A Cello in Italy
From Antonio Vivaldi to Giovanni Sollima, three centuries of Italian music echo one another, with the radiant and virtuosic cello of Anastasia Kobekina as a narrator through time. Vivaldi blends brilliance with a festive spirit, much like Sollima’s Concerto perduto (“lost concerto”), in which, in 2021, he imagined a new work based on fragments of a cello concerto by the “Red Priest,” carefully preserved in Venice. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Charles Avison extend, in their own way, the virtuosity, clarity of form, and expressive freedom of the Italian Baroque, while opening the path toward the more sensitive language of the Galant style.
Programme
VIVALDI, String Concerto in G minor RV 156
VIVALDI, Cello Concerto in D minor RV 419
AVISON, Concerto Op. 6 No. 3 in D minor
SOLLIMA, Il concerto perduto
STRAVINSKY, Suite italienne (arr. Benjamin Wallfisch)
C.P.E. BACH, Cello Concerto in A minor Wq. 170
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