MOZART MANDOLIN VIDEOS episode 1

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Sonata per mandolino e cembalo Köchel-Verz. 379 (373 a)
Adagio / Allegro. Dedicato a Josepha von Aurnhammer Vienna 1781.

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CAMERATA MANDOLINO CLASSICO
has received international recognition as a skilled interpreter of Venetian baroque music. The ensemble has made numerous and extensive tours in Japan, Germany, Austria, Spain, Italy and Sweden.

LARS FORSLUND - mandolin
Lars Forslund is Artistic Director of the Vivaldi Festival in Venice and Sweden. With his best friend and mandolin teacher Keith Harris, he also organise concerts and seminars at The Mandolin Academy in Venice. Lars lived in Rome as a child, studied Italian in Florence and lives since 1998 part of the year in Venice. Please visit www.mandolin.academy for more information.

OUR CONCERTS
has been critically acclaimed and hugely appreciated by standing ovation from an enthusiastic audience.

A review from Venice at the Basilica dei Frari:
“The musicality of Lars Forslund was revealed especially in the “Adagio” of the Sonatina in C minor for mandolin and harpsichord by Beethoven, which was rendered with subtlety of phrasing and subtle nuances of expression. ”Letizia Michielon, Il Gazzettino

A review from Venice at the Palazzo Querini:
“Forslund was the master of about every nuance of dynamics and tone you could imagine in the mandolin, as well as some you might not. He could make the instrument sharp and piercing, as well as muted and dark. Michel Miller Berkshire Review

JAPAN AND THE MANDOLIN
In the eighties and nineties, worked and studied Lars in Kobe in Japan for the Master Yasuo Kuwahara, and also learned the Japanese language. Then they developed a long partnership, in the field of mandolin music, between Japan and Sweden. 1983 played Lars and Yasuo in Das Deutsche Zupforchester under the leadership of Siegfried Beherend and with Takashi Ochi as concertmaster.

MANDOLIN PLAYING IN SWEDISH TV 1982
Lars founded Sweden's first international mandolin festival at Visingsö in Sweden. At the festival he made a recording with the mandolin and guitar orchestra Musica Festiva. Music by Vivaldi from the disc became the theme song of SVT's Italian language course “Buon giorno Italia”.

Most recently Lars was mandolin soloist at the Venice Carnival 2016 and cicerone, along with Ann Lundberg, in a popular television program by SVT.

A NEW VIDEO PROJECT: A MUSICAL JOURNEY IN 18TH CENTURY EUROPE
SYNOPSIS: "Two musicians on tour in 18th century Europe"
The musicians Lorenzo Cristiano Torrentini-Boschetto, who plays the mandolin, and harpsichordist Anna-Maria Gloria Vittoria Massiniani-Legrenzi tour around 18th-century Europe and meet exciting personalities, politicians, those in power, artists and writers. They tour in many countries and meet musical geniuses such as Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Carl Michael Bellman and a number of distinguished French baroque composers such as Francois Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Jean-Frédéric Edelmann to name a few , all inspired by their predecessors in the French music style, namely Jean-Baptiste Lully. On their adventurous journeys, they also meet royalty, successors of Louis XIV, at the Palace of Versailles, Gustav III at Drottningholm Castle, Stockholm, and Napoleon Bonaparte, outside Paris.

Difficulties, inaccessible roads, snowstorms in the Alps, thunder, torrential rain, landslides, diseases and misery they constantly encounter during the risky and adventurous journeys in 18th century Europe. They are exposed to robbers, pirates and bandits and can barely get around on the dangerous roads. Sometimes they get stranded and have to wait for days before the journey can continue. But the reward is the fantastic people they meet on their travels, the hospitality, the hospitality and the appreciation of the enthusiastic audience at the musical salons they constantly hold around Europe. They often perform in Venice and give concerts in churches and palaces. They also appear frequently in France, Germany and Austria and the longest trips lead all the way to Stockholm in Sweden where they appear at Drottningholm Castle, Gimo Castle and many other important and interesting places in Sweden.

Lorenzo Cristiano Torrentini-Boschetto started playing the violin in the Royal Court Chapel in Stockholm at the age of 16 years old. There he was, one evening, asked to play the mandolin at an opera performance and shortly afterwards he moved back to Venice to develop his mandolin playing to a higher level.

Anna-Maria Gloria Vittoria Massiniani-Legrenzi began her musical career in the Netherlands and later studied harpsichord playing in Paris. After many years abroad, she also returned to Venice and became a sought after harpsichordist, before the great travels and long tours in Europe took off.