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Baroque ensemble on period instruments Francis Colpron, artistic director |
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Seasons > 2004-05 Season > Concerts > La tempête et le chardonneretTuesday April 26, 2005, 8:00 pm Salle Pierre-Mercure — Centre Pierre-Péladeau300, boulevard de Maisonneuve Est [métro Berri-UQAM], Montréal, Québec The concertos from Vivaldi’s Opus X 
Attention: Date and location have changed! Like many Italian composers of his time, Vivaldi was first and foremost a violinist. His work with the orphan-musicians of La Pietà nevertheless led him to write sonatas and concertos for all the instruments in use at the time and that his students played well. At the end of the 1720s, one of his colleagues was the flutist Ignaz Sieber. In view of the growing popularity in Venice of the transverse flute, Vivaldi published a collection of six concertos for the instrument. Even though four of these are revisions of previous compositions, some for recorder, together these pieces show an inspiration and poetry unique among Vivaldi's work. Our partners
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