Concert Details

FREE Pre-concert foyer performance - Vecchi Venti - Sunday 11th February, 5.45pm

Andre Gabrieli  – O Sacrum Convivium
Giovanni Gabrieli – Canzon IV
Adriaan Willaert – Quando fra I altre donne
Gioseffo Guami – La Ondeggiante
Marcantonio Ingegneri – In Monte Oliveti
Claudio Monteverdi – Adoramus te, Christe
Biagio Marini – Sinfionia ‘La Zorzi
Giovanni Picchi – Canzon XV

Vecchi Venti is a Renaissance brass and wind ensemble who perform using historical instruments, including cornetti, sackbuts and dulcian. Since forming at the Royal College of Music in 2014, Vecchi Venti has given chamber music concerts at the V&A Museum, the RCM Museum of Instruments, St Stephen’s Church, Gloucester Road, and Regent’s Hall. The ensemble also performs regularly with the choir at Christ Church, Chelsea. It forms part of the massed inter-conservatoire renaissance brass ensemble formed in summer 2016, and several of the group’s members have studied and performed as scholars at the Dartington International Summer School.

Tonight’s programme explores the Venetian school of composers from the 16th and 17th Centuries, and traces paths of musical influence between teachers, students, colleagues and family. This snapshot of Renaissance and early Baroque Venice features madrigals, canzonas and motets from the repertoires of both famous and lesser-known composers of the time, following the development of compositional and instrumental virtuosity.