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“Arcangelo is a ‘super-chamber ensemble’ of soloists who respond to each other’s lines yet allow each instrument’s individuality to shine” SINFINI MUSIC PROGRAMME MARTIN RANDALL TRAVEL • MUSIC FESTIVALS 2016 Rivers have rarely sounded Mozart Violin Concertos as beautiful as this. with Vilde Frang FRIDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2016

pre-concert talk, 18.30 Donald Macleod, host Jonathan Cohen

concert, 19.30 franz (1732–1809) Symphony No. 47 in G major, Hob. I:47 (1756–1791) Violin Concerto No.5 in A major, KV219

Our music festivals present private concerts in appropriate historic settings. You’ll hear major 20-minute interval international musicians perform a thrilling range of music, and daily talks on the music. Accommodation is on board luxury river cruisers; the price includes travel, meals and more. Symphony No.29 in A major K201 All brought to you by the UK’s leading experts in cultural tours. Violin Concerto No.1 in B♭ K207

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Arcangelo is one of the world’s leading Category at the 2012 Gramophone Classical Music Awards. Other ensembles, bringing together exceptional recordings include ‘Enchanted Forest’ musicians who excel on both historical with on Deutsche Grammophon, ‘Amoretti’ with and modern instruments under the Christiane Karg (Mozart, Gluck) on direction of founder, artistic director Berlin Classics, Handel’s ‘Finest Arias for Base Voice’ with and conductor Jonathan Cohen. on Hyperion and ‘Monteverdi Sestina Madrigals’. ‘Bach Mass in B Minor’ numerous invitations to appear at major (2014) was voted Gramophone Editor’s festivals and concert halls in Europe choice, Sunday Times album of the week, and America including Wigmore Hall and received a 2015 Gramophone Award (London), Musikverein (Vienna), nomination. Releases in 2015 included Prinzregententheater (Munich), the Mozart violin concertos album with Philharmonie (Berlin), Vilde Frang which is the basis of tonight’s (Austria), Carnegie Hall (New York), concert and was number 1 in the uk e are thrilled to start off our Aldeburgh Festival (uk) and the specialist classical chart, “Scene!” an 2016 concert calendar with our London Edinburgh International Festival (uk). album of concert arias with Christiane concert and tour of Mozart violin Busy in the recording studio, Arcangelo Karg which was nominated Gramophone Marco Borggreve Wconcertos with the wonderful rcangelo’s players believe that has received five star reviews for Magazine Critics’ Choice for 2015, Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang. the collaboration required in chamber ‘Porpora cantatas’ and ‘Arias for and Bach violin concerti with Alina Vilde and I met on a tour of Asia in 2012 music, whether working in duos or Guadagni’ with on Ibragimova, also number 1 in the uk performing together these very pieces as a chamber orchestra, is the highest Hyperion; the latter disc won the Recital specialist classical chart. and I was struck by the beauty and expressionA of what it means to make elegance of her Mozart playing. Out We are most grateful to the If you like our work, I encourage you music. Setting it apart from other of this collaboration sprang the Mozart individual donors and to The Jerwood to drop by our website, and subscribe to ensembles, all performers are committed project, to record and tour these Charitable Foundation who supported our newsletter or become part of our to this chamber ideal and as such exceptional concertos together with this particular project. Particular thanks, circle of friends. We would be delighted Arcangelo attracts an outstanding Arcangelo. The resulting album, of also, go to Tom Corran, for his to keep you posted on our future plans! calibre of performers who already have which I am very proud, is available consistent and enlightened investment flourishing solo and chamber music on Warner Classics. in Arcangelo this and past seasons. As careers. These are performers of dazzling always, it is Arcangelo’s ongoing technical ability who also have a passion thank you generous supporters and donors who for faithful interpretation that goes far make it possible for us to realise our Thank you to Greta Hemus, beyond historical understanding. exciting artistic plans: our ongoing Adam Swann Alan Sainer and The Jerwood Formed in 2010, Arcangelo has Charitable Foundation for their projects, concerts and recordings are exploded onto the musical scene with support of the recording. greatly reliant on this wide network of verve and energy and has since enjoyed support. Thank you to all and every one!

4 | Arcangelo Mozart Violin Concertos | 5 PROGRAMME NOTES PROGRAMME NOTES

Mozart and the Violin it was as a precocious keyboard Augsburg trip: ‘In the evening at supper player that Mozart first made his name, I played my Strasbourg concerto [K216, accompanying his violinist father whose finale features a folk tune from Leopold on tours around the courts of Strasbourg], which flowed like oil.’ Europe as a child prodigy. Later, it was It is not known, however, whether the piano that helped establish the he composed his five violin concertos mature composer’s reputation in Vienna, initially for himself or for another soloist. as soloist in subscription concerts of his All five were written in Salzburg, increasingly masterful concertos for the Mozart’s home town, while he was instrument. Mozart was also a highly in the service of Archbishop Colloredo,

Ludwig Guttenbrunn accomplished violinist, but although and may have been intended for Unknown the violin played a crucial role in his Antonio Brunetti, leader of the Salzburg development as a composer – it was orchestra. Brunetti certainly played them as a violinist that he first encountered – it was at his request that Mozart wrote wolfgang amadeus mozart, the orchestral and chamber repertoire – a replacement finale for K207 and middle 1756–1791 surviving correspondence with Leopold movement for K219. Nos. 2–5 (K 211, 216, franz joseph haydn, 1732–1809 written in 1772, when haydn was compositional techniques by using Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, K219 suggests that it was not his favoured 218 and 219), and the ‘Haffner’ Serenade symphony no. 47 in g, hob. i:47 well established in his role as the an old organ pedal theme that is Violin Concerto No. 1 in B♭, K207 instrument. In October 1777 Leopold K250, which features a mini concerto for Kappellmeister at the court of the constructed such that it can be played wrote admonishingly to his son in violin within it, were all composed in Esterházy family, his Symphony No. 47 reversed. Yet the real experiment comes Augsburg: ‘When you were in Munich, a single year, 1775. The Violin Concerto falls in the early stages of what is often in the third movement, which has you probably did not practise the violin No.1 in B flat, K207, dates from two years known as the composer’s Sturm und earned the symphony the nickname, at all? But I should be sorry to hear this.’ earlier, and is probably Mozart’s first Drang (Storm and stress) period of Palindrome. After the minuet and trio Eager to defend himself, Mozart replied: original concerto composition. He had composition. The symphonies of this are played in full they are then played ‘After lunch I played two concertos, begun dabbling with concertos at the period are characterised not necessarily backwards, with Haydn’s cunning use improvised something and then played age of eleven, concocting orchestral by a particularly turbulent character or of orchestration and accents enabling the violin in one of Hafeneder’s trios. accompaniments for keyboard works by a minor key; rather, more broadly as part the listener to realise his trick. Haydn’s I would gladly have done some more other composers. By the time he came of Haydn’s incessant exploration of experiments continue into the finale, fiddling, but I was accompanied so badly to write K207, aged 17, he had gained vast expressive contrast and compositional distinctive for its daring harmonies that it gave me the cholic!’ His next few musical experience on his travels with sophistication in the symphonic genre. and sharp dissonances. Having not letters home are laden with conspicuous his father, most importantly in Italy, the No. 47 is a prime example of Haydn’s even completed half the number of references to his prowess on the birthplace of the concerto and where experimental approach to symphonies at symphonies that he would write in his instrument: ‘I played as if I were Vivaldi had established the norm in this time. Vigorous march-like rhythms lifetime, when considered in its context the greatest violinist in all Europe’; terms of the number of movements at the beginning of the first movement Symphony No. 47 clearly represents ‘everyone praised my beautiful pure (three) and the relationship between are immediately counterbalanced by a pivotal point in the composer’s tone’; a concerto performance was soloist and orchestra. Still widely a warm, lyrical melody with a much symphonic development. greeted with ‘general applauso’. As well performed in Mozart’s time, Vivaldi’s smoother triplet rhythm. The second as a concerto by Johann Baptist Vanhal, concertos were a sound model upon movement takes a different tone. Haydn Mozart evidently performed one of which he was able to base his own forays recalls much older sixteenth-century Ella Thorpe-Beeston, 2015 his own violin concertos on his 1777 into the genre. Another crucial influence

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on his concerto style was , the short timespan in which they were Mannheim, and capital cities with a medium in which Mozart was, by 1773, composed, display remarkable a thriving music scene such as , well versed, not least through his works development in inventiveness from first boasted numerous virtuosi that they for the Ducal Theatre in Milan. The to last. K207 is an accomplished and were eager to show off in works for operatic aria, with its range of emotions attractive, if relatively straightforward multiple soloists – sinfonie concertanti. and opportunities for soloistic virtuosity, debut; more technically demanding, Mozart wrote several pieces in this has obvious parallels with music for solo Concerto No.5 in A, K219, is thoroughly specialised mould, including works instrument and orchestra, and chimed assured and brims with originality. specifically for the celebrated Mannheim with Mozart’s desire for solo instruments A bold, symphonic opening movement, musicians, but by far the greatest of to imitate the human voice (clear from in which the violin’s first entry rivals that which, the Sinfonia concertante in E flat, many comments). The central Adagio of of any operatic diva, emerging to soar K364, for violin and , was composed K207 is characteristically operatic, with over the orchestra, is followed by in Salzburg in 1779, possibly to play its tender cantabile melody singing out a conversational Adagio (which Brunetti himself with Brunetti. If Mozart was symphony no. 29 in a, k201 from the graceful delicacy of develops seemingly simple ideas with over gently murmuring accompaniment. found ‘too studied’, whatever that may a good but unwilling violinist, he was the opening movement to the pulsating an array of sophisticated contrapuntal Mozart builds on concerto mean; Mozart obligingly composed more comfortable with the viola. energy of the fiery finale, this is a techniques. It is sharply contrasted models in architectural terms: each a substitute, K261). Mozart has fun in the It was on this lower-timbred, usually symphony that shows Mozart at by the pastoral-like tranquility of the of the three movements of K207 is in rondo finale, unexpectedly interrupting supporting instrument that he played a creative turning point in his symphonic second movement, with its muted sonata form, a quintessentially Classical its charming but sedate minuet with a in string quartets with Haydn, and career. Having returned to Salzburg from violins and limited use of wind development. The first, a lively and raucous ‘Turkish’ episode which uses for which he composed some of his a trip to Vienna where he failed to find instruments. In turn, the Menuetto elegant Allegro moderato, is typical music borrowed from his Lucio Silla most personal works, including the employment, the 18 year-old Mozart presents a sprightly and witty mood, of the galant rococo style, while the ballet from 1773 and asks the cellos and ‘Kegelstatt’ Trio K498 and the Sinfonia penned the symphony in the Spring building up to a hunting-style finale that scampering finale fizzes with virtuosic basses to play col legno – striking their concertante K364 which, like the E flat of 1774. The symphony is scored for an closely resemble those made famous by brilliance. This brisk movement, in 2/4 strings percussively with the wood Piano Concerto K271 of two years earlier, orchestra of strings with pairs of oboes Haydn’s finales. While Mozart might not time, was replaced at Brunetti’s request of the bow. The minuet returns as is a milestone of compositional maturity. and French horns, specifically to suit the have found employment in Vienna, the with a more substantial and aristocratic unassumingly as if this outburst had The majestic, joyful Allegro maestoso, needs of the orchestra of the Salzburg trip nonetheless proved invaluable to his rondo in 6/8 (K269). Interestingly, been a bizarre dream, and the concerto’s with its weighty orchestral introduction, court. The scoring inspired a much development as a composer as the city Mozart’s first original piano concerto, final phrase disappears with delightful is followed by a profound, intensely more chamber-like and intimate texture exposed him to Haydn’s latest premieres, K175, also composed in 1773, likewise nonchalance upwards into the ether. soulful Andante in C minor. The piece that gives the symphony a particular including the Sturm und Drang began life with a sonata-form finale that Like many provincial Austrian court concludes with a high-spirited rondo, individuality, such that the critic Edward symphonies. This Symphony’s great was subsequently replaced with a rondo; orchestras, Salzburg’s fielded few soloists as lively and exuberant as the Downes commented on the symphony’s dramatic scope suggests inspiration from Mozart never again wrote a concerto capable of performing a concerto. previous movement is melancholic ‘delicate texture, which seems closer the latest developments by Haydn, and finale in sonata form. Although the Mozart’s Salzburg compositions for and introspective. to that of a than of points towards the style of Mozart’s later five violin concertos do not scale the orchestra and soloist are therefore a symphony’. symphonies, all the more remarkable masterful heights of Mozart’s mature almost exclusively concertos for a single The first movement is a compos­ as the work of an adolescent. piano concertos, these youthful works soloist. In contrast, larger courts with Graham Rogers, 2015, itional tour de force, as Mozart uses are full of appeal and, especially given widely famed orchestras, notably with permission of Warner Classics a wealth of melodic material and Ella Thorpe-Beeston, 2015

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Mozart Violin Concertos Arcangelo

HAYDN SYMPHONY NO. 47 IN G HOB. I:47 SOLOIST VIOLIN I OBOE Vilde Frang Catherine Manson (leader) James Turnbull I. [Allegro] Iona Davies Holly Randall II. Un poco adagio, cantabile CONDUCTOR Florence Cooke III. Menuet & Trio Jonathan Cohen Tim Crawford HORN IV. Finale: Presto assai Jane Gordon Ursula Paludan Monberg Davina Clarke Nick Benz

MOZART VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 5 IN A K219 VIOLIN II I. Allegro aperto Michael Gurevich II. Adagio (principal second) III. Rondeau: Tempo di Menuetto James Toll Alice Evans Paula Muldoon MOZART SYMPHONY NO. 29 IN A K201 Beatrice Philips

I. Allegro moderato VIOLA II. Andante Simone Jandl (principal) III. Menuetto: Allegretto; Trio Katie Holmes IV. Allegro con spirito John Crockatt Aliye Cornish MOZART VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 1 IN B K207 ♭ CELLO I. Allegro moderato Piroska Baranyay (principal) II. Adagio Sarah McMahon III. Presto Tim Smedley

DOUBLE BASS Tim Amherst (principal) Luis Cabrera

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Jonathan Cohen, director Vilde Frang, violin

recognised worldwide for her Vilde has toured internationally with exquisite sound and virtuosity, Vilde her recital partner Michail Lifits. The Frang continues to develop into one duo have performed at venues including of the most sought after young violinists the , Musikverein, Youth Opera, a return visit to Les on the concert platform. In 2012 she was Philharmonie Berlin, Wigmore Hall, Violons du Roy, Orchestre National d’Ile unanimously awarded the Credit Suisse , Tonhalle Zurich, Bozar de France, , Young Artists Award which led to Brussels as well as part of the Vancouver Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Handel’s her acclaimed debut with the Vienna Recital Series, Boston Celebrity Series Messiah in Hong Kong and Mozart’s Philharmonic under and San Francisco Performances. Marriage of Figaro at Glyndebourne. at the . In March 2016 the duo will make their Jonathan Cohen founded the Regularly appearing with the debut at Carnegie Hall in New York.

ensemble Arcangelo, with whom he Marco Borggreve leading orchestras, her recent highlights Vilde Frang is an exclusive Warner performs high quality and specially have included performances with Classics artist and her recordings created projects. He tours with them the , Leipzig have received numerous awards. to exceptional halls and festivals such Gewandhaus Orchester, Netherlands She is the recipient of the Edison as Philharmonie Berlin, Vienna Radio Philharmonic, Philharmonic, Klassiek Award, Classic brit Award, Musikverein, Köln Philharmonie, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre Jakub Hrusa, Paavo Järvi, Esa-Pekka “Editor’s Choice by Gramophone onathan cohen is one of britain’s Ghent Cathedral, and Carnegie Hall de Paris, Symphonieorchester des Salonen and Yuri Temirkanov. Magazine, “Diapason d’Or” by Diapason finest youngJ musicians. He has forged New York. Recent highlights include Bayerischen Rundfunk and the nhk A keen chamber musician, Vilde Magazine, Deutsche Schallplattenpreis a remarkable career as a conductor, Bach’s b Minor Mass in Ghent, Symphony Orchestra. The 2015–16 regularly appears at festivals in Salzburg, and Award.

cellist and keyboardist. Well known for Handel’s Apollo e Dafne at Zankel Marco Borggreve season will include debuts with the Verbier, Lucerne, London Proms, Born in in 1986, Vilde his passion and commitment to chamber Hall New York and a German tour Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio Rheingau, Lockenhaus, George Enescu was engaged by at music Jonathan is equally at home in with Christiane Karg in June 2015. France, Orchestre National de Belgique, Festival and the Prague Spring Music the age of twelve to debut with Oslo such diverse activities as baroque opera Arcangelo are busy and much Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Festival. Between 2012 and 2015 Philharmonic Orchestra. She studied and the classical symphonic repertoire. in demand in the recording studio, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Vilde was a “Junge Wilde” artist at at Barratt Due Musikkinstitutt in Oslo, He is Artistic Director of Arcangelo, South Jutland Symphony, Hamburg partnering with fine soloists such Berlin and the ndr Sinfonieorchester the Konzerthaus Dortmund where she with at Musikhochschule Associate Conductor of Les Arts Symphony Orchestra, swr as Iestyn Davies (their disc ‘Arias for Hamburg. She will make her debut with created various artistic programmes and Hamburg and Ana Chumachenco at the Florissants and Artistic Director Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden, Guadagni’ won the Recital Category the and Sir Simon in 2016 she will be artist in residence at Kronberg Academy. She has also worked of Tetbury Festival. Seattle Symphony and performances at the 2012 Gramophone Awards), Anna Rattle as part of their annual Europa the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival. with as a Borletti- Recent concert highlights include of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro with the Prohaska, Christiane Karg, Christopher concert. She has enjoyed collaborations Amongst her collaborators were Gidon Buitoni Trust Fellowship winner 2007, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Les Het Residentie Orkest and the Dutch Purves and Vilde Frang. Recent releases with conductors including Vladimir Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, , and was a scholarship-holder 2003–2009 Violons du Roy, Budapest Festival National Opera Academy Chorus. include ‘Arias for Benucci’ with Matthew Ashkenazy, Mariss Jansons, Ivan Fischer, , Steven Isserlis, in the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation. Orchestra, ndr Radiophilharmonie Projects in the 2015/16 season Rose, and Bach violin concerti with Krzysztof Urbanski, James Gaffigan, Truls Mørk, Leif-Ove Andsnes, Vilde Frang performs on Hannover, Zürcher Kammerorchester, include Handel’s Agrippina with Irish . , Vasily Petrenko, Martha Argerich and the Ébène Quartet. a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume from 1864.

12 | Arcangelo Mozart Violin Concertos | 13 ANNOUNCEMENT RAVE REVIEWS FOR Wigmore Hall Residency, 16 – 17 Season VILDE FRANG RECORDING We are delighted to announce that Arcangelo will have a Residency at Wigmore Hall in the 16 – 17 Season VILDE FRANG MOZART

VIOLIN CONCERTOS 1 & 5 ARCANGELO SINFONIA 14 December 2016 JONATHAN COHEN CONCERTANTE nly 6 years old, arcangelo has j.s. bach ‘mourning’ quickly established itself with concerts cantatas and recordings that have drawn high praise lydia teuscher soprano classic fm the times bbc music magazine from critics and concertgoers for their alex potter counter tenor Ovivid interpretation of Baroque and andrew tortise tenor  Featured album ★ ★ ★ ★  Concerto choice Classical repertoire. thomas bauer baritone of the week ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No 1 in uk specialist Led by founder and Artistic Director “Frang’s playing is “Frang has the knack classical chart Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo’s playing 13 January 2017 extrovert and confident” of breathing life into has been described as filled with ‘quasi- j.s. bach harpsichord concerti the sunday times every note […] compelling improvisatory brilliance and fire’ bbc radio 3 classical album of the week listening throughout with (Gramophone Magazine, January 2015) and kristian bezuidenhout harpsichord cd review: album their sold out Wigmore Hall appearances ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ button-bright sound” of the week have been noted for their ‘…scrupulous 5 May 2017 “The results are fresh biber, schmelzer preparation, allied to a pleasure in the and invigorating” freedom of performance’ (The Times, 2014). and buxtehude chamber sonatas In this season Arcangelo will perform four concerts at the Wigmore Hall, the first sophie gent violin of which will be broadcast on bbc Radio 3. jonathan manson gamba Booking will open in line with Wigmore Hall’s booking period opening schedule. 21 July 2017 couperin and clérambault ECHO chamber sonatas KLASSIK-PREISTRÄGER Arcangelo 2015 sabine devieilhe soprano Concert Recording of the Year (Music up to and Including 18th Century)

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‘Jonathan Cohen’s crack ensemble Arcangelo is making a name for itself…Karg’s sound is clear and effortlessly stratospheric, though the sound can be hard’ GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE the observer CRITICS’ CHOICE 2015

Gramophone Awards 2015 Finalist

Amoretti, Arias by Mozart, Gluck and Gretry “Scene!”, concert arias with Christiane Karg, Berlin Classics by Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart and Mendelssohn with Christiane Karg, Berlin Classics

J.S. Bach, Mass in b Minor, Hyperion Records

‘The musicianship is exquisite. Cohen’s cello Arias for Benucci — playing is softly lyrical … and Davies’s coloratura WINNER RECITAL CATEGORY Sunday Times Album shines … his embellishments are gorgeous’ 2012 GRAMOPHONE gramophone AWARDS of the Week

‘…his singing is full of character, whilst Cohen’s period band shines in the overtures to Paisiello’s Il reTeodoro in Venezia and Mozart’s and Figaro’

Porpora Cantatas Arias for Guadagni Arias for Benucci with , with Iestyn Davies, with Iestyn Davies, Hyperion Records Hyperion Records Hyperion Records

16 | Arcangelo Mozart Violin Concertos | 17 WIGMORE HALL 115TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATORY CONCERT NUMBER 1 IN THE UK ARCANGELO with NOMINATED VOCAL CATEGORY SPECIALIST CLASSICAL CHART 2013 GRAMAPHONE AWARDS ‘This is playing of the highest order. Never clinical or WEDNESDAY, 1 JUNE 2016, 7:30pm, WIGMORE HALL ‘One to treasure both for the sensitive and mechanical, Ibragimova’s playing is deft and subtly restrained, well-sustained singing of Christopher Purves and swelling at times to pulsating and rich expressiveness. for the wonderfully wide expressive range of Handel’s The accompaniment is on a small ensemble of period music … Enjoyment is further enhanced by excellent instruments, warm and well matched to the brilliance support from the instrumental ensemble Arcangelo of the soloist, with the addition of mandolin at times under Jonathan Cohen’s sympathetic direction’ adding a distinctly contemporary folk-rock feel’ bbc music magazine classic fm drivetime album of the week

Tickets available at: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk Handel’s Finest Arias for Base Voice Bach violin concerti, telephone: 020 7935 2141 with Christopher Purves, Hyperion Records with Alina Ibragimova, Hyperion Records arcangelo directed by jonathan cohen ‘Sensitively accompanied isabelle faust (violin); rachel brown (flute); anna lucia richter (soprano) by Jonathan Cohen’s ensemble ‘Cohen’s lively incorporation of authentic Arcangelo... Prohaska attacks performance practices hits just the right tone, bach the songs with elegant daring…’ and the soloists throughout are exceptional’ Concerto in e for violin bwv1042 andy gill, the independent classic fm jc bach Mein Freund ist mein, und ich bin sein from ‘Wedding Cantata’ bach Concerto in a minor for violin bwv1041

20-minute interval

bach Orchestral Suite No. 2 in b minor bwv1067 bach Non sa che sia dolore in g bwv209 bach Violin Concerto in g minor bwv1056 Enchanted Forest, Arias by Purcell, Handel, Mozart and Haydn Concertos, Vivaldi, Monteverdi and Cavalli Hyperion Records with Anna Prohaska, Deutsche Grammophon Arcangelo Mozart Violin Concertos | 19 SUPPORT DONORS

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graphics Christian Curnyn © Eric Richmond Christiechristie www.christiechristie.cc Early Opera Company Friday 18 March 7.30pm Works by Handel, Biber, Muffat and Wassenaer, including Handel’s stunning motet Silete Venti performed by soprano Sophie Bevan, all directed by Christian Curnyn. Tickets from £15.

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Registered Charity www.facebook.com/arcangeloteam Paul McCreesh conducts Gabrieli in performance of Haydn’s ‘other’ great No. 1139783 oratorio, a work which placed the composer “as one of the rare artists to twitter.com/arcangeloteam whom old age brings the gift of ever bolder invention”. Tickets from £15. Registered in England and Wales youtube.com/user/arcangelomedia No. 07299583 soundcloud.com/arcangelomusic Box Office020 7222 1061 sjss.org.uk Patron HRH The Duchess of Cornwall STANDARDPlease book TICKET by 1 March PRICES 2016. QUOTE “ARC10” FOR 10% OFF ALL

EOC & Gabrieli Ad in Arcangelo Programme.indd 1 15/01/2016 11:54 QUARTETS FOR THE END OF TIME The Chilingirian String Quartet with Andrew Marriner and Ian Fountain

22 February, 7.30pm