Violin star Chloe Kim and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra travel to Corelli's Italy and beyond, online January 19
At Early Music Vancouver, the dazzling “La Follia” varations and more
Early Music Vancouver presents Prophets Outside Their Country: Corelli & The Italians, online on January 19 at 7:30 pm
BRILLIANT YOUNG violin star Chloe Kim is a Baroque specialist who’s known to meticulously research anything she plans to put in front of the public.
So she’s just the person to transport us out of dreary Vancouver January and back in time to late-17th and early-18th-century, sunbaked Rome.
In this Early Music Vancouver concert with the equally exacting Pacific Baroque Orchestra, the Juilliard grad will play violinist-composer Arcangelo Corelli’s dazzling Sonata in D Minor, Op.5 No. 12, “La Follia” variations from 1700. If you need any proof that Kim knows how to interpret this famous series of variations, scroll down to the video of her doing just that, below. Mesmerizing, exacting, and expressive, with each variation taking on its own engrossing mood and persona—anything but the “folly” referred to in the title.
Elsewhere on this Prophets Outside Their Country program, she and the other musicians, under the leadership of Alexander Weimann, will explore the other Italian composers indebted to Corelli, a master of violin technique whose influence echoed down through the centuries. Some, like Francesco Geminiani, studied with Corelli directly; others, like Pietro Antonio Locatelli, did not. All of them left their home country to seek fame and fortune—thus, the title of this concert.
Likewise, this streamed show by one of the violin world's most exciting young early-music talents promises to be exquisite enough to transport you out of your own home situation—even as you watch it from your living room couch.
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