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Music x Museums presented by Viking is an immersive new concert series, inviting audiences into London’s most iconic cultural institutions to experience performances blending classical music with the capital’s most impressive architecture and collections of art.
For the opening concert filmed at the Raphael Court at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields with conductor Oliver Zeffman and countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński present an exciting programme inspired by the V&A’s exhibition ‘Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear’.
The programme includes:
Lully Le Bourgeois gentilhomme – Overture (arr. A. Gies)
Cavalli ‘Lucidissima face’ from La Calisto
Handel ‘Siam prossimi al porto’ from Rinaldo
Handel ‘Furibondo spira il vento’ from Partenope
Caroline Shaw Entr’acte
Handel ‘Cara sposa’ from Rinaldo
Handel ‘Agitato da fiere tempeste’ from Riccardo Primo
Stravinsky Apollo