Grand Tour

Alfredo Bernardini, with a remarkable career spanning decades as an oboist and conductor in internationally recognised early music ensembles, returns to direct the Casa da Música Baroque Orchestra. The concert is entirely filled with little-known music from the 18th century that deserves to be heard. Francesco Maria Veracini's Overture No. 6 reveals one of the figures of the Italian Baroque who heralded the birth of a new stylistic era. It celebrates the high quality of Pisendel's music that has come down to the present day - only a small part of his oeuvre - and introduces Antonio Lotti, an influential composer of his time. Concertante music has Antonio Vivaldi as one of its most brilliant creators, an example of which is the Oboe Concerto. Bernardini takes on the role of solo conductor, alongside Pedro Castro, in the Concerto for two oboes in E minor by Johann David Heinichen - an important German Baroque theorist and composer whose music has been surprisingly rediscovered. This fascinating evening ends with music by Jan Dismas Zelenka, a Czech composer who has been re-evaluated as one of the most interesting of his time.

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Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música
Alfredo Bernardini oboe and conductor
Rebecca Raimondi violin
Pedro Castro oboe

Francesco Maria Veracini Overture n.º 6 in G minor
Georg Pisendel Concerto for Violin in D major , JunP I.7
Antonio Lotti Overture from the ópera Ascanio
Antonio Vivaldi Concerto for Oboe in C major, RV 449
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Johann David Heinichen Concerto for 2 oboes in E minor, Seibel 222
Jan Dismas Zelenka Overture-Suite in F major, ZWV 188