Vivaldi: Avi Avital/ Venice Baroque Orchestra *****
Wigmore Hall, 22nd December 2018
Venice in December can have a sinister air, mists rising from the canals to silently shroud the city. Sometimes, the Basilica is invisible from the other side of the Piazza San Marco. A day after the Winter Solstice, however, Avi Avital threw off that wintry cloak to present a – mostly – sun-drenched Serenissima at Wigmore Hall. The Israeli mandolinist brought an authentic backing band too, the Venice Baroque Orchestra, in an ebullient evening largely focused on the city’s Red Priest himself, Antonio Vivaldi.
Avi Avital
© Zohar Ron
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