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Performance TitleStreaming - BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts - One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Proms Season: Playing Doubles: Nicola Benedetti and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Performs Concertos for Two Violins: Behind Closed Doors [Private]
Performance Date3 September 2020
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersNicola Benedetti - violin
Secondary PerformersRodolfo Richter,
Kati Debretzeni,
Matthew Truscott - violins,
Katharina Spreckelsen,
Sarah Humphreys - oboes
Orchestra or BandOrchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
ConductorsJonathan Cohen - director, harpsichord
Set List'Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins, RV 514', A Vivaldi,
'Concerto Grosso in B Flat Major, Op.3 No.2, G F Handel,'
'Concerto in D Major for Two Violins, RV 513', A Vivaldi,
'Radamisto - Passacaglia', G F Handel,
'Concerto in A Minor for Two Oboes, RV 536', A Vivaldi,
'Concerto Grosso No.5 in D Minor (after Scarlatti)', C Avison,
'Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043', J S Bach
Performance NotesThis Prom will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 at 19:30 BST and then on BBC Four at 20:00 BST.

Please note that it will not be possible to have an audience at the Royal Albert Hall for this concert.

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.
Note the Prom on 2 September was held at Salford Keys, Salford.
Ticket Prices£0
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work11973Streaming - BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts - One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Proms Season: Behind Closed Doors [Private]13
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/963Benedetti; Nicola (20 July 1987); CBE; Scottish violinist
DS/UK/984Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE); 1986-; British period-instrument orchestra
DS/UK/786Cohen; Jonathan (fl 1960s-); British pianist, composer, musical director
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