GOOD FRIDAY CONCERT

TALLINN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Conductor and countertenor RISTO JOOST

Programme:

Arcangelo Corelli Concerto grosso, Op. 6 No. 1

Antonio Vivaldi “Filiae maestae Jerusalem”, RV 638

Arcangelo Corelli Concerto grosso, Op. 6 No. 3

Antonio Vivaldi “Stabat Mater”, RV 621

Arcangelo Corelli Concerto grosso, Op. 6 No. 12

The programme consists of the works of two great Baroque composers – Antonio Vivaldi and Arcangelo Corelli. The concerto grosso as a genre was born in the Baroque period, they are performed by a Baroque trio (concertino) and a larger orchestra (ripieno). Corelli’s twelve concerto grossos are his finest works, this concert’s programme includes three of them.

Vivaldi’s works, with conductor Risto Joost as a soloist, deepen the concert’s mood. „Filiae maestae Jerusalem” tells of the mourning daughters of Jerusalem and “Stabat Mater” of a mother’s sadness:

Stabat Mater dolorosa,         At the Cross her station keeping

juxta crucem lacrimosa,        stood the mournful Mother weeping,

dum pendebat Filius.             close to her Son to the last.