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Monteverdi's Italy
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Programme & Song Text
Date
Tue 25 Jan 2022, 7.30pm
Tickets
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Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
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Important Information

Download the PDF programme here. Reproduction and distribution is strictly prohibited.

Artists

  • Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
    • Georg Kallweitviolin, concertmaster
    • Kerstin Erbenviolin
    • Clemens-Maria Nuszbaumerviola
    • Stephan Siebenviola
    • Jan Freiheitcello
    • Annette Rheinfurthviolone
    • Siobhán Armstrongharp
    • Raphael Alpermannharpsichord, organ

Programme

  • Biagio Marini
    1594-1663
      • Sinfonia Sesto Tuono Op. 22
      • Balletto Terzo Op. 22
      • Corrente Seconda Op. 22
      • Zarabanda Terza Op. 22
      • Balletto Quarto Allemano Op. 22

Interval

  • Antonio Bertali
    1605-1669
      • Sonata a6 in D minor for 2 violins, 2 violas da braccio and viola da gamba and violone
  • Giovanni Legrenzi
    1626-1690
      • La divisione del mondo
        :
      • Improvisation on 'Lumi, potete piangere'
  • Claudio Monteverdi
    1567-1643
      • L'incoronazione di Poppea
        :
      • Improvisation on 'Pur ti miro, pur ti godo'

Encore

Overview

Just one work by Monteverdi himself in a widely-ranging programme of music by many contemporaries, familiar and unfamiliar, almost all of them Italian with the notable exception of the Bohemian-born, Salzburg-based Heinrich Biber and his ‘Nightwatchman’ Serenade.

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