Just tonight back from Hamburg......................
To say " It was GREAT!" means to say nothing!
It was ....marvelous, incredible, irrestible heroic, breathtaking tender, heartrending beautiful and wonderful humorous!
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] The Program:
Evaristo Felice dall´Abaco ( 1675-1742)
Concerto a piú Strumenti e- moll op.5 Nr.3
With two flutes solo.
Antonio Caldara ( 1670-1736)
"Contrasto assai piu degno"( "Temistocle")
"Son io Fabio?" - "Troppo é insoffribile fiero martir" ( "Lucio Papirio, dittatore"- this aria was dedicated to Gaetano Orsini)
"Tutti nemici e rei" ( "Adriano in Siria", also for Orsini)
Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1698-1775)
Sinfonia for strings and basso continuo in A- Dur
Antonio Caldara ( who else?)))
"Tutto fa nocchiero esporto" ( "Ifigenia in Aulide")
"Non tremar, vassalo indegno" ( " Temistocle")
Pause.
Antonio Caldara
" Numi assistenza"- " Opprimete i contumaci" ("La clemenza di Tito")
"Se mai senti spirarti sul volto" ( "La clemenza di Tito")
Antonio Vivaldi ( 1678- 1741)
Concerto fro cello and strings in d- moll Nr.23 RV 407
Antonio Caldara
"Misero pargoletto" ( " Demofoonte")
"Lo seguitai felice" ( "L´Olimpiade" - dedicated to Felice Salimbeni)
Encores:
Caldara, "Se mai senti spirarti sul volto" ("Scipione nelle Spagne") in an incredible tempo and fiery .
"Vado, o sposa" ( "Enone")
Nicola Porpora ( 1686-1768)
"Alto Giove" (" Polifemo") - always different sung, always to die for..............
Aaand -"Die letzte Arie, aber sehr klein " - Caldara , of course - "Achille in Sciro" with a CHOIR of the musicians of Concerto Köln at the end!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] Absolutely grandious: Markus Hoffmann, the concertmaster and Werner Matzke, cello....and all the musicians, no doubt!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] Then- signing session, as always. Very patient and friendly to each person, who wanted to get the autograph.