Richard Egarr (pictured left, photograph by Marco Borggreve) is currently conducting Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in a program entitled "Masters of the English Baroque." The performance last night in San Francisco started with Händel's Symphony from Saul. The concertmaster and the first oboe played well together in the Larghetto. The oboe solo…
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