About the Performance
This extraordinary youth orchestra performs with period instruments and for this concert has tripled its usual size, boasting 60 players. They are directed from the violin by Chiara Banchini, one of baroque music's most admired interpreters.
Here they perform a programme of music by contemporaries Corelli, Muffat, Geminiani and Handel who met in Rome in the late 1600s and early 1700s. Muffat's music is immediate and powerful, Corelli's coolly elegant, while Geminiani's La Follia, a reworking of Corelli's set of virtuoso variations, highlights his talent as one of the greatest violinists of his time. This concert also features Handel's musical tribute to Corelli, the Italianate Sonata a 5.
Chiara Banchini: 'a performance of considerable flair and brilliance.' The Herald Festival 07
'Scintillating is the only word for them - so alert, responsive and imaginative is their playing... I'd hazard a bet that EUBO boasts some future superstars' Independent on Sunday
This event will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s 'Performance on 3' programme at 7:00pm, 16 September 2009. The programme will then be available for streaming and download for one week at bbc.co.uk/iplayer.
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Supported by Léan Scully EIF Fund