

Cecilia.Ĭonductor Jakub Hrůša conducts the S. Pianist Maurizio Pollini performs music by Schönberg, Nono and Chopin.

aimed at a broad audience particularly young people and preceded by "down-to-earth introductory chats that serve as straightforward, helpful listening guides." Concerts last an hour at most, without intermission. 85 from the opera Capriccio and Cajkovskji “Souvenir de Florence” op. Strauss Vier letzte Lieder, and Šostakóvič Symphony No. Cecilia orchestra, with soprano Asmik Grigorian, in The Shadow of the Tyrant, Ambrosini Dosàna nóva world premiere – new commission by Accademia di S. Cecilia, with soprano Marie Lys and contralto Lucia Cirillo, performing Vivaldi's Gloria. 20.30, Sala Sinopoli.įabio Biondi conducts the orchestra and chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di S. Pianist Grigory Sokolov performs music by Purcell and Mozart. Cecilia at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome. It also allows for the celebration of Dr Alberto Gentili, the Turin archivist who fell foul of Mussolini's anti-Semitic laws before his discovery of the Vivaldi archive was first heard in a special concert in 1939 - reviewed enthusiastically by, amongst others, the American poet Ezra Pound.April 2023 with Accademia Nazionale di S. The Gloria itself with its high energy opening, its beautiful choral writing and the borrowings from other composers in the later movements underlines Vivaldi's ability to compose for the forces at his disposal in Venice's convent, orphanage and music school the Ospedale della Pietà. It's thought that it was composed to mark a Venetian victory against the Turks exactly three hundred years ago in 1716.įrances Fyfield and her team, Nigel Simeone, the local scholar Corrado Rollin and the Soprano Francesca Lanza get the chance to explore the Vivaldi archive and find the Gloria bound in with a slew of other pieces. Now housed in the National Library of Turin, this new discovery propelled Vivaldi into the front rank of Baroque composers and in this country one of his most popular and appealing pieces is the choral classic the Gloria. That was all to change in the 1920's and 30's with the discovery of the composer's own archive which had been hidden from public view for over two hundred years.

Antonio Vivaldi's reputation in the early years of the 20th century rested on a limited amount of printed material, largely for the violin, some of it made popular by arrangements by Bach.
