The concert series of the Students of the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory of Venice continues, with free admission subject to availability of seats. The evening’s program includes Buxtehude’s Sonata a 2 in A minor BuxWV 272 performed by Daniele Rotilio (Baroque violin), Alberto Casarin (viola da gamba) and Sebastiano Franz (harpsichord); Concerto in A minor for recorder, viola da gamba, strings and b.c. by Telemann edited by Annachiara Mondin (recorder), Alberto Casarin (viola da gamba), Daniele Rotilio (baroque violin), Maddalena Cattapan (viola), Marcello Alemanno (viola da gamba), Amleto Matteucci (double bass) Sebastiano Franz (harpsichord ). The opening concert will involve the instrumentalists of the early music department, followed by piano pieces by Beethoven and Hindemith’s Sonata for oboe and piano. The repertoire proposed by the Early Music Department includes two pieces for two solo voices, one with continuo and one with strings and continuo. The manuscript of the Double Concerto in A minor for recorder, viola da gamba and continuo by Georg Philipp Telemann dates from 1750; the piece is contextualized in a dense production of instrumental concerts, which can involve from one to four (and more) solo parts. The movements (with the exception of the third, in which only the two solo voices appear – recorder and viola da gamba – and the continuo) present an alternation between tutti and solo: in tutti the sonorous mass of the full ensemble – made up of solo voices, a single part of thick violin, viola and continuo – states the main theme of each movement; in the solo sections there is a dense interaction between the two solo voices, accompanied by the continuo with scattered interventions by the strings, in episodes that are now contrapuntal, now singable, now of individual virtuosity.
