Vivaldi's World - Tafelmusik : Tafelmusik

Jeanne Lamon Hall, Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre

No one who attended Lina Tur Bonet’s Tafelmusik debut in 2024 could possibly forget her exuberant, gorgeous playing, and intense rapport with the orchestra.

The Spanish violinist’s lively, daring playing style is the perfect match for Vivaldi’s “Il Grosso Mogul,” a concerto she attacks with “an almost punk rigour that piques your curiosity” (South German Radio). In Tur Bonet’s hands, this work is as startlingly fresh, inventive, and virtuosic to our ears today as it was in 18th-century Venice.

The balance of our program makes way for members of the orchestra to shine in solo roles, and includes Zelenka’s Sinfonia Concertante in A Minor along with a piece of buried treasure—the Concerto à Quattro in C Minor by the Austrian baroque composer who wrote under the pseudonym Giovanni Henrico Albicastro.

The concert includes Geminiani’s spectacular orchestral arrangement of Corelli’s famous violin sonata “La Folia.” Featuring one of the most recognizable bass lines of the last 300 hundred years, the folia theme can be heard in everything from Bach’s “Peasant” cantata to Nicholas Britell’s soundtrack for the TV series Succession. Geminiani was not immune to folia fever and with Tur Bonet at the wheel, this high-voltage showpiece is guaranteed to bring the house down.

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Credits & Program

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Running Time

120 minutes

Style of Music

Baroque orchestral

Guest artists

Lina Tur Bonet

Director and violin soloist

Internationally recognized for her virtuosity, energy, and her mix of creativity and stylistic rigour, violinist Lina Tur Bonet has developed a versatile and unique career. She has toured the world as a soloist, and has appeared as guest director with orchestras in Norway, France, Austria, Germany, and in her native Spain. She serves as concertmaster of Jordi Savall’s Le Concert des Nations, and founded MUSIca ALcheMIca, an ensemble that has performed across Europe the Americas, and Japan in collaboration with artists from a wide range disciplines.

Tur Bonet’s solo recordings and albums with MUSIca AlchemMIca have received international acclaim. Her recent Ravel recording À Moune was voted Best CD of the Year in Japan (2022).

Lina has premiered lost works by Vivaldi, Boccherini, and Mendelssohn, as well as works newly composed for her. She performs works for violin and orchestra ranging from the baroque period to Bartok and Piazzolla.

Tur Bonet teaches at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid and is Professor of Baroque Violin and Viola at the MHS Franz Liszt University in Weimar.

Performers

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
Directed by Lina Tur Bonet

Program

Vivaldi Concerto “Il Grosso Mogul” (Lina Tur Bonet, violin soloist)
Zelenka Sinfonia à 8 in a minor
Albicastro Concerto à 4 in c minor, Op. 7, no. 4
Geminiani Concerto 12 in d minor “La Folia”

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