Dertig jaar geleden wierp een groep van nieuwsgierige musici uit Londen een kritische blik op het instituut ‘het Orkest’ en besloot van met een leeg blad te beginnen. Regels werden overboord geworpen. Een enkele dirigent de leiding geven? Dat nooit! Specialiseren in het repertoire van een bepaalde periode? Te beperkend. Een muziekstuk perfectioneren en daarna verder gaan met iets anders? Te lui. The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment was geboren.
En toen dit stel met de grappige naam eenmaal voet aan de grond
begon te zetten, deed men voor zichzelf een belofte. Men zwoor om vragen te
blijven stellen, aan te passen en uit te vinden voor zolang als men leven zou.
Het gebruik van authentieke instrumenten werd slechts één element
© Andrew Mellor, 2011 – vertaling, Impulse Art Management
PROGRAMMA
ENLIGHTENMENT 2.6 [03 February 2016]
Programma
17-18 Visions Illusions and Delusions
18-19 Life, Liberty and Pursuit
of Happiness
19-20 Salvation and Damnation
20-21 The Age of Reason
21-22 The Wilderness Pleases
22-23 Songs of Travel
1. Bach & C.P.E. Bach: Evening in the Palace of
Reason (Richard Tognetti) (QEH)
24 Sept – 13 October 2018,
9 or 11 October 2018 (QEH)
Dramatic musical narrative drawing on works such as:
J.S. Bach: Musikalisches Opfer BWV 1079
C.P.E. Bach: Concerti & Sinfonias
With the encounter between Frederick the Great and J.S.
Bach in Potsdam as the dramatic focus.
2. Handel: Samson (William Christie)
(RFH)
18 -30 October 2018
23 or 25 October 2018 (RFH)
Choir of the Age of Enlightenment
Samson (tenor) -
Dalila, Wife of Samson (soprano) -
Micah, Friend to Samson (contralto) -
Manoah, Father to Samson (bass) -
Harapha, a Giant (bass) -
Philistine Woman, Attendant to Dalila (soprano) -
Israelitish Woman (soprano) -
Philistine (tenor) -
Israelitish Man (tenor) –
3. Beethoven: 9th
Symphony (Marin Alsop) (RFH)
6 – 12 November 2018
11 November 2018 (RFH) matinee
Community Choir Project
soprano
mezzo
tenor
bass
4. Baroque: Programme TBC (John Butt)
25 November – 10 December 2018
6 December 2018 (QEH)
5. Gluck & Mozart: Arias programme (Magdalena
Kozena / Giovanni Antonini) (RFH / QEH)
1 – 16 February 2019
EITHER: 5 or 12 February 2019 (QEH) OR: 4 or 12 February 2019 (RFH)
Mozart: Symphony
No. 40 first movement.
Gluck: Di questa cetra in seno from Il Parnaso Confuso
Gluck: Orfeo, Dance of the Furies
Mozart: Giunse alfin il momento / Al desio di chi t’adora from
Figaro
Mozart: Symphony No. 40 second movement.
Gluck: Scena di Berenice
Interval
Mozart: Symphony
No. 40 third movement
Gluck: Se mai senti from Clemenza
Mozart: Symphony No. 40 fourth movement
Mozart: Parto, Parto from Clemenza
6. Brahms: Piano concerti (Sir András Schiff) (RFH)*2
11- 24 March 2019
EITHER: 11,12 March 2019 (RFH) OR:18,19 March 2019 (RFH)
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor op. 15, 43’
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 in B major op. 83, 49’
plus works of Schumann or Brahms (Serenades) to complete the programmes
7.
Bach: St John Passion (Sir Simon Rattle
/ Peter Sellars) (RFH)*2
25 March – 9 April 2019, RFH: 1 get-in, 2 performance, 3 performance
The Choir of the Age of Enlightenment (SATB /SATB)
soprano: Camilla Tilling
soprano: TBC
mezzo-soprano: Magdalena Kozena
tenor: TBC
tenor: Mark Padmore (Evangelist)
baritone: Roderick Williams (Jesus)
baritone: Christian Gerhaher (Pilatus, Petrus)
8.
Gilbert & Sullivan: Trial by Jury etc (John Wilson) (QEH)
15 – 30 April 2019
18 & OR 25 April 2019 (QEH)
Overture - The Gondoliers
Ring Forth Ye Bells (The Sorcerer)
Is Life A Boon (The Yeomen of the Guard)
Climbing over Rocky Mountains (The
Pirates of Penzance)
Minerva and Oh Goddess Wise (Princess Ida)
Overture – Iolanthe
As someday it may happen (The Mikado)
Never Mind The Why & Wherefore (HMS
Pinafore)
Painted Emblems of a Race (Ruddigore)
When the night howls (Ruddigore)
When I was a lad (HMS Pinafore)
Once More Gondoleri (Gondoliers)
9. Trial by Jury
The Choir of the Age of Enlightenment
The Learned Judge baritone - Simon
Butteriss
Angelina (the Plaintiff) soprano
Edwin (the Defendant) tenor - Ben Hulett
Counsel for the Plaintiff baritone - Richard Burkhard
Foreman of the Jury bartione
Usher bass
Associate
First Bridesmaid
10. Vivaldi & Panufnik: V42 & Venetian Serenade (QEH)
EITHER: (First Choice Period)
8 – 15 May 2019
13 May 2019 get-in, 14 May 2019 performance
OR:
(Second Choice Period)
23 – 30 May 2019
28 May 2019 get-in, 29 May 2019 performance
Venetian Serenade
Music: Roxanna Panufnik
Text: Simon Mundy
September 2018
Choreography: Will Tuckett
Videography: Mischa Ying
1 recorder or flute, 1 oboe, 1 trumpet, 1 horn or sackbut, 1 harp, 1 theorbo, 1
percussionist (optional), harpsichord, strings 4.4.3.2.1
Directed from the harpsichord
mezzo-soprano:
dancers: TBC
Soloist: Kati Debretzeni
Original Choreography: Henri Oguike
11. States of Independence (Vladimir Jurowski) (RFH)
27 May – 2 June 2019
29 May 2019 (RFH)
Sibelius: Finlandia op.26 TBC
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Sibelius: Symphony No.2, op.43
12.10.8.6.4 2.2.2.2 4.3.3.1
T P
violin: Alina Ibragimova
12. Maître Péronilla (Opera
Rara / Sir Mark Elder) (RFH)
Orchestration & Casting TBC: Opera Rara / Sir Mark Elder TBC