<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt; margin:0cm 0cm 6pt"><font face=""Arial","sans-serif""><font size="2"><font color="#001000"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">M<span style="background-position: 0% 0%; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto;">ark Forkgen conducts London Concert Choir and Counterpoint in a concert of Baroque favourites, which opens with Vivaldi’s radiant Gloria, composed in around 1715 for the girls of a Venetian orphanage. After being lost for two centuries, the Gloria came to light in the 1920s and has become his most popular choral work.</span></font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="color:#333333">Bach’s splendid large-scale festive setting of the Latin </span></span></span><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="color:#333333">Magnificat</span></span></span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="color:#333333"> was first performed in Leipzig on Christmas Day 1723. Jubilant and impressive choruses are interspersed with reflective solos. In his third orchestral suite, an overture and cheerful dances in the French style surround the serene slow movement, also known as ‘</span></span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="color:#333333">Air on the G String</span></span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="color:#333333">.’</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt"> </p>
