Venetian Gloria – Vivaldi: Gloria and Beatus Vir, Albinoni: Oboe Concerto, Neruda: Trumpet Concerto
- New Hall, Winchester College, Hampshire
Winchester Music Club is excited to present an evening of joyful and uplifting Baroque and early Classical music in the newly re-opened New Hall.
There will be a licensed bar serving from doors-opening at 6.45pm and during the interval.
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Vivaldi: Gloria
Vivaldi: Beatus Vir in B flat RV598
Albinoni: Oboe Concerto in D minor Op. 9 no. 2
Neruda: Trumpet Concerto in E flat
Nicola Corbishley – soprano
Sarah Shorter – alto
Andrew Knights – oboe
Julian Poore – trumpet
Winchester Music Club
Winchester Music Club Orchestra
Brian Howells – leader
Nicholas Wilks – conductor
While Vivaldi‘s exuberant Gloria needs no introduction, we have paired it with his rarely performed B flat setting of Beatus Vir. The works were written at much the same time, to be performed by the renowned choir and orchestra of women and girls at the Ospedale della Pieta in Venice where Vivaldi was musical director. Vivaldi’s deep knowledge of the female voice is demonstrated by the beautiful solos and duets in these works, to be sung by soprano Nicola Corbishley and alto Sarah Shorter, who is making her fifth return to WMC as a soloist.
Albinoni, a Venetian contemporary of Vivaldi’s, was the first Italian to employ the oboe as a solo concerto instrument. The D minor Oboe Concerto, his best-known work after the Adagio, is famous for its slow movement in which the oboe’s vocal-type line shows Albinoni’s considerable gift for melody. Andrew Knights will be our soloist.
Neruda was born in Bohemia and died in Dresden, an early Classical composer, following the Vivaldi concerto form, but in the new ‘gallant’ style. He composed some 97 works, many of which are now lost; of those that remain the Trumpet Concerto in E flat is his most popular. It was actually written for a valveless natural horn or corno da caccia played in the very high or clarino register. Both Bohemia and Dresden were famed for their schools of horn playing and Neruda must have had such virtuosi in mind when he wrote the extremely difficult solo part. Julian Poore will be meeting the challenge on a modern E flat trumpet, which well matches the range and sound of the original horn.
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