Performance on 3 - 05/11/2007

With Tom Service. All of the works in this programme were written for the church of Santa Maria de La Pieta in Venice, where Vivaldi taught, and with specific performers in mind, the foundling girls of the Pieta. During Vivaldi's lifetime, these famous girls were celebrated as one of Europe's finest collections of musicians. In this concert at St John's Smith Square, the perfect location in which to recreate the musical space of the old Pieta, one of Britain's finest period orchestras replaces the girls. Vivaldi: Lauda Jerusalem, RV 609; Violin Concerto in D, RV 617; Salve Regina, RV 212; Concerto for 2 violins and 2 organs, RV 584; Gloria, RV 589 Joanne Lunn (soprano) Kati Debretzeni (violin) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Schola Pietatis Antonio Vivaldi Pavlo Beznosiuk (director/violin).