'Antonio Vivaldi'

The music of the Baroque Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi opens the 2019-2020 season of the Fundació Studium Aureum. This first concert is directed by the director and violinist Ramon Andreu, who also acts as a concertmaster and with Guillermo Femenias (laud) as a soloist.

The program consists of Concerto in Sol minore per cordes and continu RV 157, Concerto per a liuto in Re maggiore RV 93 and Le quattro stagioni, paradigm of programmatic music. This set of four concerts for violin and string orchestra illustrates the seasons, describing the sound, environmental and pictorial landscape characteristic of each one of them. Antonio Vivaldi (Venice, 1678-Vienna, 1741) composed them around the year 1721 and was published in Amsterdam four years later by the publisher Michel-Charles Le Céne.

Half an hour before the Studium Aureum concert, the composer Mercè Pons will give a talk about the composer and of the works.

Program:
Concerto in Sol minore per cordes and continu RV 157
I. Allegro
II. Largo
III. Allegro

Concerto per a luto in Re maggiore RV 93
I. Allegro giusto
II. Largo
III.Allegro

Le quattro stagioni
4 concerti per violino, archi e continuo da Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione Op. 8.
Concerto No. 1 in mi mayor, Op. 8, RV 269
La primavera (Spring)
I. Allegro
II. Largo e pianissimo sempre
III. Allegro pastorale

Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 8, RV 315
L'estate (Summer)
I. Allegro non molto
II. Adagio e piano - Presto e forte
III. Presto

Concerto No. 3 in F major, Op. 8, RV 293
L'autunno (Autumn)
I. Allegro
II. Adagio Molto
III. Allegro

Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 8, RV 297
L'inverno (Winter)
I. Allegro non molto
II. Largo
III. Allegro

Orchestra:
Concertmaster / Director: Ramon Andreu
Violins: Alfredo Ardanaz, Ricardo Duato, Margalida Gual, Enrique Pastor, Xavier Pericàs, Lourdes Pons, Marta Saura
Violas: M José Gómez de la Vega, Fernando Villegas
Cello: Miquel Àngel Aguiló, Rosa Cañellas
Double bass: Francesc Aguiló
Clave: Marta Ambrós
Guitar / Lute / Tiorba: Guillermo Femenias