The little chorus with the highly unusual programming is back this weekend. If you're interested in great music that doesn't get performed that often, you should really be following Chora Nova. Director Paul Flight has an interesting mind, but he really let's himself go with the Novistas. Sure, the Vivaldi Dixit Dominus is anchoring the show, but you'll also discover a little-heard work by Giovanni Pergolesi, the musical genius who rocked the world before dying at the advanced age of 26.
Pergolesi and Vivaldi were two of the primary sparks in the 18th-century, Italian “galant” style, and their influence shows up in Baldassare Galuppi, who was actually born four years before Pergolesi and died quite a bit after. (He lived to 78 — must have been that Venetian cooking.)
You can count yourself lucky if you've heard any of Galuppi's music live, but he is, nevertheless, a great composer, one of the most celebrated names in midcentury Europe. Don't miss the opportunity to hear his dramatic work, the Nisi Dominus, which closes this concert.