Last appointment of the Roman Philharmonic at the Argentina

Last concert of the Accademia Filarmonica Romana’s chamber music season at the Teatro Argentina on Thursday, May 15 (9 p.m.) with a concert by the ensemble L’Astrée and violinist Francesco D’Orazio , in a program that dialogues with the Baroque repertoire and contemporary music by juxtaposing 18th-century instrumental masterpieces by Händel Corelli and Vivaldi, with a tribute to Luciano Berio in the year in which the centenary of his birth falls, and a world premiere performance, commissioned by the Accademia Filarmonica Romana, of Toshio Hosokawa (1955) among the most representative composers of the contemporary music scene in the Far East.

A formation founded more than 30 years ago at the behest of harpsichordist Giorgio Tabacco, L’Astrée is one of the most well-established Italian instrumental ensembles specializing in the repertoire of the seventeenth-eighteenth century performed according to historical criteria and with the use of original instruments. A guest of the main musical institutions in Italy and abroad, invited to the most important festivals and centers of Baroque music, L’Astrée also has to its credit a large number of CDs with unpublished recordings of the Baroque instrumental repertoire.

For the Philharmonic’s next concert, the ensemble will offer some Sonatas for two violins and continuo from Georg Friedrich Händel’s Op. 2 published in 1733 (Nos. 1 and 5) and two of the best-known elaborations of the period on the musical theme “Madness,” namely Arcangelo Corelli’s Sonata Op. 5 No. 12 for violin and basso continuo published in 1700 and Antonio Vivaldi’s Sonata a tre for two violins and basso continuo RV 63 , from five years later.