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Concert

A pensive rain from a distant land

A melodious violin performance occasioned a soothing bath in the city

Saiful Islam
ORGANIZED by the Embassy of Italy in Bangladesh the violin performance by world class ensemble " I Solisti Veneti" mesmerized the audience in the Sheraton Hotel in Dhaka presenting a memorable concert. The presentation of the occidental pieces glued the guests for hours, and it happened because of the truly universal flair, the magic touch of the music on the common chords of emotion.
Vivaldi's Concerto in D Major RV 93 for Mandolin and Strings was found in a manuscript kept at Turin's Biblioteca Nazionale, with the title "Concerto with two violins, lute and bass". His combination is calibrated in order to allow the soloist instrument to stand out of the whole orchestra, the central voice, the viola, is missing, thus notably lightening the body of the accompanying orchestra. In the XVIII Century's Venice, "lute" was a common name for several instruments, including mandolin, often indicated as "Lombard Lute". In any case, independent of its naming, mandolin was surely present in Venice's Orchestra della Pieta, where Vivaldi was Concert Master for a long time: the little orphan girls played it admirably and the Red Priest often established its use, mainly as a soloist, in several, most beautiful pieces.
Concerto in C major RV 581 for solo violin and strings "in two chois" "per la SS Assunzionc di Maria Vergine" was remarkable. The modern "stereophony" has quite remote origins. Already in the XVI Century, in Venice, the presence of two organs placed one in front of the other, in two opposite sides of the San marco's Basilica, had drown the
composers to arrange in groups around each organ, groups of musicians and instruments which succeeded each other or were playing at the same time, thus creating a particular style named "in two chorus".
Of such a style remain famous examples in the Cantioni (Canzoni) in two or even three chorus by Giovanni Gabrieli and in many great composers of the following periods, among which there are J.S. Bach and Haendel.
It is one of the most elaborate Concertos of Vivaldi: it is written with great elegance and the solistic part is rich in a variety of expressive figurations and virtue.
The spiritual part in relation to this piece is also interesting. As a matter of fact the concerto has been written for the Festivity of Vergin Maria's Ascension and was probably performed by one of the Vivaldi's young pupils. It is a particularly rich work of variegated light and luminous character.
Niccolo Paganini's Variation upon "Carnival of Venice" op 10 for violin and strings was like a journey down to soul. Niccolo Paganini, undoubtedly the most famous among virtuous violinists in music history, lived during the XIC Century Italian opera development. He was a great friend of many composers, such as Rossini (on the occasion of the first performance of "Barbiere di Siviglia" in Paris) and Berlioz who dedicated to him "Aroldo in Italia".
He composed a great number of works (concertos, studies, capricios, sonatas and variations) almost exclusively dedicated to his instrument, works in the which he introduces the lyrical, passionate and theatrical spirit and the virtuous opera character of his time into the instrumental style.
The series of Variations upon "The Carnival of Venica" is based upon one of the most popular Venetian songs of the time," il mio cappello a tre punte". It is one of the most acrobatic among Paganini's compositions.
Gioachino Rossini, the composer of Variations in E flat major on a theme of "The Lady of the Lake", occupied an unrivalled position in the Italian musical world of his time, winning considerable success early in his career.
His operas from his first relative successes, from 1810 to 1823, were first performed in Italy. Then followed a period of success in Paris, leading to his final opera, "Guillaume Tell" stage in Paris in 1829. "Guillaume Tell" as well as "The barber of Seville", "Cinderella", "The Thieving Magpie" are some of his famous operas. Although he was historically more important as a composer of opera, his great comic operas achieved prominence as the
finest representatives of the
(comic) style.
The "Variations in E flat
Major" for clarinet and orchestra are divided into two parts, different yet complementary, and each of them has its own theme. The first one is a slow singing "Introduction" while the second one is a theme from "The Lady of the Lake".
Giovanni bottesini's Gran duo concatenate for violin, double-bass and orchestra, within the soloistic literature of the double-bass, the "gran duo" by Giovanni Bottesini plays a major role. It seems that the composer drew the idea from the Mozartian Arai's "Per questa bella mano" K 612.
In any case, the "gran duo" by Bottesini, which was written in the period of full splendor of the Italian opera, imitates the
style of an opera duet with lyric accents and with a pervading sharp humor. If the style is vocal, the virtuosity and the technical-sound frame are definitely instrumental. The two instruments are exploited up to the extreme limit of possible acrobatica with peaks of virtuosity, which are surely not inferior to those of Paganini.
Claudio Scimone in Padua founded I Solisti Veneti in 1959. I Solisti Veneti have given concerts in over sixty countries in Europe, North and South Africa, Japan, Australia and elsewhere. They make regular appearances at the world's leading Festivals, including since 1965, the Salzburg Festival (every year from 1965 until 1998).
I Solisti Veneti, in the years of its quite prolific journey, has shown a sincere interest in
producing works of fame. Although it has produced an almost unparalleled number of records, including the complete works of Vivaldi, Albinoni, Germiniani, Marcello and Tartini, in recent days its contribution to the music by modern composers is also huge. Important production of the recent years includes first ever recordings of Orlando Furioso, Catone in utica and Motests by Vivaldi, Rossini's Zelmira and Armida.
Claudio Scimone is the Founder and Director of the World famous ensemble "I Solisti Veneti". He is also honorary conductor of the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon. After studying conducting with Dimitri Mitropolous and Franco Ferrara, Maestro Scimone earned international renown conducting Operas in such
opera houses as Covent Garden in London, Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Houston Grand Opera, Zurich Opernhaus, Verona's Arena, La Fenice in Venice. Mostly he conducted Mozart Festival (at the Lincoln Center) in New York, Terme di Caracalla for the Roma State Opera, and several others. He has also conducted major Symphony Orchestras as the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, the Royal Phillarmonic, the Yomiuri Nippon Symphon Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre Philarmonique of the French Radio, the Symphonies, of Montreal Ottawa, Houston, Dallas, Sidney, Melbourne, Tokyo, the Bamberger Symphoniker, the Prague Chamber Orchestra, just to mention a few.
In 1996 he had an enormous success conducting for the Arena of Verona (the Roman Theatre that has more than 16,000 laces) the "Barber of Seville" by Rossini and "Les Danaides" of Salieri. He has also been a frequent guest in all the major world's Festivals such as Salzberg Festival, Maggio Fiorentino, Aspen Music Festival, the du Marais in Paris, Mai de Versailles, Nymphenberg and many others.
Violin performance is a rare event for Dhaka. Performances like this will surely enable Bangladesh to have a better understanding of the famous Italian concertos. The maestro's occasioned an evening quite relieving after a sultry busy day.