AAM - South American connections

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South American connections Music from the New World and influences from the Old Juanita Lascarro soprano Rodolfo Richter director & violin 24 November 25 November

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge Wigmore Hall, London

Welcome! In a year when the AAM’s musicmaking centres on the work of the Bach family, tonight’s concert promises something rather different. In curating this programme, Rodolfo Richter returns to his South American roots. All of the music you will hear is centred around South America — whether written by South American composers (Lobo de Mesquita), European-born composers who worked in South America (Zipoli and Torrejón y Velasco) or the Europeans who influenced them (Hasse, Alessandro Scarlatti, Corrette and Handel).

Some of the works are well known; others are being heard for perhaps the first time in centuries. Rodolfo has persuaded a secretive collector to allow him to play Lobo de Mesquita’s Adagio and Fugue in G minor; he has reconstructed the anonymous Sonata Chiquitana XVIII from manuscripts found in Brazil and Bolivia; and the Cachua, a late 17th-century Peruvian folk melody, forms the core — as it would in the past — of a semi-improvised ‘jamming session’. We are delighted to be joined for the first time by soprano Juanita Lascarro. South American baroque music has been neglected; tonight’s programme shows just how undeserved this is.

Special offer: free CD with Wigmore Hall tickets Buy a pair of tickets for any of the AAM’s Wigmore Hall concerts up to March 2011, and you’ll get the AAM’s Wigmore Hall Live CD for free. The CD features music by Handel, Bach and Vivaldi, and was described by Gramophone as “an electrifying survey of baroque concertos... unflaggingly alert, playful and dramatic”. To take advantage of this offer, simply call the Wigmore Hall box office on 020 7935 2141, or visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk.

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