Pratum Integrum concerts 2009/2010

21 September 2009
St Petersburg Philharmonic Small Hall, 19.00
Grand Baroque Concert

Pratum Integrum will perform in St Petersburg as part of the Early Music International Festival. This programme includes the best pieces from the orchestra’s repertoire, already well-known among our regular audiences. In the first part of the concert Pratum will play Rebel’s ‘choreographed symphonies’ ‘Caprice’ and ‘Les Elemens’ and also one of Platti’s twenty-eight concertos for cello. The second half devoted to Telemann features his G Major Concerto Grosso (TWV 52:G1), the Orchestral Suite in A Minor (TWV 55:a3) and Triple Concerto in E Minor with solo flutes and violin (TWV 53:e1).

10 October 2009
Moscow International House of Music Chamber Hall, 19.00
Musical Presentations

Many foreign musicians working in Russia in the late 18th and early 19th centuries honoured Emperor Alexander I. We present Eberl’s Quartet Op.13 No.3 dedicated to the monarch, a symphony to mark his coronation by an unknown author and also Hassler’s Piano Trio written for the Emperor’s consort Elisabeth Alexeyevna. Dutchman Carolus Antonius Fodor also paid tribute to Russia during this period. Olga Martynova will play his Piano Concerto, which uses several motifs from the first Russian opera, ‘The Miller who was a Wizard, Cheat and Matchmaker’.

4 November 2009
Moscow International House of Music Svetlanov Hall, 19.00
Human Voices

Pavel Karmanov’s new composition will be played by musicians with profoundly different aesthetic approaches and performance credos. Alexei Utkin’s contemporary oboe will be heard simultaneously with Paolo Grazzi’s historical oboe, and the Hermitage Orchestra will perform side by side with Pratum Integrum. The musicians will also perform separately: the ‘traditionalists’ present pieces by Britten and Bruch, the ‘authenticists’ by Platti and Telemann. One group will play in the modern musical tuning, the others in the lower tuning historically correct for 17th- to 18th-century music.

7 November 2009
Moscow International House of Music Chamber Hall, 19.00
The Complete Suites of Telemann

The majority of Telemann’s diverse and superbly orchestrated overtures are unknown by the wider public to this day. To fill the gap Pratum Integrum continues to record a series of albums presenting the composer’s complete works in this genre. For this concert the orchestra will play several overtures never before performed in Russia.

11 December 2009
Moscow International House of Music Chamber Hall, 19.00
Barocco Robusto

Concertos by Fasch, Scarlatti and Vivaldi for various instruments and orchestra. In addition you can hear Telemann’s ‘Sonatas in the Style of Corelli’ (TWV 42) reworked as concerti grossi. This transcription was undertaken by contemporary German musicologist Peter Huth to comply with arrangements traditional in the first half of the 18th century.

22 January 2010
Moscow International House of Music Chamber Hall, 19.00
Frederick II’s Musical Platzdarm

From childhood Prussian King Frederick the Great loved the flute, philosophy and dancing, and after ascending to the throne he turned Berlin into a major European music capital. Integrum Pratum will play the king’s Symphony with other compositions by royal courtiers – the flautist Quantz and harpsichord-player C.P.E. Bach. Also in the programme is a Harpsichord Concert by Muthel, who was not one of Frederick’s court musicians but wrote in the ‘Berlin’ style.

19 February 2010
Moscow International House of Music Chamber Hall, 19.00
Beethoven in C

Beethoven’s C major and C minor compositions in various genres are planned for this concert, including the fiery Piano Trio in C Minor (Op.1) dedicated to Prince Karl Lichnowsky and the First Symphony in C Major written for Baron Gottfried van Swieten.

19 March
Moscow International House of Music Chamber Hall, 19.00
Boccherini in Quarto

Like his illustrious uncle Frederick the Great, Frederick Wilhelm II loved the musical arts. He himself played the cello and decided to employ Luigi Boccherini while the cellist and composer was residing in Spain. On assuming his post at the court of the Prussian king Boccherini was spared the journey to Prussia: the great musician began regularly dispatching his compositions to Frederick from Madrid. Boccherini wrote several hundred instrumental compositions, but in this concert we perform just four: the Symphonies in D Major and C Minor (G 516 and G 519), a Cello Concerto (G 483) and an Octet for Flute, Horn, Bassoon, Two Violins, Viola and Two Cellos (G 470).