Gunar Letzbor © Daniil Rabovsky
Ars Antiqua Austria / Letzbor
Sunday
19
March
2023
19:30
Schubert-Saal
Performers
Ars Antiqua Austria
Norbert Kirchner, Cembalo
Ján Krigovský, Violone
Miloslav Student, Mandora
Gunar Letzbor, Barockvioline, Leitung
Programme
»Musica Austriaca«. Preziosen aus dem Stiftarchiv Kremsmünster
Johann Joseph Vilsmayr
Prelude, Aria, Saraband und Aria (Partia Nr. 1 A-Dur (Artificiosus concentus pro camera)) (1715))
Giuseppe Valentini
Allettamento per camera op. 8/6 (1714)
Anonymus
Trio für Mandora, Violine und Basso continuo. Ms. L 133 Nr. 14 in Kremsmünster
Giuseppe Valentini
Allettamento per camera op. 8/9
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Allettamento per camera op. 8/11
Anonymus
Trio für Mandora, Violine und Basso continuo. Ms. L 133 Nr. 27 in Kremsmünster
Giuseppe Valentini
Allettamento per camera op. 8/2
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Zugabe:
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer
Ciaccona in A (1669))
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»Follow me into the closet!«
The multi-talented Florentine Giuseppe Valentini was - along with Corelli, Geminiani, Locatelli or Veracini - not only one of the most important violin virtuosos (and composers for this instrument) of his time, but also a poet and painter. His penchant for the eccentric is already revealed by the titles of his instrumental collections for various instrumentations, such as »Bizzarrie«, »Idee«, »Poesie« or »Allettamenti«, which means »Seductions« in German. Twelve such »Allettamenti da Camera« (i.e. »Musical Chamber Seductions«) were published by Valentini in Rome in 1714 (one, the 3rd, even dedicated to his »molto illustre, e molto mia Signora Padrona Singolarissima, la Signora A. F. T.« decidedly!), and one copy of it had gotten lost in the music collection of the Kremsmünster Abbey Archives. »Strayed?« No, surely it had gotten there deliberately. For the Benedictines of Kremsmünster - like other religious communities at that time - were not only not averse to secular music, but indulged in it on a very high technical level! Many monasteries were musically downright subversive cells, concerning Roman as well as imperial foreign exchange. Gunar Letzbor and his colleagues from Ars Antiqua Austria will prove this once again by means of Valentini's precious works.
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