Antonio Caldara |
Christmas Special Event: Cantata di Natale Vaticini di Pace. Cantata a quattro Voci Del Signore Antonio Caldara. Friday 19th of December at 8 PM. St. Augustine’s Catholic Church; Eaton Street, BALMAIN.
Belinda Montgomery Soprano
Nicole Thomson Mezzo-Soprano
Nicole Smeulders Alto
Richard Black Tenor
with Stan Kornel & Fiona Ziegler baroque violins
Annika Stagg baroque cello
Peter McLean baroque bass
Monika Kornel harpsichord
Tickets at door: $30 / $20.
For more information regarding the Sydney Consort, please visit our web site: www.sydneyconsort.com.au
Please uphold the Christmas tradition and consider inviting your partner (and as many friends as you like) for our Christmas Cantata performance.
The Sydney Consort would like to thank you for your support and attendance at our performances over the last years.
Coming to our concerts is very important to us as it helps us to employ musicians for other music projects.
We are inviting you to our very special concert, hoping our ensemble can encourage you to be part of this forgotten, yet beautiful composition.
In 1713 the Venetian-born Antonio Caldara (1670-1736) was to provide the Cantata da recitarsi la Notte del Natale nel Palazzo Apostolico. This composition is a religious work, composed solely for Christmas Eve and is hardly obtainable. The manuscript is in the museum in Muenster (Germany), and the new edition was prepared by professor Brian Pritchard in New Zealand (Musicologist-School of Music, University of Canterbury, Christchurch), who kindly let us use his edition for this performance.
With best wishes,
The Sydney Consort
From Wikipedia: Antonio Caldara (1670 or 1671 - December 26, 1736) was an Italian Baroque composer.
Caldara was born in Venice (exact date unknown), the son of a violinist. He became a chorister at St Mark's in Venice, where he learned several instruments, probably under the instruction of Giovanni Legrenzi. In 1699 he relocated to Mantua, where he became maestro di cappella to the inept Charles IV, Duke of Mantua, a pensionary of France with a French wife, who took the French side in the War of the Spanish Succession. Caldara removed from Mantua in 1707, after the French were expelled from Italy, then moved on to Barcelona as chamber composer to Charles VI of Austria, the pretender to the Spanish throne who kept a royal court at Barcelona.
There, he wrote some operas that are the first Italian operas performed at Spain. He moved on to Rome, becoming maestro di cappella to Francesco Maria Marescotti Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Cerveteri. While there he wrote "Faithfulness in Love Defeats Treachery" for the public theatre at Macerata. In 1716, he obtained a similar post in Vienna to serve the Imperial Court, and there he remained until his death.
Caldara is best known as a composer of operas, cantatas and oratorios. Several of his works have libretti by Metastasio.
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