Performances of oratorios and large-scale vocal works became more common after this. It continued assembling as needed for recordings and performances with the group until the mid-1990s, when the decision was made to make it a regular choir on a level with the orchestra, in preparation for their performance of Bach’s Mass in B Minor. The Choir of the English Concert (or permutations of that phrase), was formed in 1983 to perform Rameau’s Acante et Céphise. Nadja Zwiener has been orchestra leader (concertmaster) since September 2007 (as of February 2015). Founded in 1972 and directed from the harpsichord by Trevor Pinnock for 30 years, it is now directed by harpsichordist Harry Bicket. The English Concert is a baroque orchestra performing using period instruments based in London.

The English Concert and Choir performs Antonio Vivaldi’s Gloria RV 589 Some of the (male) interest was clearly voyeuristic, as the girls performed in galleries, cloaked behind metal grills. Public performances took place in chapels and drew travelers from around Europe.

There were between 40 and 60 students in a coro (chorus). The Pietà was one of four ospedali grandi (large hospitals) in Venice and home to nearly a thousand students. Much of Vivaldi’s sacred vocal and instrumental music was written for performance at the Pietà. This piece, along with its mother composition RV 588, was composed at the same time during Vivaldi’s employment at the Ospedale della Pietà (Pietà hospital) as maestro di violino, a convent, orphanage, and music school in Venice.Īntonio Vivaldi was appointed a violin teacher in 1703 and served in various roles through 1715, and again from 1723 to 1740. RV 589 is the best-known setting of the Gloria, simply known as the Vivaldi “Gloria” due to its great popularity. It was probably written at about the same time as the RV 588, possibly in 1715. RV 589 Gloria is a familiar and popular piece among sacred works by Vivaldi. Vivaldi wrote at least three settings of the hymn, Gloria in Excelsis Deo, and two of them survived: RV 588, and RV 589.Ī third, RV 590, is mentioned only in the Kreuzherren catalog and presumed lost. It is an integral part of the Ordinary of the Mass. The words of the hymn date probably from the 4th century. Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Vivaldi – Gloria, RV 589 – Trevor Pinnock () Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria, RV 589 – Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Antonio Vivaldi’s Gloria RV 589

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