ASMF & Anastasia Kobekina

1 November 2024, 19:30
Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London

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1 November
Friday
Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields is joined by cellist Anastasia Kobekina, winner of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival 2024 Leonard Bernstein Award. Described by Le Figaro as an “unrivalled musician”, Kobekina will perform Haydn’s C major cello concerto, a masterpiece that was lost and unheard for almost two centuries. This unearthed treasure of a concerto, which pushes the boundaries of the baroque form, was written during Haydn’s earliest years in Eisenstadt with the Esterházy family around the time he was composing his first symphonies.

Kobekina also performs Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne, one of several spin offs from his hugely popular ballet Pulcinella, which Stravinsky had based on music he had believed was by Pergolesi but was in fact by Domenico Gallo, whose Follia also features in this programme.

 

PROGRAMME

Stravinsky Concerto in Eb ‘Dumbarton Oaks’

Haydn Cello Concerto in C major, Hob.VIIb:1

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Biber Battalia

Stravinsky Suite Italienne

Gallo Follia

 

Academy of St Martin in the Fields is the principal orchestral partner of the St Martin-in-the-Fields, which is its historic home.

 

This evening’s concert marks the opening of ASMF’s 2024/25 London Season.  If you would like to support ASMF’s celebrated Social Purpose Programme and join our friends and supporters for pre-concert, interval and post-concert receptions on this occasion then please use this form or email georginahamilton@asmf.org