Fremantle Chamber Orchestra: Music and Dance at Fremantle Town Hall
Fremantle Town Hall 8 William St, Fremantle, WA, Australia
Locatelli’s Il pianto d’Arianna (the weeping of Ariadne) uses the fragment of a lost Monteverdi opera telling of Theseus’s abandonment of Ariadne. A solo violin sobs on Ariadne’s behalf. The final Largo, strewn with silences, eventually twists into the hopeful smile of a major key. Mozart and Beethoven contemporary Leopold…
