BBC Proms 2020

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BBC Proms: Proms 2020: Baroque Doubles: Nicola Benedetti with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Baroque Doubles: Nicola Benedetti with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

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Jonathan Cohen directs the OAE in music by Handel, Vivaldi, Bach and Avison.

Violinist Nicola Benedetti joins period instrument group the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for a celebration of baroque concertos.

The cavernous Royal Albert Hall auditorium is an ideal space to explore the clean harmonies and decorative melodies of the baroque concerto. Period instrument ensemble the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is joined by leading violinist Nicola Benedetti to perform double violin concertos by Vivaldi and Bach. In addition to one of only three concertos Vivaldi wrote for two oboes, we hear concerti grossi by Handel and Newcastle-born Charles Avison.

Presented by Martin Handley from the Royal Albert Hall.

Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in D major for two violins, RV 513
George Frideric Handel: Concerto grosso in B flat major, Op 3 No 2
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in D minor for two violins, RV 514
George Frideric Handel: Radamisto – Passacaglia
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in A minor for two oboes, RV 536
Charles Avison: Concerto grosso No 5 in D minor (after Scarlatti)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto in D minor for two violins, BWV 1043

Nicola Benedetti (violin)
Kati Debretzeni  (violin in Vivaldi, RV 514)
Rudolfo Richter  (violin in Vivaldi, RV 513)
Matthew Truscott (violin in Bach)
Katharina Spreckelsen (oboe)
Sarah Humphrys (oboe)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Jonathan Cohen (director/harpsichord)

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