Event overview
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Conducted by Tim Hooper, the Sinfonia and Chamber Choir perform a joint concert of pieces they have been working on this term.
Mozart: Flute Concerto in G, K313 (with Tom Sargeaunt, soloist)
Handel: Harp Concerto (with Maria Pratiwi, soloist)
Vivaldi: 'Gloria', performed by Goldsmiths Chamber Choir
Handel's popular "Concerto Op. 4 No. 6 in B flat major" was originally a harp concerto (and is thus called "Concerto per la Harpa" in the autograph) and was performed in this version at its premiere in 1736, when it was inserted into Handel’s oratorio "Alexander’s Feast" in order to illustrate the harp playing of the Greek singer Timotheus.
Mozart's Flute Concerto was composed in Mannheim, early in 1778, and the work was probably performed there by Johann Baptist Wendling, the solo flutist of the Mannheim Orchestra, commissioned by a wealthy Dutch music lover, Ferdinand de Jean.
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi composed his 'Gloria' in Venice, probably in 1715, for the choir of the Ospedale della Pietà, an orphanage for girls (or more probably a home, generously endowed by the girls' "anonymous" fathers, for the illegitimate daughters of Venetian noblemen and their mistresses). The Ospedale prided itself on the quality of its musical education and the excellence of its choir and orchestra. Vivaldi, a priest, music teacher and virtuoso violinist, composed many sacred works for the Ospedale, where he spent most of his career, as well as hundreds of instrumental concertos to be played by the girls’ orchestra. This, his most famous choral piece, presents the traditional Gloria from the Latin Mass in twelve varied cantata-like sections.
Painting of Vivaldi by Francois Morellon La Cave
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 7 Dec 2012 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm |
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