Browse: FestspielOrchester Göttingen (orchestra)

What Laurence Cummings produces each year with this band of period specialists...is something quite unique and wonderful. It’s a sound of zing, spring, heat and finesse; light-textured yet intense;... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2017 More…

[This recording] is conducted sagely by Laurence Cummings, whose direction is alert to the broad range of dramatic atmospheres, situations, characterisations and musical styles in the oratorio.... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2017 More…

Cummings has made a splendid contribution towards rehabilitating a piece which sits awkwardly beside the Handel we know much better. Sebastian Kohlhepp is an eloquent Evangelist and Tobias Berendt... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Cummings’s assured shaping of the excellent orchestra and the NDR Chorus’s strong yet balanced textures are particularly satisfying in the largest-scale brassiest passages of the Coronation Anthems…this... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2016 More…

While no-one nowadays would suggest that Handel's score needs such additions, Mendelssohn was a man of considerable taste, who made his changes with the best possible motives. In 'Hush ye pretty... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Nicholas McGegan secures a lithe and characterful account of the orchestral writing from his Göttingen Festival players, and the choral singing has plenty of vitality — BBC Music Magazine, June 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…