Baroque Ensemble and Early Voices - End of Semester 2 Concert

The Early Music Studio and Early Voices proudly presents a semester’s work from its students. Enjoy excerpts from Le bourgeois gentilhomme, by French classical music’s legendary master Lully which establishes colour and pageantry. Alongside pieces from the sackbut ensemble which explores the excitement and flair of late 16th-century Europe.  

This semester marks the second Annual Baroque Ensemble concerto extravaganza, showcasing some of the unique student talent in the Early Music Studio.  The extravaganza features a concerto for piccolo by Vivaldi, a recorder concerto by Sammartini, cello concerti by Leo and Tartini, organ concerto by Handel, and a new arrangement of Vivaldi’s double cello concerto for cello and violone.  

The programme closes with the moving Litanies de la Vierge by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, which combines instrumental and vocal forces in a powerful prayer to the Virgin Mary. 

Program

TUTTI

Jean-Baptiste Lully
Le bourgeois gentilhomme, excerpts:
Ouverture
Marche pour la Ceremonie des Turcs
Chaconne des Scaramouches

Sackbut and Cornetto Ensemble
Repertoire TBC

TUTTI

CONCERTO EXTRAVAGANZA

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Concerto in F major, Op. 4.4
I. Allegro
Yesie Lin Viota, organ

Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770)
Concerto in D major GT 1.D34
II. Grave
Sebastian Spillane, cello

Concerto in F
III. Allegro assai
Hugo Davey, recorder

Leonardo Leo (1694-1744)
Concerto in A L20
I. Allegro
II. Larghetto
Aylish Jorgensen, cello
Haydn Furness, cello

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Concerto in D Op. 10.3
I. Allegro
Harrison Whelan, traverso

Double concerto in G minor RV 531
I. Allegro
Sebastian Spillane, cello
Theodore Pham, violone

- INTERVAL - 

EARLY VOICES

Giovanni Giorgi (d. 1762)
Improperium (Offertory for Palm Sunday)

John Blow (1649-1708)
Salvator mundi (1670’s) (Matins Antiphon)

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)
Litanies de la Vierge (ca. 1684) - H.83

SOLOISTS

Genevieve Gray
Mia Robinson
Victoria Lazaris
Madison Adams
Beatrice Langley
Ruby Dargaville
Phoebe Buckle
Phoebe Jackman
Elias Elywyn
Hugh Campbell
Jasper Kirkwood
Alexander Humphreys

Further Credits

Early Voice tutors
Stephen Grant, dir.
David McFarlane, organ
Baroque Ensemble tutors 
Rachael Beesley, violin and viola
Robert Collins, sackbuts
Greg Dikmans, traverso
Danny Lucin, cornetto
Adam Masters, oboe 
Emma Black, oboe
Nick Pollock, lutes and guitars
Josephine Vains, cello
Laura Vaughan, violone
Donald Nicolson, Baroque Ensemble dir., and continuo 

Venue Information: This event takes place in Hanson Dyer Hall, located on the third floor of The Ian Potter Southbank Centre which is accessible via the stairs or lift. Please enter via the main entrance at 43 Sturt St, Southbank VIC 3006.

Image: Pieter Claesz, Still Life with Instruments (1623)

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