pre-Christmas concert
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Agrippina, overture, HWV6, Ero e Leandro, cantata, HWV150,ANTONIO VIVALDI Concerto con molti stromenti, RV 576, WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Symphony No. 36 in C major, K425 “Linz”
Lenka Cafourková soprano, Brno Philharmonic, conductor Václav Luks
• Overture to Handel’s first masterpiece, an opera about the tragic fate of a power-hungry Roman Empress, the wife of Claudius and mother of Nero • A Greek story about the unhappy love of the young man Leander and Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite, adapted into a cantata for soprano and orchestra • A Mozart symphony written over four days during the composer’s stay in Linz • Václav Luks, founder and artistic director of the celebrated Collegium 1704, expert on historically-informed performance of early music, focusing in particular on the baroque period
