Fo(u)r Violins Only - L’Orfeolinisti in concert

Fo(u)r Violins Only

Music for …
1 violin by Giuseppe Tartini, Johann Joseph Vilsmayr, Nicola Matteis and Balduin Sulzer
2 violins by Jacques Aubert and Paul Hindemith
3 violins by Johann Joseph Fux, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier and Richard Hofmann
4 violins by Georg Philipp Telemann, Richard Rudolf Klein and Witold Lutosławski

L’Orfeolinisti – the violinists of L’Orfeo Barockorchester
Julia Huber, Martin Jopp, Sabine Reiter, Elisabeth Wiesbauer violin

The violin is a richly gifted instrument in the world of chamber music, but mostly in combination with other instrument groups. A single violin often faces the challenge of performing major works. When two, three or even four violins play together, one usually thinks of educational duos or torturous student recitals. L’Orfeolinisti prove that this can be quite different in their programme featuring music from the Baroque to the modern era. The programme centres on Telemann’s Concerti for 4 Violins without Bass (TWV 40:201-203), around which all possible interpretations are woven, from the fantastical to the contemplative, from the scholarly to the lively, from the virtuosic to the lyrical, creating an auditory journey through the world of the violin.