Čičić Directs Vivaldi

Dunedin Consort is joined by guest director and superstar violinist Bojan Čičić for this fiery all-Vivaldi programme, which explores the rich array of music that Vivaldi composed for the court orchestra in Dresden.

From the tongue-in-cheek ‘per il Coglioni’ (‘for the idiots’), so named because Vivaldi was asked to write in the figures for the continuo player, to the exquisite virtuosity of the Concerto in B flat major, which Vivaldi’s French publisher deemed worthy of a collection of ‘elite’ Italian concertos. Together these works present a snapshot of the extraordinary invention and craft that earned Vivaldi his rightful reputation as master of the baroque concerto. 

Programme

Antonio Vivaldi 

Sinfonia à 4 in C major, RV 192a 
Concerto for violin and strings in C major, RV 195 

Concerto for violin in A major, RV 341 
Concerto/Sinfonia for strings in F major, RV 140 
Concerto in B-flat major, ‘L’elite des Concerto Italiens’, RV 382  
Concerto for 4 violins, viola and basso in F major, RV 567  
Concerto for violin in A major ‘per li Coglioni’, RV 340 

Artists
Bojan Čičić director & solo violin Dunedin Consort 

Pre-concert talk with Bojan Čičić, 6.30pm  

Presented by Dunedin Consort