ORFEO Orchestra and Simon Standage: Bach / Vivaldi
19:30
Concert Hall
Program:
Johann Sebastian BACH:
Double Violin Concerto in d-minor, BWV 1043
Orchestral Suite No.2 in B minor, BWV 1067
- interval -
Antonio VIVALDI:
The Four Seasons Op. 8 No. 1-4
Orfeo Orchestra on period instruments
Simon Standage - violin
László Paulik - violin
Ildikó Kertész – flute
György Vashegyi - harpsichord
Orfeo Orchestra, founded by György Vashegyi in 1991, use their present name after their successful Hungarian premiere of the complete L’Orfeo by Monteverdi. The ensemble is one of the best national interpreters of old music, in Hungary they have premiered several pieces on period instruments.
Soloist of the evening, violinist Simon Standage, is a specialist in 17-18th century music. He graduated at Cambridge University in 1963, later he won a Harkness Fellowship to study with Ivan Galamian in New York City. After his Wigmore Hall debut in 1972, he became a founding member of Trevor Pinnock's period-instrument ensemble The English Concert, where he was first violinist from 1972 to 1991. In this time, he performed and recorded violin concertos by Bach, Vivaldi, Haydn and others. He was sub-leader of the English Chamber Orchestra from 1974 to 1978 and led the City of London Sinfonia from 1980 to 1989. In 1981 he was a founder of the Salomon Quartet, a period-performance string quartet specialising in the classical repertory, performing and recording works by Mozart, Haydn, and lesser known composers. In 1990, he and Richard Hickox founded the group Collegium Musicum 90, a period-performance group varying in size from two musicians to full orchestra and chorus with which he has made many recordings as both conductor and violin soloist, of works by Telemann, Vivaldi, Leclair, Marcello, Albinoni, Arne, Boyce, and others. (source Wikipedia)
www.orfeo.hu
Tickets are available for 2500 HUF on the spot, in the national JEGYPONT network of Interticket and online at JEGY.HU
℗ BMC
Soloist of the evening, violinist Simon Standage, is a specialist in 17-18th century music. He graduated at Cambridge University in 1963, later he won a Harkness Fellowship to study with Ivan Galamian in New York City. After his Wigmore Hall debut in 1972, he became a founding member of Trevor Pinnock's period-instrument ensemble The English Concert, where he was first violinist from 1972 to 1991. In this time, he performed and recorded violin concertos by Bach, Vivaldi, Haydn and others. He was sub-leader of the English Chamber Orchestra from 1974 to 1978 and led the City of London Sinfonia from 1980 to 1989. In 1981 he was a founder of the Salomon Quartet, a period-performance string quartet specialising in the classical repertory, performing and recording works by Mozart, Haydn, and lesser known composers. In 1990, he and Richard Hickox founded the group Collegium Musicum 90, a period-performance group varying in size from two musicians to full orchestra and chorus with which he has made many recordings as both conductor and violin soloist, of works by Telemann, Vivaldi, Leclair, Marcello, Albinoni, Arne, Boyce, and others. (source Wikipedia)
www.orfeo.hu
Tickets are available for 2500 HUF on the spot, in the national JEGYPONT network of Interticket and online at JEGY.HU
℗ BMC