Händel, Bach, Corelli, Vivaldi, Telemann: Budapest Festival Orchestra

Sobre o Evento

Jonathan Cohen conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra in a performance of Baroque music.

Telemann's violin concerto nicknamed “The Frogs” delivers on its promise: the strings conjure up a lake full of amphibians in the first and second movements.

The oeuvre he left behind by Arcangelo Corelli is not particularly voluminous. Many considered him their master, and he greatly influenced the development of the style of Baroque orchestral music. The program includes the second piece from his Op. 6 series.

Handel is also known to have used Corelli’s Op. 6 series, which was known and loved in London at the time, as a model for his own collection of six concerto grossi (Op. 3) and this concert will feature the fourth concerto grosso.

Despite his busy schedule from 1729, Bach gave weekly concerts as the head of the Collegium Musicum at Café Zimmermann and on these occasions, he “recycled” his concertos, performing them in a variety of versions. The version written for two harpsichords, marked as No. 1060 in Bach’s own catalogue, provided the basis for the reconstruction of the oboe‐violin version performed in this concert.

Xavier Sabata (male alto)
Bojan Čičić (violin)
Alfredo Bernardini (oboe)
Baroque gestures: Sigrid T’Hooft