Baroque Music Festival, Corona del Mar
June 23 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
$50The Festival strives to present the astounding wealth and diversity of music of the Baroque era (c. 1600-1750) in a wide variety of ways, at affordable prices. Large-scale works, with and without singers, are typically offered on our Sunday concerts, while during the weekday evenings between you will hear smaller scale vocal and chamber performances, all given by the finest musicians in the historically informed Baroque field.
June 16: London Fog, Italian Sunshine
Soloists from the Festival Orchestra will bring out the southern sun to banish the northern fog through the influence of Italian Baroque composers. Come for J.C. (“The London”) Bach’s Italianate Sinfonia Concertante for violin and cello, concerti grossi by Corelli, Geminiani (arranging Corelli) and Avison (arranging Scarlatti), Handel’s organ concerto “Cuckoo and Nightingale” and more—performed by the Festival Orchestra led by Elizabeth Blumenstock.
William Boyce (1711-1779): Symphony No. 2 in A Major
Charles Avison (1709-1770): Concerto Grosso No. 3 in D Minor, after Scarlatti
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759): Organ Concerto in F Major “Cuckoo and Nightingale” – soloist Corey Jamason
Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762): Concerto Grosso in D Minor, H.143 “La Follia,” after Corelli
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Maurice Greene (1696-1755): Overture in D Major
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713): Concerto Grosso in F Major Op. 6, No. 2
Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782): Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Cello in A Major W C.34
Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin
Alex Greenbaum, cello
Corey Jamason, chamber organ
June 23 Festival Finale: Handel and Purcell Odes
Henry Purcell (1659-1695): Suite from Dioclesian (instrumental selections)
Purcell: In nomine in six parts for strings, Z. 746
Purcell: Ode, Welcome to All the Pleasures (tenor soloist: Gregório Taniguchi)
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George Frideric Handel (1685-1759): Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 11
Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne
Nola Richardson, soprano
Clifton Massey, countertenor
Jesse Blumberg, baritone
