Page 4 - Resurrezione Coverage Book

9 May 2021

A Life On-Line: reinventing Josquin, rare late Richard Strauss, early Handel on
TV, Sir John Eliot Gardiner in Elgar, Britten & Tippett
Labels: A Life On-Line

Josquin: Mille Regretz - Ella Taylor, William Towers, Jorge Navarro Colorado, Richard Dowling, Stephan Loges - English Touring Opera
(taken from live-stream)

This week began and ended with strikingly modern stagings of early music,
Josquin from English Touring Opera and Rameau from Mannheim, we also
caught early Handel on Sky Arts, rare late Richard Strauss and Nino Rota in
symphonic mode from the London Symphony Orchestra, and Sir John Eliot
Gardiner conducting the Philharmonia in Elgar. The character of Phaedra was a
feature too, cropping up in Rameau's Hippolite et Aricie and in Britten's very
different late cantata.

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Over on Sky Arts, Handel's La Resurrezione was broadcast in a new film made at St John's Smith
Square with Harry Bickett directing the English Concert with Danielle de Niese, Lucy Crowe,
Lawrence Zazzo, Hugo Hymas and Brindley Sherratt. Handel's 1708 oratorio is something of a rarity
in the UK, though it crops up more often in the rest of Europe. It is rather intriguing, Carlo Sigismondo