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Metronome, London Spitalfields music festival opened, by chance, with this beautifully performed and dramatic revival of baroque cantatas by Élisabeth Jacquet de La GuerreWith temperatures at Shoreditch Town Hall reaching a sweltering 41 degrees, Spitalfields music festival was forced to cancel the first event of its 50th anniversary season. As a result, this concert of rare baroque cantatas, simply staged and stylishly sung, was the inadvertent festival opener.Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre was quite a player at the court of…
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