23 September 2011, Friday

Moscow International House of Music Chamber Hall, 19.00

The Pratum Integrum orchestra will perform with celebrated French countertenor Damien Guillon. Two solo cantatas for alto and orchestra are included in the concert: Bach's church cantata No. 170 'Vergnüјgte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust' ('Delightful rest, beloved pleasure of the soul') and Vivaldi's secular cantata 'Cessate, Omai Cessate' ('Cease, henceforth cease'). The orchestra will also play two instrumental works: the Concerto Grosso in F major by Handel (HWV 327) and Concerto Grosso in G major by Georg Muffat from the Armonico Tributo collection.

14 October 2011
Moscow International House of Music Chamber Hall, 19.00
Bach's Children
(2nd concert of the cycle)

After beginning last season with the music of Wilhelm Friedemann, the Bach's Children cycle now offers a programme of compositions by his brother Carl Philipp Emanuel. The orchestra will play his Symphony in D major (Wq 183/1) and the Symphony in G Major (Wq 182/1), the Concerto in A major for flute, strings and bass continuo (Wq 168) and the Concerto in D minor for harpsichord, strings and bass continuo (Wq 23).

26 October 2011
Gnesin Academy of Music Concert Hall, 19.00

The Pratum Integrum orchestra will perform as part of the 'Musical Italy: View from Russia' festival. The programme features the well-known Concerto Grosso by Corelli ending with the Christmas Pastorale (Op. 6, No. 8). The audience will also hear two Vivaldi concertos: the Bassoon Concerto in A minor (RV 497) and the famous Violin Concerto in D minor (RV 242) dedicated to Pisendel. The latter work, as well as 'The Four Seasons', is included in the collection 'Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione' ('The Contest between Harmony and Invention').

11 November 2011
Moscow International House of Music Chamber Hall, 19.00

Complete Suites of Telemann
(3rd concert of the cycle)

As before the orchestra focuses on the work of Telemann. Pratum Integrum continues to record his diverse orchestral suites and present them to concertgoers. On this occasion the suites are accompanied by the Double Concerto in A minor for solo recorder and viola da gamba (soloists: Olga Ivusheikova, Pavel Serbin) and the Triple Concerto in E major for viola d'amore, oboe d'amore and flute (soloists: Pavel Filchenko, Philipp Nodel, Ekaterina Driazzhina).

15 December 2011
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, 19.00
(Moscow, ul. Volkhonka, 12)

Concert by the Pratum Integrum orchestra
as part of the December Evenings festival

From the 18th to early 19th century London was an important centre for European music. Since there were few outstanding English composers, foreign composers gladly converged on the city.  This programme presents music by European composers whose destiny was linked in some way with the English capital: Johann Christian Bach, Joseph Haydn and Joseph Wolfl. Also included is theatrical music by the English composer Thomas Linley. His works for violin and theatre promised talent of truly European dimensions, but Linley's genius was cut in the bud when he drowned in a boating accident, aged just 22.

23 December 2011
Moscow International House of Music Chamber Hall, 19.00

Baroque Grand Christmas Concert

The genre of concerto grosso popular during the Baroque epoch was based on the contraposition of a small group of soloists (concertino) and a full-scale orchestra (ripieno). The concert programme presents concerti grossi by Arcalengo Corelli that were widely acclaimed during the composer's lifetime and also Charles Avison's concerti grossi adapted from the keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti.

26 January 2012
Moscow International House of Music Chamber Hall, 19.00

Only Purcell

Pratum Integrum devotes this monographic concert to Henry Purcell. The concert includes excerpts from the opera 'Queen of the Fairies', the ode 'Hail, bright Cecilia' written for the feast day of St. Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians (soloist-countertenor – Dmitry Sinkovsky), and several fantasias for consort of viols.

16 March 2012
Moscow International House of Music Chamber Hall, 19.00

Classical Games
(4th concert of the cycle)

The annual cycle Classical Games is continued with a new programme of works by both major and minor composers. This time the orchestra decided that Haydn's music would be pleasantly complemented by symphonies from Antonio Rosetti and Leopold Kozeluch, with a piano quintet by Johann Baptist Vanhal.

27 April 2012
Moscow International House of Music Chamber Hall, 19.00

Stylus Phantasticus

Our season will end with music by early Baroque composers, namely Heinrich Franz von Biber and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer – famous in their day as virtuoso violinists. In addition the orchestra will perform the Concerto Grosso in C major by Theodor Schwarzkopf for numerous soloists (two violins, two violas, two viola da gamba, two oboes, bassoon, trumpet) and bass continuo, as well as a sonata by Georg Muffat from the 'Armonico Tributo' ('Harmonious Tribute') collection that combines the features of a sonata, concerto grosso and suite in one remarkable piece.