Upper Valley Baroque Presents The Four Seasons
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Saturday, Jan 24 • 3:00 PM
Chandler Center for the Arts, 71 N Main Street, Randolph, Vermont 05060
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$25-$55
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Filippo Ciabatti conducts this all-Vivaldi program featuring one of Baroque music's most famous works, The Four Seasons, with UVB's own Susanna Ogata performing the stunningly virtuosic violin solos. The program opens with works for strings and soprano, including his gorgeous In furore iustissimae irae, performed by the “exemplary, impassioned” Nola Richardson.
"The Four Seasons is actually a four-concerti collection, which is part of a larger collection of twelve—all published in Amsterdam in 1725. And, as we all know, the four are named after the seasons of the year. Each is written as a concerto for solo violin in dialogue with the orchestra—a true Italian concerto grosso. What’s special about these concerti is that Vivaldi wrote a sonnet to accompany each of them and these sonnets are noted in the music score. For instance, the chirping of a bird is noted quite specifically in the violin part, and the same is true for the hunt, or the sounds of ice in winter, and so on. So this is what makes it unique. It’s probably one of the first examples of Program Music—music that reflects a written text." - Filippo Ciabatti