A Venetian Duel of Bows: Music of Vivaldi, Tartini, Veracini, and Locatelli
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Founded in 1997 by Baroque scholar and harpsichordist Andrea Marcon, the Venice Baroque Orchestra is recognized as one of the premier ensembles devoted to period instrument performance. The Orchestra receives wide critical acclaim for its concert and opera performances throughout North America, Europe, South America, Japan and Korea, Taiwan and China.
The Orchestra has appeared in many more cities across the United States than any other Baroque orchestra in history. They also maintain the most frequent touring schedule to Asia. Recently, the international prestige of the Venice Baroque Orchestra was remarked by the invitation to perform at the 51st Festival Internacional Cervantino, the most important cultural festival of Mexico and South America.
Committed to the rediscovery of 17th- and 18th-century masterpieces, under Mr. Marcon’s leadership VBO has given the modern-day premieres of Francesco Cavalli’s L’Orione, Vivaldi’s Atenaide, Andromeda liberata, Benedetto Marcello’s La morte d’Adone and Il trionfo della poesia e della musica, and Boccherini’s La Clementina. With Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Orchestra has staged Cimarosa’s L’Olimpiade, Handel’s Siroe, and Galuppi’s L’Olimpiade, and reprised Siroe at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York in its first full staging in the United States. The Orchestra has been seen worldwide through several television specials, including films by the BBC, ARTE, NTR (Netherlands), and NHK. They are the subject of three recent video recordings, and their performances were also featured on Swiss TV in the documentary film by Richard Dindo, Vivaldi in Venice.
Performance highlights include extensive tours of Europe, the United States and Asia with countertenor Philippe Jaroussky; concerts with contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux in France and Belgium; concerts with Avi Avital in Italy, Croatia, Germany, Spain, France, Mexico, and a twelve-concert tour of the United States and Canada; performance in the Frauenkirche with soprano Karina Gauvin for the Dresden Music Festival; and a tour with mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená including the Istanbul Festival and the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. Highly unusual for a Baroque ensemble, the VBO premiered Philip Glass’s violin concerto The American Four Seasons. With violinist Robert McDuffie, the orchestra appeared in 28 cities across the continent in 2010.
The orchestra’s latest recording of Tartini’s violin concertos with Chouchane Siranossian as a soloist under the baton of Andrea Marcon, released in 2020, received enthusiastic reviews. The album received the Preis der Deutschen Schallplatten Kritik in March 2020, the Choc Classica 2020, the ICMA 2021 in the category “Baroque Instrumental” as well as the Premio della critica discografica Franco Abbiati – III Edizione – 2021.
Their recording of Vivaldi concertos with Avi Avital, was released by Deutsche Grammophon in 2015. The previous release, featuring Philippe Jaroussky in Porpora arias on the Erato label, received a Grammy nomination. The 2012 release on Naïve, a pasticcio of Metastasio’s L’Olimpiade featuring the recording premieres of many 18th-century opera arias, was awarded Choc du Monde de la Musique. The VBO has an extensive discography with Sony and Deutsche Grammophon. Their world-premiere recording of Andromeda liberata for DG was followed by violin concertos with Giuliano Carmignola; Vivaldi sinfonias and concertos for strings; Vivaldi motets and arias with soprano Simone Kermes, two discs with Ms. Kožená—Handel arias and Vivaldi arias; Vivaldi violin concertos with Viktoria Mullova and Mr. Carmignola, and Italian arias with Ms. Petibon. The orchestra’s earlier discography on Sony with Mr. Carmignola includes The Four Seasons, previously unrecorded Vivaldi concertos, and a collection of Bach arias featuring Angelika Kirchschlager. The orchestra has also been honored with the Diapason d’Or, Echo Award, and the Edison Award.
Conductor, organist, and harpsichordist Andrea Marcon is one of the most renowned musicians and specialists for early music. He was born in Treviso and received a diploma in Early Music from Basel’s Schola Cantorum Basiliensis for his organ and harpsichord studies with Jean-Claude Zehnder and conducting with Hans Martin Linde. He has also inspired by Jordi Savall sowie bei Luigi Fernando Tagliavini, Hans Van Nieuwkoop, Jesper Christensen, Harald Vogel und Ton Koopman.
He won first prize in the organ competition at Innsbruck in 1986 and, in 1991, first prize for harpsichord at Bologna. Today Andrea Marcon is internationally recognized as a leading interpreter for music of the Classic and Early Romantic periods, professor of harpsichord, organ and interpretation at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.
In 1997, he founded the Venice Baroque Orchestra (VBO), today one of the leading baroque ensembles in the world. Since 2009, he has been artistic director of the La Cetra Barockorchester & Vokalensemble Basel. In fact, his partnership with La Cetra Barockorchester Basel began back in 1999 with the ensemble’s very first concert. Since then, he has led it from highlight to highlight with highly acclaimed productions of operas and ballets at the Theater Basel, as well as in international concert tours with stars such as Magdalena Kožená and Patricia Petibon.
For many years, Andrea Marcon has performed in all the major concert halls worldwide. He performs with leading singers and well-known instrumental soloists. Andrea Marcon is a regular guest conductor at the Frankfurt Opera and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and he has been invited by the Berlin Philharmonic, BR, WDR, HR, NDR and RSB radio orchestras, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Danish National Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Luzern Sinfonie Orchester, Münchner Philharmoniker, Bamberger Symphoniker, Camerata Salzburg and Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
He has been heralded for his performances of Marcello’s Il trionfo della Musica e della Poesia; Vivaldi’s Orlando Furioso, Atenaide, Tito Manlio, Gloria, Magnificat, Juditha Triumphans; Cavalli’s Calisto and Giasone; Monteverdi’s Orfeo and Vespers; Handel’s Messiah, Ariodante and Alcina; and Bach’s cantatas and Mass in B minor. His repertoire also spans Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert symphonies, early Rossini operas and symphonies by Brahms and Mahler.
Over 75 often award-winning recordings as conductor, harpsichordist and organist document the rich repertoire with which he is still engaged today. For his recordings he was awarded four times with the Deutsche Schallplatten Kritik prize. Mr. Marcon’s recordings as conductor also received several accolades, including the Diapason D’Or, Choc du Monde de la Musique, the Vivaldi Award of the Cini Foundation, Germany’s ECHO Klassik Award, the Edison Prize, the International Classical Music Award and two Grammy nominations.
In 2021, Andrea Marcon received the Händel-Preis, the award of the City of Halle will be presented to him during the Handel Festival.
More information about Andrea Marcon’s new project “Frau Musika”: https://fraumusika.eu/
“It’s is the privilege of exceptional artists to attract the limelight. The violinist Chouchane Siranossian belongs to that category.“ (Diapason)
Chouchane Siranossian is one of the leading virtuosos on the international Baroque scene today, both as a soloist and alongside many prestigious orchestras. Her mastery of the instrument, nourished by her musical research and her exemplary experience, has made her a highly sought-after musician of marked individuality. When Chouchane is not on stage or researching, she devotes herself to her passion for mountaineering and ski touring.
Chouchane Siranossian starts in the 2024/25 season with a re-invitation from the International Festival ‘Chopin and His Europe’ Warsaw with the {oh!} Orkiestra Historyczna. Highlights of the season include the USA/South America tour with the Venice Baroque Orchestra with concerts in São Paulo, Miami, Boston and San Diego as well as her debut with the BR Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Andrea Marcon. She is also a regular guest with the Dortmunder Philharmoniker, the Orquestra de Valencia and will play for the first time with the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa. She will perform diverse chamber music programmes f.e. at the Kretinga Early Music Festival in Lithuania, Santander and Geneva.
In the previous season, the violinist impressed audiences as Artist in Residence at the Leipzig Bach Festival (including her debut with the Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig) and at the Bodenseefestival (including a concert with the Bruckner Orchester Linz).
She began studying the violin with Tibor Varga in Sion, then was admitted at the age of fifteen to Pavel Vernikov’s class at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon. In 2002, she began training with Zakhar Bron at the Musikhochschule Zürich, and obtained her soloist’s diploma with the highest honours in 2007. Shortly afterwards she became concertmaster of the Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen (Switzerland), where she remained until her decisive encounter with Reinhard Goebel. She then devoted herself intensely to the study of early music with him at the Salzburg Mozarteum and regularly worked with him as a soloist.
She also participates in the creation of new works, collaborating with such composers as Daniel Schnyder, Marc-André Dalbavie, Aaron Kernis, Bechara El Khoury, Éric Tanguy, Benjamin Attahir and Thomas Demenga.
Chouchane Siranossian performs as a soloist on both modern and Baroque violin, with partners including Leonardo García Alarcón, Bertrand Chamayou, Andrea Marcon, Jos van Immerseel, Christophe Rousset, Andreas Spering and Thomas Hengelbrock as well as orchestras such as Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Bamberger Symphoniker, Les Siècles, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester and Venice Baroque Orchestra. She performs in major concert halls, as the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Palau de la Música Catalana, Wigmore Hall London, Bozar Brussels, KKL Luzern, Philharmonie Köln, Warsaw Philharmonic Hall and Brucknerhaus Linz, as well as at prestigious festivals such as the Rheingau Musik Festival, Bachfest Leipzig, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, Thüringer Bachwochen and Heidelberger Frühling.
As an Alpha Classics exclusive artist, Chouchane Siranossian released her latest album Duello d’archi a Venezia in June 2023. With the Venice Baroque Orchestra under Andrea Marcon she presents a “duel” between the works of Vivaldi, Tartini, Locatelli and Veracini. The album was awarded the Clef d’or by ResMusica. Her previous album Bach before Bach with Leonardo García Alarcón and Balázs Máté in 2021 was awarded the Diapason d’Or, the Muse d’Or of Muse Baroque and a Pizzicato Supersonic. Siranossian’s recording of Tartini’s violin concertos with the Venice Baroque Orchestra under Andrea Marcon, released in 2020, received enthusiastic critics and various awards such as the Preis der Deutschen Schallplatten Kritik in March 2020, the Choc Classica 2020, the ICMA 2021 in the category “Baroque Instrumental” as well as the Premio della critica discografica Franco Abbiati – III Edizione – 2021. In the same year she released the violin concertos by Andreas Romberg – recorded with the Capriccio Barock Orchester – which were highly acclaimed by the press, won the Muse d’Or of Muse Baroque and was nominated for the ICMA 2022. Her first solo album, Time Reflexion, was awarded a ‘Diapason Découverte’ in 2015. Her recording of the Mendelssohn Concerto with Anima Eterna Brugge (In Time) and the CD L’Ange et le Diable in duo with Jos van Immerseel both received numerous prizes, including two ICMA (International Classical Music Awards, in 2017 and 2019).
Chouchane plays on two violins: A Baroque violin by Giuseppe and Antonio Gagliano, and a violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini made available by courtesy of Fabrice Girardin, luthier at La Chaux-de-Fonds.
Chouchane Siranossian, Violin
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Andrea Marcon, Conductor
“Vivaldi, tartini, Veracini, Locatelli: a Bows Duel in Venice”
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for Strings G minor, RV 157
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in E minor “Il Favorito”, RV 277 for Solo Violin, Strings and Basso Continuo
Francesco Maria Veracini
Sonata in G minor, nr. 1 op. 1 for Violin and Basso Continuo
Giuseppe Tartini
Concerto in A major, D 96
for Solo Violin, Strings and Basso Continuo
Intermission————-///———-
Pietro Antonio Locatelli
Concerto in C minor
for solo Violin, Strings and Basso Continuo from “L’Arte dell’Arco”
Pietro Antonio Locatelli
Introduzione Teatrale in G major Antonio
Vivaldi
Concerto “Grosso Mogul” in D major RV 208