Une soirée Vivaldi à Rome

By Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer, 07 November 2014

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“un aspect très collectif”

Reviewed at Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma: Sala Santa Cecilia, Rome on 4 November 2014

Vivaldi, Ercole su'l Termodonte, RV 710 (sinfonia)

Vivaldi, Concerto for violin and cello in F major, RV 544 "Il Proteo, ossia il mondo al rovescio"

Vivaldi, Concerto for 2 violins, 2 oboes and bassoon in D major, RV 564a

Vivaldi, Concerto for violin, 2 oboes, 2 recorder and bassoon in G minor, RV 577

Vivaldi, Gloria in D major, RV 589

Europa Galante

Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Fabio Biondi, Conductor

Raffaella Milanesi, Soprano

Ann Hallenberg, Mezzo-soprano

Sir Antonio Pappano returns to Santa Cecilia for Mozart and Bruckner

Pia Maltri, 30th October

Now Director Emeritus of the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the rarely heard Mass in F minor by Anton Bruckner.

****1

Lorenzo Viotti conducts the death and rebirth of Spring in music

Alissa Balocco, 8th February

The Swiss conductor returns to the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, presenting a triptych of pieces by Schumann, Debussy and Zemlinsky inspired by the season of renewal.

****1

A voyage into celestial spheres with Thomas Adès and the Santa Cecilia

Alissa Balocco, 16th March

Thomas Adès takes the audience in Rome into paradise, or the ascension into Dante's heavens, as his Paradiso makes its first appearance in Italy in a programme dedicated to the celestial world.

***11

Pablo Heras-Casado: between the avant-garde and neoclassicism in Rome

Alissa Balocco, 9th March

The conductor directs the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Theatres of Voices in contrasting symphonies by Berio and Stravinsky.

***11

A weighty hymn of praise at the Santa Cecilia

Mark Pullinger, 26th November

Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha is the pick of the soloists in a weighty reading of Mendelssohn's Lobgesang under Kazuki Yamada. But can Schubert's Fifth withstand the same approach?

***11

News from home: Jakub Hrůša conducts Dvořák and Janáček in Rome

Elena Luporini, 11th June

Santa Cecilia's newly-appointed Principal Guest Conductor Jakub Hrůša leads an all-Czech concert, promising a bright future in Rome.

****1

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Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer

Maître de conférences en histoire ancienne à l'Institut Catholique de Toulouse, Arnaud enseigne également à l'Université Toulouse II et à l'Institut National Universitaire d'Albi. Passionné de musique, violoniste et pianiste, il a poursuivi en parallèle de ses études en histoire un cursus au Conservatoire de Toulouse et y a obtenu plusieurs prix. Ses recherches portent sur l’histoire des religions antiques et notamment sur l’utilisation de la musique dans le cadre des cultes polythéistes.

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