Review: Le Jardin Secret ****
Published Date:
11 July 2008
By David Denton
The theme of this year's York Early Music Festival traces the impact exiled musicians and composers brought to Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, the programme from Le Jardin Secret looking at London of the time.
This highly promising group were the winners of last year's Early Music Network International Young Artists' Competition, the rather unusual combination of theorbo, cello, harpsichord and soprano used in many inventive combinations to craft an engaging concert.
They used the very good idea of grouping together pieces by composers to produce much longer works, interspersing those with single solo items, the theorbo Chaconne in D by the emigre from Moravia, Gottfried Finger, a most engaging piece played with a nice lightness of touch by Sofie Vanden Eynde.
Works from Handel operas and the cantata, La Lucrezia, found the soprano of Elizabeth Dobin well attuned to the stylistic qualities though a little short of musical colour. And it was the cello of Marian Minnen that impressed in Geminiani's Sonata III in C major.
Unitarian Chapel, York
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