Vivaldi’s FOUR SEASONS rediscovered

Francisco Fullana, violin – Four Seasons
Alan Choo & Emi Tanabe, violin – La Folia
René Schiffer & Sarah Stone, cello – Vivaldi Double Cello Concerto

Apollo’s Fire launches the 30th Anniversary Season with a splash! Not your mother’s Four Seasons…. Jeannette Sorrell and Francisco Fullana become musical storytellers – celebrating along with the 18th-century Italian peasants, whose joys and sorrows Vivaldi described so vividly. Dueling cellists evoke Vivaldi’s rock-n’-roll personality in the stormy Concerto for Two Cellos. The party ends in exuberant madness when the group whips up Vivaldi’s La Folia (“Madness”).

“Sorrell’s vivid approach makes these familiar works seem freshly minted, full of astonishing incident. Exhilarating… the tension exploded in the final squall.”
– SEEN & HEARD INTERNATIONAL (UK)
Thursday, October 21, 7:30pm – St. Raphael Catholic Church, BAY VILLAGE
Friday, October 22, 7:30pm – CLEVELAND Museum of Art*
Saturday, October 23, 8:00pm – BATH United Church of Christ
Sunday, October 24, 4:00pm – CLEVELAND Museum of Art*
Monday, October 25, 7:30pm – St. Noel Catholic Church, WILLOUGHBY HILLS

*with projected images

Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts

with additional support from Glenmede

Special thanks to Compact Disc Sponsor: Mr. Robert Conrad