‘Tis Nature’s Voice
Academy of Ancient Music
Bojan Čičić, Laurence Cummings
Barbican Hall, 30 June 2023

Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture Op.26;
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 ‘Pastoral’

The Academy of Ancient Music concluded its 2022/3 season, ‘Tis Nature’s Voice, with a venture into the early Romantic era, a suitable continuation of the theme of their opening concert, Hadyn’s The Seasons. They promised “thunderstorms, sea spray, nightingales and country dances and other beauties of nature as interpreted romantic style”. For those not used to music of the romantic era played on period instruments, this must have been a revelation. Indeed, it might also have been a revelation for some in the AAM as most of their repertoire stops before Mendelssohn and Beethoven.

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