Vivaldi Concertos by Candlelight: with the London Concertante at St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh on Friday 22nd June 2018

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Vivaldi Concertos by Candlelight

with the London Concertante

Part of the London Concertante by Candlelight 2018 Series

Add to my Calendar 22-06-2018 20:00 22-06-2018 22:00 36 Vivaldi Concertos by Candlelight Britain’s busiest Chamber Ensembles venture to St Giles' Cathedral with an evening packed full of Baroque favourites. London Concertante was founded in 1991 and has gone on to garner an outstanding international reputation. Alongside regular series of concerts at St. Martin-in-the-Fields and Southwark Cathedral, the ensemble also performs across the length and breadth of the UK. International tours have taken them to the USA, Spain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, Finland, and they will be touring to Italy and again to Spain later in the year. Their numerous recordings receive regular airplay on global radio stations, and has helped to secure their position at the forefront of Classical performers in the UK. The programme features a favourite of performers and audiences alike, Vivaldi’s “La Follia” with variations on the well-known 17th Century melody that translates in English as, ‘the madness’.  The piece rises and falls in intensity throughout with the variations running the gamut of emotions with changes in speed and mood along the way.  Alongside this, the programme includes Vivaldi’s iconic “Summer” from his Four Seasons, with its sheer virtuosity, amongst moments of haunting melancholy. In amidst the works of Vivaldi sees a piece by another Baroque maestro, J. S. Bach, and his magnificent Concerto for Two Violins, with its exciting, energetic opening and particularly sublime slow second movement If you don’t consider yourself ‘in the know’ about Mozart, Beethoven, or Bach, fear not, this is the orchestra for you. The London Concertante boasts a remarkable audience record in which an impressive 50% of spectators are first time classical concert goers! The London Concertante has its audience laughing at jokes, gasping at virtuosity, moved by gorgeous string playing, and leaving with a smile on their faces.  Tickets from £19 Available from: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/FEGLME “Beautiful music. Amazing experience.” – A happy audience member! (March 2017)“beautiful... [the] experience was fantastic... simply magical.” – Another happy audience member! (September 2017)“They play with tone as soft as velvet, bow strokes that really sing and a Romanticist's wide volume range” – Evening Standard         St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Giles' Cathedral
High Street
Edinburgh
EH1 1RE
Scotland

Friday 22nd June 2018
8:00 PM

Programme

Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto for 2 Violins in A minor, RV 522
Antonio Vivaldi – Trio Sonata no.12 in D minor 'La Follia', RV 63
Antonio Vivaldi – Violin Concerto in G minor 'Summer', RV 315
Johann Sebastian Bach – Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor, BWV 1043
Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto for 2 violins and cello in D Minor, RV 565

Performers

Ben Norris – Violin

London Concertante

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Programme Note

Britain’s busiest Chamber Ensembles venture to St Giles' Cathedral with an evening packed full of Baroque favourites.

London Concertante was founded in 1991 and has gone on to garner an outstanding international reputation. Alongside regular series of concerts at St. Martin-in-the-Fields and Southwark Cathedral, the ensemble also performs across the length and breadth of the UK. International tours have taken them to the USA, Spain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, Finland, and they will be touring to Italy and again to Spain later in the year. Their numerous recordings receive regular airplay on global radio stations, and has helped to secure their position at the forefront of Classical performers in the UK.

The programme features a favourite of performers and audiences alike, Vivaldi’s “La Follia” with variations on the well-known 17th Century melody that translates in English as, ‘the madness’. The piece rises and falls in intensity throughout with the variations running the gamut of emotions with changes in speed and mood along the way. Alongside this, the programme includes Vivaldi’s iconic “Summer” from his Four Seasons, with its sheer virtuosity, amongst moments of haunting melancholy. In amidst the works of Vivaldi sees a piece by another Baroque maestro, J. S. Bach, and his magnificent Concerto for Two Violins, with its exciting, energetic opening and particularly sublime slow second movement

If you don’t consider yourself ‘in the know’ about Mozart, Beethoven, or Bach, fear not, this is the orchestra for you. The London Concertante boasts a remarkable audience record in which an impressive 50% of spectators are first time classical concert goers! The London Concertante has its audience laughing at jokes, gasping at virtuosity, moved by gorgeous string playing, and leaving with a smile on their faces.

Tickets from £19

Available from: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/FEGLME

“Beautiful music. Amazing experience.”
– A happy audience member! (March 2017)

“beautiful... [the] experience was fantastic... simply magical.”
– Another happy audience member! (September 2017)

“They play with tone as soft as velvet, bow strokes that really sing and a Romanticist's wide volume range”
– Evening Standard

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