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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
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Baroque Band
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Mensa Sonora balleto
Baroque Band, the superb period instrument
orchestra, creates exciting performances that emerge from the best of baroque
scholarship while leaving stuffy attitudes behind. Just celebrating its fifth
anniversary, the group has won high praise from audiences and the major press
for performances at home, on tour and on disc that take a fresh look at the
baroque era.
Baroque Band's 2011-2012 home season in Chicago is titled: Adventures Through
the Looking Glass and features these programs: The Queen of Hearts (October
2011); Tweedledum & Tweedledee (January 2012); The White Rabbit (March 2012);
The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party (June 2012). Details:
Queen of Hearts with Emma Kirkby
More at:
www.baroqueband.org
Oct 12, 2011
Oct 14, 2011
Oct 15, 2011
Pergolesi – Salve Regina
Buxtehude – Dixit Dominus
Smith – Excerpts from Paradise Lost (John Christopher Smith)
Vivaldi – In furore justissimae irae
San Francisco Early Music Festival
Nov 4, 2011
Nov 5, 2011
Nov 6, 2011
In 1660, Charles II returned from exile in France as Monarch of England. While
in France he became a great admirer of Louis XIV’s band, Les Vingt-quatre
Violins du Roi. Back in England, it wasn’t long before Charlie had his own band
of angels, with the same name! Chicago’s dynamic, young Baroque Band will
recreate the era of Charles II with grand celebratory music by Purcell, Grabu,
Blow, and Croft.
Handel's Messiah
Dec 1, 2011
Dec 3, 2011
Chicago
Tweedledum & Tweedledee
Jennifer Morsches, Cello
Craig Trompeter, Cello
Jan 6, 2011
Jan 7, 2011
Jan 11, 2011
Beguiling cellists Jennifer Morsches and Craig Trompeter form a dynamic duo in
this program of concertos for two instruments with music by Vivaldi and Porpora.
Baroque Band principal cellist Craig Trompeter is joined by guest performer,
London-based American musician Jennifer Morsches. Morsches is the principal
cellist of Florilegium and performs, records and tours with the Orchestre des
Champs-Élysées, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Academy of
Ancient Music, among others.
SuperBowl Baroque Sunday
Feb 5, 2012 at 3PM
Another touchdown at the Chicago Cultural Center. You won’t want to miss this
pre-game show featuring music from your favorite Baroque composers, including
Handel, Pachebel, and Vivaldi.
The White Rabbit
March 9, 2012
Harry Bicket, Guest Director
Iestyn Davies, Counter-tenor
“Davies’s celebrated timbre – translucent, warm, pure…” BBC Music Magazine
Following a glowing reception for his concerts with Baroque Band in 2011, guest
director Harry Bicket returns, accompanied by counter-tenor Iestyn Davies, who
will be performing in Rinaldo at Lyric Opera.
Praised as having “one of the most glorious counter-tenor voices in the world
today” by the Independent and called “superb” by the New York Times, Iestyn
Davies is a rising star on the international music scene. Director Harry Bicket
is world-renowned as an opera and concert conductor of distinction. He is the
Artistic Director of The English Concert and an accomplished harpsichordist.
Teseo
April 21, 2012
April 27, 2012
April 29, 2012
May 2, 2012
Premiered at the Queen’s Theatre in London, this was the 28-year-old Handel at
his most enthralling. There are no tenor or bass voices, and all roles (both
male and female) are sung by sopranos, mezzo-sopranos or counter-tenors. Teseo
has been staged only once in the U.S. during the Boston Early Music Festival in
1985.
THE DRAMA:We find the wicked Medea tormented by jealousy, and resorting to her
infamous magic spells to attempt the ultimate vengeance while riding a chariot
drawn by dragons. Come see Handel’s storytelling at its most dramatic.
The Mad Hatter's Tea Party
June 1, 2012
June 2, 2012
June 6, 2012
“I hazarded to make heard first all sound together” Jean-Féry Rebel
Baroque Band’s season closes with one of the most strikingly original works of
the Baroque repertoire, Rebel’s bold final work, the ballet Les Elemens.
Complementing Rebel’s chaotic opening, the program also includes Handel’s grand
Concerto Grosso Op 3 No 2 and Telemann’s Ouverture des nations anciens et
modernes.Tour bookings for the 2012-2013 season are now available.
www.baroqueband.org
"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
“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
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