2019/2020            Chamber Hall               the 7th Season

VIVALDI

Stabat Mater

•           Venue: Chamber Hall of the Astana Opera House

•           Date and time: 14 April 2020  /  Tuesday  /  7:00 pm

•           Running time:  1 hour 30 minutes

•           Age limit:  7+

•           Additional information: entering the Hall after the third ring is not allowed; photos and video recordings are not allowed; children under 7 years of age are not allowed for performance.

 

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On 14 April 2020, a Baroque music concert will be held in the Chamber Hall of the Astana Opera House. The programme features works by Antonio Vivaldi and Alessandro Scarlatti, as well as compositions by other Western European composers of the Baroque era.

The eternal baroque music, so beloved by modern listeners, will be performed by countertenor Batyrzhan Smakov and the string quintet Anima di Barocco.

This year is the anniversary year for the Italian composer of the Baroque era Alessandro Scarlatti (360 years since his birth), and musicians will pay tribute to the Baroque master.

Fascinated by famous The Four Seasons, we can easily imagine the author as an inspired romantic and nature lover. However, one should not forget that Antonio Vivaldi was a priest. And in his Stabat Mater and Nisi Dominus, the whimsical imagination did not soar freely. It, like flowers, blossomed on the mighty tree of a centuries-old tradition. Stabat Mater dolorosa (“The sorrowful mother was standing”) is a medieval chant performed on the Day of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as well as on Good Friday during Holy Week. Latin poems telling about sorrows of the Mother of God at the foot of the cross at Calvary were set to music by more than 200 composers. Among which are Pergolesi, Haydn, Schubert, Rossini, Liszt, Verdi, Poulenc and Pärt.

Stabat Mater by Antonio Vivaldi will be performed at the concert.

 

 

PROGRAMME:

A. Vivaldi. Stabat Mater

A. Vivaldi. Nisi Dominus

A. Vivaldi.  Presto from the “Summer” concerto of The Four Seasons (G minor RV 315)

A. Scarlatti. Totus amore languens

 

 

PERFORMED BY:

Soloist:

Batyrzhan Smakov, Laureate of International Competitions (countertenor)

String Quintet Anima di Barocco:

Madina Kapeu (violin)

Madina Bekmadiyeva (violin)

Anastasia Martynova (viola)

Daria Martynova (guitar)

Alisher Dutbayev (cello)

 

 

Piano – Raushan Beskembirova

 

Artistic Director of the project – Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan Raissa Mussakhajayeva

 

 

 

Management reserves the right to substitute performers and works performed