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Saturday 15 May, 4.30pm
St. John's, Smith Square

The Birth of the Trio Sonata

Ensemble sonatas from 17th-century Italy
The trio sonata was the dominant chamber genre of the Baroque - the string quartet of its age. Its origins in the growing instrumental virtuosity and dramatic flair of early 17th-century Italy at the hands of composers such as Castello, Marini and Uccellini, and its later successful but recognisably personal adoption by Purcell among others, are explored by this fun-loving multinational ensemble from Denmark, whose affable and imaginative performing style has brought exciting new life to the string music of the Baroque.

'An ecstatic swinging jam-session... The ensemble-playing is of the highest class...'
Politiken, Copenhagen

Tickets £15, £12, £9, £6
 Buy a ticket for both concerts on 15 May and receive a voucher for a free glass of wine
Booking

Saturday 15 May, 6.15pm
St. John's, Smith Square

Monteverdi the Modern Man

Following its inauguration by Sir Nicholas Kenyon in 2009, the Festival's keynote speech is given this year by Robert Hollingworth, director of vocal group I Fagiolini, whose highly acclaimed innovative theatre-piece The Full Monteverdi has been seen around the world, and who are currently recording a new Monteverdi series on CD. Here he discusses his passion for the composer, examining other modern attitudes to his music and recent developments in performing style. 

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Tickets: Free ticketed event
Booking

Saturday 15 May, 7.45pm
St. John's, Smith Square

Gods, Emperors and Angels

Vivaldi concertos for winds and strings
The UK's leading Vivaldi specialists make their Festival debut in a colourful programme of wind and string concertos by the ever-popular master, who was not only the man every musical visitor to Venice wanted to meet, but whose influence in the earliest days of the solo concerto has touched every composer to have worked in the genre since. As well as the well-known violin concerto L'amoroso, there are double-violin concertos from the two sets known as La cetra, and rarely heard concertos for recorder and bassoon.

'This British group matches up to the standards the Italian Vivaldians have set in recent years, in performances which are richly communicative and committed.'
MusicWeb International

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