Jonathan Cohen
News
- 02 May 2024
Jonathan Cohen appointed Artistic Advisor to London Handel Festival as Arcangelo becomes Principal Ensemble in Residence
Read full article - 14 November 2022
Jonathan Cohen appointed Artistic Director of Handel and Haydn Society
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Jonathan Cohen makes his conducting debut at the Concertgebouw
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Press
Handel & Haydn Society
Jordan Hall, BostonDec 2022Cohen achieved visceral excitement by exploring the subtle details that make the music sing. In concertos by Zelenka and Handel, he worked like a sculptor, shaping passages between the orchestral and solo forces, paying agile attention to every arc and turn.
- ArtsFuse
- 16 December 2022
Alcina
Glyndebourne Festival OperaJul 2022The accumulated power of the score is magnificently managed and driven by conductor Jonathan Cohen, with the old instruments of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in peak-period condition, dazzlingly pungent, light and airy, with a total sense of stylistic confidence. The production may be exhaustingly busy, but it entrances the audience, and provides Glyndebourne with another triumph in its sequence of Handel productions, certainly on the level of the famous Giulio Cesare back in 2005. This is the hit of the summer opera season so far.
- The Telegraph
- 03 July 2022
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment play with considerable panache for Cohen.
- The Guardian
- 03 July 2022
Jonathan Cohen’s alert and lively conducting of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, whooping horns and all.
- The Financial Times
- 04 July 2022
St Matthew Passion
Royal Albert Hall, BBC PromsSep 2021Add to Arcangelo's voices and instruments (pictured below) a blazing constellation of British soloists, plus alert, vigorous but never unduly rushed direction from the ensemble's conductor-harpsichordist Jonathan Cohen, and this against-the-odds Proms season boasted another night to remember and to cherish. This evening was a special gift.
- The Arts Desk
- 10 September 2021
Theordora, BBC Proms
Royal Albert HallSep 2018Cohen’s interpretation was notable for its austere beauty. Dark instrumental textures added immeasurably to the sombre mood, while Arcangelo’s choir, carefully differentiating between Roman hedonism and Christian severity, sounded glorious, despite the occasional blurring of detail in the echoey acoustic. Cohen’s judgment of the work’s measured dramatic momentum was wonderfully assured
- The Guardian
- 10 September 2018
The Scottish Ensemble
St Giles Cathedral EdinburghOct 2019Most striking, however, was the remarkable sense of controlled flamboyance from the Ensemble across both venues, under guest director Jonathan Cohen, who supplied some wonderfully florid contributions from the harpsichord, driving things on with abundant enthusiasm. This was high-energy playing, fresh and volatile.
- The Scotsman
- 18 October 2019
St Paul Chamber Orchestra
St Paul, USApr 2017...a scaled-down SPCO of 10 string players traced the sparely written textures of Pergolesi's intimate accompaniment. Cohen probed and guided the musicians from a mellow chamber organ, distilling an atmosphere of mournful contemplation and private grieving. Cohen, the most recent addition to the SPCO's roster of artistic partners, earlier had shown why he is renowned as a specialist in baroque music, in a probing, sensually shaped reading of Locatelli's Concerto Grosso in E-flat, Op. 7
- Star Tribune
- 16 April 2017