Senās mūzikas festivāls 2020 / Antonio Vivaldi GADALAIKI

Antonio Vivaldi, Seasons

Kristīne Balanas, violin
Sinfonietta Rīga
Conductor Andris Veismanis

Programme: Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Georg Philipp Telemann, Antonio Vivaldi

Once again, the closing event of the Early Music Festival will be Antonio Vivaldi’s violin cycle The Four Seasons – one of the most popular classical opuses that has seen countless performances and interpretations across the globe. The four violin concertos were first published in 1725 in a collection named Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione or The Trial of Harmony and Inventiveness. And indeed, this music never lacks harmony nor inventiveness – Vivaldi had a lot of fun with depicting scenes from nature and everyday life and putting them down as instructions on the score. Coded into the music is a temper and fullness of colours that lets the imagination run freely but it does require a brilliant technique of performance and lively musicality. This time, alongside the orchestra Sinfonietta Rīga lead by the conductor Andris Veismanis, this technique and musicality will be showcased by the excellent violinist Kristīne Balanas – the Latvian Grand Music award laureate with an international career in full bloom.
In the opening of the evening, the well-versed Early music conductor Andris Veismanis with the experienced chamber orchestra will illuminate the pearls of 17th and 18th century music. Alongside the French rococo composer Jean-Philippe Rameau’s suite from his mythical and adventurous opera Platée, the audience will hear the friend of Bach and Händel - Georg Philipp Telemann with his Concerto for 2 Flutes, and the overture from the famous Christoph Willibald Gluck opera Orfeo ed Euredice, as well as the Lully-inspired Bohemian master Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer’s Suite No. 1