Van Diemen's Band presents

GLORIA
Vivaldi's Gloria performed by Van Diemen's Band, Tasmanian Youth Chorale and Crescendo Choir

For our final program of 2025, Van Diemen's Band unites with the rising generation of Tasmanian musicians to perform a program of old and new works centred around Vivaldi's beloved Gloria (RV589).

For two centuries after his death, Vivaldi's Gloria lay forgotten, until it was found buried among a pile of manuscripts in the late 1920s. Today it is among his most famous choral works, setting the traditional Gloria from the Latin Mass in twelve varied cantata-like sections.

Vivaldi composed this Gloria in Venice, probably in 1715, for the choir of the Ospedale della Pietà, an orphanage for girls. A priest, music teacher and virtuoso violinist, Vivaldi composed many sacred works for the Ospedale, where he spent most of his career, as well as hundreds of instrumental concertos to be played by the girls’ orchestra.

This entrancing program also features the world premiere of a newly-commissioned work by Tasmanian composer Benjamin Raymond as well as works by Alice Chance and Sammartini.

Featuring:

Van Diemen's Band - Julia Fredersdorff, Artistic Director & Baroque violin
TYO Tasmanian Youth Chorale - Madeleine Dyer, conductor
Crescendo Choir - Dominique Baker, conductor
Xavier Gandy - recorder

Program:

B. RAYMOND A Violin's Mini Concertino for The Scandinavian Peninsula
A. CHANCE So Strong
G.B. SAMMARTINI Concerto in F Major for recorder and strings
A. VIVALDI Gloria in D RV589