Accademia dell’Arcadia presents chamber works from Venetian-linked composers Nicola Porpora, Agostino Steffani, Alessandro Scarlatti, and of course, the most famous, Antonio Vivaldi.

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La Suonata presents this idiosyncratic blend of Italian and English flavours in a virtuosic and varied concert programme.

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Janet Forbes, recorder

Patricia González Fernández, harpsichord

Italians in London

an Anglo-Italian fusion

[2 musicians]

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“[...] for the listener there should be as much (or nearly as much) excitement in a performer’s insights about a work as in the work itself.”

A. Kozinn, in The New York Times (3 February 2010)

Yesterday we were speaking about this in the kitchen and today I find the article, nice.

Waking up early in London is very easy: my body still remains in the continent so I got an extra hour to have a calm cup of tea and write this.

Since a couple of days ago, I feel sick (the extreme cold these days in Utrecht and the humidity through the window of my room certainly affected me), but yesterday Janet and me took the plane to London. Today we will play in the first round of the Royal-Over Seas League annual music competition… Bach and van Eÿck… Castello, Telemann and Yun will wait until Monday, and Vivaldi to the final on Tuesday (in case we get there, of course).

By now everything goes very well: a nice travel (far from my last experience with easyJet), a lovely evening, I feel less sick, and thermometers are more than 10ºC higher here. Today we will have a walk in London centre, and go to Long Clawson in the weekend.

The first of the concerts will be offered tomorrow evening by Cappella Monteverdiana, conducted by Christina Pluhar. Considering that all the members of the group are from the Koninklijk Conservatorium, I don’t have to say twice how happy it made me to find Christina’s invitation to join. Two days of intensive rehearsals, full of work and pleasure.

22 January 2010 - 18.30

Marini, Monteverdi, Merula, Caresana

Cappella Monteverdiana Den Haag, Scroll Ensemble - dir. Christina Pluhar

Oud Katholieke Kerk [map]

Juffrouw Idastraat
2513 Den Haag (The Netherlands)

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Ensemble Eloqui made its first public appearance last Friday, in Vredenburg Leeuwenbergh, in the heart of Utrecht. The context? The first concert of the project on Historically Informed Performance (HIP), led by the violinist Antoinette Lohmann, that the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht organized this first month of 2010 for the “modern” (classical) string students of the school. With the motto “Do you have the guts?”, Antoinette has introduced them into baroque language, rethoric and technique with music by Scheidt, Biber, Lully, Farina and Vivaldi.

Also Leclair sounded, at the beginning of the concert, played by the four members of Ensemble Eloqui. We felt a little like those young “support bands” we find in rock concerts. Just a little warming up of our programme, “Les Goûts-Réunis”, that we will play today and next Tuesday. A warming up for 200 listeners. Not bad!

17 January 2010 - 15.00

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Constantijn Huygenstraat 1
3141 Maassluis (The Netherlands)

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19 January 2010 - 12.30

Conservatorium van Utrecht - Hoofdgebouw (Kapel) [map]

Mariaplaats 28
3511 Utrecht (The Netherlands)

Free admission

Les Goûts-Réunis

a travel through 18th century Europe
[4 musicians]

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