VIVA VIVALDI!

Bristol Choral Society and the Bristol Ensemble

7.30pm

Saturday 15 June 2013

Bristol Cathedral

Kyrie
Gloria
Dixit Dominus
‘Summer’ from The Four Seasons

Adrian Partington Conductor

Roger Huckle Violin
Warwick Cole Harpsichord

Llio Evans Soprano
Eleanor Stowe Soprano
Olivia Gomez Alto
Peter Harris Tenor
Alex Jones Bass

If Venice was a must-see destination on the 18th century Grand Tour, then its orphanage of the Pietà was the must-hear jewel in the city’s musical crown. One contemporary observed that the young ladies there sang ‘like angels and play violins, flutes, oboes, organ, cello and bassoon: there is no instrument so large that it could frighten them’. Nor were they frightened by the demands of the music specially composed for them by Antonio Vivaldi.

For our last concert of the season we set the Venetian vitality of the Gloria (RV589) in the context of other works written for the Pietà including the glorious double-choir and double-orchestra Dixit Dominus (RV594).

Tickets: £22, £17 (reserved), £14, £10 (unreserved), under 25s £5, concessions available