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	News Items Blog 2011-2012 Chicago Season Press Kit Tour Programs Media Baroque Band with Artistic Director Garry Clarke "The performances had the style, verve, fine balances and unstuffy scholarship audiences have come to expect from Clarke and his dozen period-instrument colleagues” Chicago Classical Review "Clarke's group served the music well with lucid textures, clear articulation and taut lines.... Some conductors use fast speeds to heighten expression. Not Clarke. The sense of rightness to his generally moderate tempos came from an easy rhythmic spring that never sounded rushed. Such naturalness carried over to the score's recitatives, performed with suitably temperate feeling, and tastefully discreet vocal ornamentation." Chicago Tribune “Instrumental pieces by Henry Purcell, William Lawes, Matthew Locke and other British Baroque luminaries proved to be delightful discoveries, thanks to the acoustical and physical proximity of the players, not to mention their crisp, spirited playing....Director Garry Clarke also is British, and a fine violinist at that." Chicago Tribune “Until gondolas cruise down the Chicago River, Baroque Band is the closest thing the city has to Vivaldi’s Venice.” Chicago Classical Music “Baroque Band’s is the most successful in capturing the spirit of this unusual and innovative music [Battalia]…. An excellent, urgently recommended debut disc.” Fanfare Magazine “Baroque Band isn’t marketed as a cloistered guild of stuffy academics. Thursday’s program of music culled from the court of Charles II around the 1660’s was dubbed “Charlie’s Angels” (a subset of the season’s theme, “Angels and Demons”), and the stellar quality of the music and its presentation made one envy the cultivated monarch, if not the lowbrow 70’s TV recluse”. Chicago Classical Review “The city’s lively early music scene gets a lot livelier with the 2007 debut of this stylish group of period instrument players.” Chicago Tribune “By any standard this is an excellent performance for a period-instrument group.... A fine disc.” Classics Today About Artistic Director Garry Clarke: “a riveting, cut-to-the-bone performance, every note crackling with purpose and electricity” Washington Post “a young dynamo" Chicago Tribune Press Kit Flyer Critical Acclaim Tour Programs Educational Programs Artist website Media Biber: Mensa Sonora balleto Biber: Mensa Sonora aria Biber: Mensa Sonora ciacona Weekly listening page String Concerto in F Vivaldi String Concerto return to Baroque Band home page return to top			Baroque Band Biber: Mensa Sonora balleto Chicago Classical Review, October 2011 (PDF) with soprano Emma Kirkby Chicago Tribune, June 2011 (PDF) "The performances had the style, verve, fine balances and unstuffy scholarship audiences have come to expect from Clarke and his dozen period-instrument colleagues” Chicago Classical Review "Some conductors use fast speeds to heighten expression. Not Clarke. The sense of rightness to his generally moderate tempos came from an easy rhythmic spring that never sounded rushed. Such naturalness carried over to the score's recitatives, performed with suitably temperate feeling, and tastefully discreet vocal ornamentation." Chicago Tribune “Instrumental pieces by Henry Purcell, William Lawes, Matthew Locke and other British Baroque luminaries proved to be delightful discoveries, thanks to the acoustical and physical proximity of the players, not to mention their crisp, spirited playing....Director Garry Clarke also is British, and a fine violinist at that." Chicago Tribune "Chicago's period ensemble Baroque Band played with great sensitivity..." [Médée with Christian Curnyn] Opera News “Until gondolas cruise down the Chicago River, Baroque Band is the closest thing the city has to Vivaldi’s Venice.” Chicago Classical Music “Baroque Band’s is the most successful in capturing the spirit of this unusual and innovative music [Battalia]…. An excellent, urgently recommended debut disc.” Fanfare Magazine “Baroque Band isn’t marketed as a cloistered guild of stuffy academics. Thursday’s program of music culled from the court of Charles II around the 1660’s was dubbed “Charlie’s Angels” (a subset of the season’s theme, “Angels and Demons”), and the stellar quality of the music and its presentation made one envy the cultivated monarch, if not the lowbrow 70’s TV recluse”. Chicago Classical Review “The city’s lively early music scene gets a lot livelier with the 2007 debut of this stylish group of period instrument players.” Chicago Tribune “By any standard this is an excellent performance for a period-instrument group.... A fine disc.” Classics Today "The sensitive, responsive accompaniment of Clarke and his colleagues was on the same first-class level as their soloist." Chicago Classical Review [with Emma Kirkby, soprano] About Artistic Director Garry Clarke: “a riveting, cut-to-the-bone performance, every note crackling with purpose and electricity” Washington Post “a young dynamo" Chicago Tribune