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Les Violons du Roy with Avi Avital

Les Violons du Roy with Avi Avital
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Venue: Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall Tickets start at $28.00

Overview

Les Violons du Roy
Julian Wachner, conductor/harpsichord
Avi Avital, mandolin

MENDELSSOHN: Variations Concertantes, Op. 17
R. SCHUMANN: Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR PERKINSON: Lamentations: Black/Folk Song Suite for solo cello
BARTÓK: Rhapsody No. 1 for Cello and Piano
FRANCK: Sonata in A major for Cello and Piano

VIVALDI: Concerto for Lute and Two Violins in D major, RV 93 (arr. by Avi Avital)
VIVALDI: Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op. 3, No. 2, RV 578
BACH: Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV 1052 (arr. & transc. by Avi Avital)
VIVALDI: Mandolin Concerto in C major, RV 425
BACH: The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 (excerpts)
BACH: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, BWV 1041 (arr. by Avi Avital)

Les Violons du Roy takes its name from the celebrated court orchestra of the French kings. Its performances match as closely as possible to the period of each work’s composition, as its minimum fifteen-member complement plays modern instruments, albeit with period bows for Baroque and Classical music, and its interpretations are deeply informed by the latest research on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century performance practice.

The first solo mandolinist to be nominated for a Grammy Award, Avi Avital has released four recordings for the label including his ECHO Klassik Award-winning Vivaldi (2015). Avital’s inspired music-making has electrified audiences in performances around the world, and has appeared with orchestras such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Israel Philharmonic, St Louis Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal under conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Kent Nagano, Osmo Vänskä, Ton Koopman and Giovanni Antonini.

Running time (approximate): 2 hours

Audience Advisory:

All ticket holders must wear a mask AND provide proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 or a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken within 72 hours of performance.

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