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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
Biber:
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 has gotten the attention of the busy Chicago music scene with its
sold-out performances at Symphony Center (home of the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra), and at its back-to-back engagements at the Ravinia Festival. As
ensemble in residence at both the Music Institute of Chicago and at WFMT Radio,
Baroque Band is reaching new audiences with innovative programming and
educational outreach both live and online.
This exciting young ensemble has given acclaimed performances for festivals and
concert series including the Madison Early Music Festival, Grinnell College,
Purdue University, the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series, the American Bach Society
Conference and the International Viola d’amore Conference. The core ensemble of
15 instrumentalists is in active collaboration with Chicago Opera Theater and
will give a premiere west coast tour during the 2011-2012 season featuring
performances in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Palo Alto.
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).
Lead by Artistic Director Garry Clarke, the leading violinist and conductor,
Baroque Band has created a series of artfully conceived programs for its home
and touring performances. Under the title "Angels & Demons" Baroque Band's
2010-2011 subscription season featured works of Corelli, (in a "Hell's Angels"
program); works Charles II brought back to England following his exile in France
(for the “Charlie’s Angels” program); a
collection of delicious baroque opera arias
titled "Heavenly Angel" with soprano Lucy Crowe; and Handel's "La Resurrezione"
which details the events between – and during – Good Friday and Easter Sunday
beginning with an Angel arriving at the gates of hell to confront the ranting
Lucifer.
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
“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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