Sinfonia Toronto continues their twenty seventh season with Baroque & Past, a live performance of seasonal music on December 11. They’ll be joined by visitor artists The Ezra Duo, who will carry out Mendelssohn’s Double Concerto for Violin and Piano.
Maestro Arman feedback on the music in a press release.
“I’m actually wanting ahead to collaborating with the Ezra Duo on the gorgeous and engaging Mendelssohn Concerto for Violin and Piano. Our first three live shows are linked in a way. In November we adopted Dvorak with a youthful work by Janacek and for this excellent program we salute the younger genius of Mendelssohn once more, after his full of life 2nd Symphony opened our new season in September.”
The Program
After the opening Mendelssohn work, the remainder of this system options an emphasis is on melodic tributes to the vacation season.
This system in full:
- Mendelssohn: Double Concerto for Violin and Piano in D Minor
- Correlli: Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 8 (Christmas Concerto)
- Vivaldi: Sinfonia L’incoronazione di Dario
- Larry Strachan: Lament for Souls of Sauteurs
- Handel: Messiah — Overture and Pifa
- Jenkins: Palladio (Ontario Premiere)
Mendelssohn wrote his Double Concerto, often known as Concerto for Piano, Violin, and Strings in D minor, MWV O4, in 1823 on the tender age of 14. It was composed for a non-public live performance held on the household residence in Berlin, that includes his violin instructor and buddy Eduard Rietz. He would later modify the rating to incorporate winds and timpani, together with strings, and a public efficiency adopted later the identical yr.
Arcangelo Corelli was commissioned to put in writing his Christmas Concerto by Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, and it was revealed in 1714, after his demise. On the manuscript, he wrote Fatto per la notte di Natale, or “made for the evening of Christmas”. It’s not identified precisely when he composed the work, though there’s documentation of his efficiency of a bit with an analogous title in 1690 for his then new patron.
Vivaldi’s Sinfonia L’incoronazione di Dario is the overture from his opera L’incoronazione di Dario, RV 719. The sinfonia is written in three actions, and has develop into a piece that’s usually carried out alone. It’s the composer’s seventh opera, written in 1717 for the carnival season in Venice.
Winnipeg composer Larry Strachan’s Lament for the Souls of Sauteurs is the composer’s musical reflections on the occasions that passed off in Grenada in Might 1650. French invaders ambushed and killed a gaggle of about 40 Indigenous Caribbeans, and several other extra jumped from a cliff about 87 metres excessive to flee the identical destiny. The city the French established there was named Sauteurs, which interprets as “jumpers”. Larry Strachan’s household roots are in Grenada, and he wrote the work after visiting the city, now with a inhabitants of about 1,300.
Handel’s beloved Messiah (1741) is seen as a choral work, however it consists of beautiful instrumental actions as effectively. The overture or sinfonia is written within the fashion of a French overture, whereas the Pifa, comes across the center of Half I. The latter is usually known as the pastoral symphony.
Welsh composer Karl Jenkins wrote Palladio for string orchestra in 1995. The title refers to Andrea Palladio, an architect who was distinguished within the Venetian Renaissance. The work is written in three actions, within the type of a concerto grosso. In his notes, Jenkins feedback on the mathematical principals of concord included by the Renaissance architect that had been impressed by classical antiquity. Jenkins’ Palladio is the music used within the well-known A Diamond is Endlessly commercials by the De Beers firm.
The Ezra Duo
The Ezra Duo is Jacob Clewell (viola/violin) and Sasha-Bult Ito (piano). The duo met in 2016 as pupil at The Glenn Gould College, and have since gone on to tour North America extensively, together with performing coast to coast in Canada.
Laureates of the 2018 Città di Pinerolo e Torino – Città Metropolitana Worldwide Chamber Music Competitors in Turin, Italy, the Ezra Duo took residence first prize on the 2019 Arcady Rising Artist Competitors.
They’ve carried out recital excursions within the US and Canada of their Girls in Music and Artwork of the Duo packages in 2019, and their Colorfully Modern program in 2022. The duo appeared in New York’s Carnegie Corridor in 2017, and carried out on the Royal Ontario Museum as visitor artists of the G7 Summit in 2018.
The Ezra Duo are additionally devoted to music schooling, and have given masterclasses at Berry Faculty, the College of Tulsa, and for the Albuquerque Youth Symphony. They’ve additionally served as visitor instructors at Harding High quality Arts Academy in Oklahoma. The duo are co-artistic administrators of Florida’s Emerald Coast Chamber Music Pageant.
The Live performance
Baroque and Past takes place on December 11 at Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre.
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