sinfonia ViVA in Derby

Wednesday 21st April 2010 at 7.30pm
Assembly Rooms, Derby
Tickets: £17 to £26
Box Office: 01332 255800
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• Vivaldi: Overture to L'Olimpiade
• Emily Hall: Chords from various (Orchestral Short)
• Bach: Violin Concerto in G minor
• Telemann: Overture in C 'Water Music'
• Piazzolla: Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
• Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.3

An Orchestral Short commissioned by sinfonia ViVA features in this programme which brings a touch of present-day reflection to a generous helping of gems from the established repertoire, with sinfonia ViVA and Principal Conductor André de Ridder joined by exciting soloist Thomas Gould (violin).

Vivaldi was the first composer of many to take the Metastasios' original L'Olimpiade (a love-story text based around the ancient Olympic Games which was written and used in Caldara's opera of 1733) as a stimulus for his own musical interpretation, and tonight we hear the Overture to L'Olympiada which, composed in 1734, followed hot on the heels of the original. Emily Hall is the composer of tonight's brand new Orchestral Short, Chords from various. Emily has become recognized as one of the UK's most exciting and individual voices. The ability to absorb a wide range of influences and sounds into her music has meant that her musical landscape lies beyond the strictly classical scene with electronica and song being explored in combination with chamber and orchestral works. Baroque-master Bach features next, with the splendid Violin Concerto in G minor, re-worked for violin (as the intended original instrument) - the actual BVW 1056 having been for harpsichord. Telemann's Overture in C 'Water Music' of 1723, written in commemoration of the centenary of the Hamburg port, is less an 'alternative' to Handel's work and more a delightful evocation of wind and waves in its own, rather different right. Argentina-born Astor Piazzolla, who died in 1992, is regarded by many as the pre-eminent composer of tango music during the second half of the last century. The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (Cuatro Estaciones Porteno) is a collection, or perhaps collage is a better description, of four tangos written a quarter of a millennium after Vivaldi's Four Seasons. And finally, back to Bach and the third of his six eponymously-dedicated Brandenburg Concertos composed in the six year period between 1711 and 1723, No.3 being for string ensemble.

Supported by Rolls-Royce plc, Derby City Council, Derby LIVE, Orchestras Live and Arts Council England