Page 4 - Resurrezione Coverage Book
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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.


                                                           …

               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
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