Italian virtuosity and fire with the Budapest Festival Orchestra

A delicate and sensitive musician, moreover, a top manager with a violin: Midori Seiler, the Japanese-Bavarian, world-famous artist comes to Budapest on October 23 to perform with the Budapest Festival Orchestra at the Liszt Academy. The audience is invited to listen to compositions by the virtuoso superstars of the 18th century, Antonio Vivaldi and Alessandro Scarlatti. The 31-year-old wonderful countertenor, Terry Wey will also be on stage. As a child he was a real prodigy who performed as a soprano soloist with the oldest choir of the world, the Wiener Sängerknaben. The experience will be complete with Baroque gestures, costumes and period instruments used by the orchestra.

Date, time: Ocotober 23, 2016, 7:45 PM

Venue: BUDAPEST (LISZT ACADEMY)

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Midori Seiler is an internationally-celebrated performer of early music, both as a soloist and as an orchestra leader. The BFO’s audiences will have two chances to meet her this season. The programme of her first concert consists of compositions by five late Italian baroque masters.

The virtuoso violinist, singer and composer, Tomaso Albinoni of Venice, did not compose professionally; his family’s financial background allowed him to live for many years without having to seek paid work. The only well-known piece of his significant oeuvre is the eternal baroque hit, the Adagio in G minor. The BFO will be performing the first piece from his Op. 2 collection, which he dedicated to the Duke of Mantua.

Baldassare Galuppi, who predominantly composed operas, had a professional connection to Vivaldi. His works display a mixture of the late baroque and classical styles.

The least known composer of the night is the Padua-born Giovanni Benedetto Platti. We will be performing the first piece from his concerto grosso series, which was adapted from Corelli’s violin sonatas.

Antonio Vivaldi was also born in Venice, and worked for decades as the music director of a girl’s orphanage while he won Europe-wide renown with his operas, his vocal and his instrumental works. He was largely forgotten after his death, and only rediscovered during the 20th century. He is the most frequently played baroque composer after Bach and Händel.

Alessandro Scarlatti was one of the greats of Italian baroque music, composing 40 oratorios, 115 operas and about 700 cantatas, in addition to many sacred and orchestral works. He composed the cantata performed in this concert in 1716.

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Source: http://www.bfz.hu/en/ – Budapest Festival Orchestra