Sonia Prina, Alina Pogostkina, Dorothea Oberlinger; Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca
Wigmore Hall, 7th February 2019
Many violin concertos were inspired by great virtuosos, players with dazzling international reputations. Think Niccolò Paganini, Joseph Joachim or Eugène Ysaÿe. But how about Anna Maria della Pietà? The clue is in the name, for Pietà was not her surname but a reference to the Ospedale della Pietà, an orphanage in Venice. Anna Maria was deposited there in 1696, a baby posted through a flap in the wall. By the age of eight, her violin playing had caught the eye – and ear – of Antonio Vivaldi, music director of the all-female “coro” which entertained high class Venetian audiences.
Alina Pogostkina
© Nikolaj Lund
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