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3 Sep 2020, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2020 Live Benedetti and the OAE perform concertos for two violins

Benedetti and the OAE perform concertos for two violins
Benedetti and the OAE perform concertos for two violins
19:30 Thu 3 Sep 2020 Royal Albert Hall
Violinist Nicola Benedetti joins period-instrument group the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for a celebration of Baroque concertos. Watch on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Four at 8.00pm
Violinist Nicola Benedetti joins period-instrument group the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for a celebration of Baroque concertos. Watch on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Four at 8.00pm

Change of artist

Alina Ibragimova is no longer able to appear with Nicola Benedetti and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment due to a family bereavement. Nicola will now appear with violinists from the OAE: Kati Debretzeni, Rodolfo Richter, and Matthew Truscott.

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The cavernous Royal Albert Hall auditorium is an ideal space to explore the clean harmonies and the decorative melodies of the Baroque concerto. Period-instrument ensemble the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is joined by leading violinist Nicola Benedetti and partnered with members of the orchestra to perform two-violin concertos by Vivaldi and Bach – Bach’s concerto being composed following a study of Vivaldi.

In addition to one of only three concertos Vivaldi wrote for two oboes, we hear Concerti grossi by Handel (borrowing material from his own Brockes Passion) and Newcastle-born Charles Avison responding to the Italian style made fashionable in England by Alessandro Scarlatti.

Live on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3 & on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Four at 8.00pm

Image: Nicola Benedetti © Andy Gotts

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