The Magic of the Baroque

2020 / 2021                    Marble Hall                    the 8th Season

10 March * Wednesday * 7.00 pm

 

Concert

The Magic of the Baroque

by composers who personify the High Baroque – George Frideric Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach and Antonio Vivaldi.

 

The concert participants offer you a musical journey into a distant era which was called “extravagant”. “A pearl of irregular (bizarre) shape” is one of the meanings of the term “baroque”. The ideals of harmony, simplicity and clarity of the Renaissance were replaced by complex, pretentious images and forms, pomp and dynamics. Baroque music is highly emotional. It was written for virtuoso singers and musicians, and exactly such artists participate in the concert.

 

 

Arias from operas will be performed by the leading soloist – Honoured Artist of the Republic of Bashkortostan Alfiya KARIMOVA (soprano), accompanied by the Astana Opera Chamber Orchestra.

Conductor – Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan Abzal MUKHITDIN.

 

 

ON THE PROGRAMME:

1. G.F. Handel. Aria from the oratorio Messiah (Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion...)

2. G.F. Handel. Almira's aria from Almira (Lascia ch'io pianga...)

3. G.F. Handel. Morgana's aria from Alcina (Tornami a vagheggiar...)

4. G.F. Handel. Aria Son come navicella from the cantata Lungi dal mio bel nume

5. J.S. Bach. Aria from Magnificat (Quia respexit...)

6. A. Vivaldi. Irene's aria from Bajazet (Sposa, son disprezzata...)

7. A. Vivaldi. Costanza’s aria from Griselda (Agitata da due venti...)

 

 

Running time: 1 hour 30 minutes