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Luka Pianka, archlute  Vittorio Ghielmi, viola da gamba
Running time:
2 parts by 40 minutes
6+

Рrogramme:

Marin Marais
Prelude – Ballet – 
La Rêveuse – Arabesque

Robert de Visée
Prelude – Sarabande – Musette

Antoine Forqueray
Allemanda – La Girouette – La Portugaise

Robert de Visée
“Sylvanes de monsieur Couperaine”
Passacaglia

Antoine Forqueray
Suite №2 for viola da gamba and basso continuo


11 November 2019 Monday 19.00 Chamber hall
19.00 Chamber hall

Luka Pianka, archlute
Vittorio Ghielmi, viola da gamba

Two of the greatest baroque players, Luka Pianka and Vittorio Ghielmi, perform in “Zaryadye” for the first time. Experts in baroque music and passionate players, they both have a reputation of musicians who changed an approach to their respective instruments, its abilities, and repertoire. Pianka and Ghielmi still play as duo, though both of them have been leading and conducting their own ensembles for a long time now.

At “Zaryadye”, they play virtuosi French pieces of late 17th – early 18th century, written by Marin Marais, Antoine Forqueray, and Robert de Visée. A local columnist in Boston, after having heard a similar programme of the duo, noted that “Concerts like that remind us that the very word ‘virtuoso’ used to be applied to clever performers, musicians with immaculate taste, rather than those who try to impress audience with their technique”.

Luka Pianka is one of the founding fathers of the legendary Il Giardino Armonico. He’s lutenist, conductor, and the leader of Claudiana ensemble. He has released more than fifty albums, including all Bach’s and Vivaldi’s lute pieces. In 1991, he took part in seminal recording of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” – a bold, controversial, yet important recording that became a new standard for baroque music performance. During his career, Pianka played with stars as large as Cecilia Bartoli and Victoria Mullova. He’s being presenting concert series “All Bach’s Cantatas” in Wiener Konzerthaus.

Pianka has played several concerts in Moscow, with La Voce Strumentale led by Dmitry Sinkovsky. You can listen to him play again, and again with this very ensemble, on the Novenber 13th. Pianka plays archlute, that is actually a bass lute, that bears similarity to theorbo. This pattern to this very instrument is a Florence instrument of 17th century, and it has a distinctive sonorous sound with rich timber.

Vittorio Ghielmi is gambist, conductor, and composer. He is a professor in Salzburg Mozarteum, visiting professor of London Royal College, and he gives regular clinics in many Universities, academies, and conservatories, including the legendary Julliard School. An acclaimed virtuoso, he’s the founding father of Il Suonar Parlante. Over the years, Harmonia Mundi, Decca, Sony, Opus 111, and other revered classical labels released several dozens of his recordings that get several dozens of international music prizes.