Photos: Sergio Betancort
The 35th edition of the Canary Islands Music Festival filled the Santo Domingo Convent in Teguise with its music last Sunday night with the Tenerife Baroque Orchestra, the resident group of the Adán Martín Auditorium in the capital of Tenerife, created in 2017
Heir to the formidable degree of maturity acquired by Spanish early music, the Tenerife Baroque Orchestra was born as a result of the rise and quality of interpretive groups with historical instruments and styles with the aim of bringing new audiences closer to all musical forms of the 17th and 18th centuries from Monteverdi to Bach, through the styles and instruments of the time.
Adrián Linares, concertmaster, director and great professional, knowledgeable of each of the works chosen for the concert, more than achieved his objective, with the professional complicity of the 12 colleagues, who made their instruments, including violins, violas, cellos, violone, theorbo, harpsichord and authentic baroque replicas, sound in unison.
The Tenerife Baroque Orchestra began its concert with the 'Sinfonia per violine a basso a concertino e concerto grosso di strumenti' by the Italian composer, Alessandro Stradella, continuing with works by great Italian masters such as Arcangelo Corelli, Evaristo Felice dall'Abaco, Tomaso Giovanni Alinoni and Francesco Geminiani. The audience, very enthusiastic and standing, applauded them, and the musicians, very grateful, presented them with several encores.
