August 26, 7.30pm
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Violin
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini, Recorder & Conductor
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in G Minor for Strings and Basso continuo, RV 157
Luca Francesconi (1956)
“Spiccato il volo” for Solo Violin
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in C Major for Violin, Strings and Basso continuo, RV 191
Simone Movio (1978)
“Incanto XIX” for Solo Violin
Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988)
“L’Ame ouverte” for Solo Violin
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in E-flat Major for Violin, Strings and Basso continuo, RV 253 “La tempesta di mare”
Aureliano Cattaneo (1974)
“Estroso” for Solo Violin
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in E Minor for 4 Violins, Strings and Basso continuo, RV 550
Giovanni Sollima (1962)
“Moghul” for Solo Violin
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in D Major for Violin, Strings and Basso continuo, RV 208 “Grosso Mogul”
Streamed live from the Saanen Church
For years, Patricia Kopatchinskaja has accustomed us to her not doing anything like others. The programme she presents here with one of the world’s leading period instrument ensembles, Il Giardino Armonico, fits perfectly into this dynamic: it brings Vivaldi’s concertos into dialogue with works for solo violin by contemporary Italian composers, most of which she has premiered. And what about Vienna in all this? The imperial capital is, as is often forgotten, the final resting place of the “red-haired priest”. He died there at the end of July 1741 in total destitution and general indifference. Legend has it that at the time of the ceremony reserved for the destitute celebrated in Saint-Etienne, there was a young boy named Joseph Haydn in the choir.