Blazing fiddles, Venetian elegance and off-the-scale energy: prepare for a sunburst of inspiration, as Adrian Chandler and La Serenissima toast the 300th birthday of Vivaldi’s La Cetra.
Genius loves flattery. In 1727, when Vivaldi dedicated his Concertos Op.9 to the Emperor Charles VI, he called them La Cetra (The Lyre) – a reference to the instrument played by Apollo, God of sunlight and music. Well, that’s one way to get a donor on side. What’s beyond question is that 300 years later, these dazzling violin concertos sing, dance and positively glitter with Venetian sunlight. It’s another barnstorming, life-affirming celebration of baroque brilliance from Adrian Chandler and the virtuoso players of La Serenissima – the group that has been “whipping up a storm with Vivaldi” (The Telegraph) since 1994.
Programme:
Vivaldi: Violin Concertos from La Cetra, Op 9:
Concerto No 1 in C, RV 181a
Concerto No 2 in A, RV 345
Concerto No 5 in A minor, RV 358
From Unpublished manuscripts:
Concerto No 2 in C, RV 189
Concerto No 6 for 2 violins in B flat, RV 526
Concerto for Strings & Continuo in G minor, RV 153
Concerto for Strings & Continuo in B flat, RV 165
Performers:
La Serenissima
Adrian Chandler violin/director
St Martin-in-the-Fields
La Serenissima: Here Comes the Sun!
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Blazing fiddles, Venetian elegance and off-the-scale energy: prepare for a sunburst of inspiration, as Adrian Chandler and La Serenissima toast the 300th birthday of Vivaldi’s La Cetra .
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