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In the context of International Women’s Rights Day, Arion Baroque Orchestra promises as many tears of joy as of sorrow—sometimes both at once—throughout this program built around the name Marie, an unavoidable one if ever there was one.
Marie, as in the mother of Christ at the foot of the cross in the moving cantata Il pianto di Maria by Giuseppe Battista Ferrandini, but also as in the first name of two eighteenth-century composers who left their mark on opera—Grimani and Agnesi.
For this program, Arion welcomes—fittingly—women of great talent: the contralto Anthea Pichanick and conductor and harpsichordist Marie van Rhijn, invited by PAN M 360 to give us a preview of the two performances scheduled for Saturday, March 7 at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, March 8 at 2:30 p.m.
Alexandre Villemaire spoke with Marie via video call so that she could tell us about… Marie.
PROGRAM
Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)
Cantate Cessate, omai cessate, RV 684
Concerto in D minor for strings and basso continuo RV 129, « Madrigalesco »
Maria Margherita Grimani (fl. 1713–1715)
Cantate Pallade e Marte (extraits)
Intermission
Maria Teresa Agnesi (1720–1795)
Serenata Ulisse in Campania (extraits)
Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (1709–1791)
Cantate Il pianto di Maria
