Sligo Baroque Music Festival

01/10/2009 - 04/10/2009

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The Sligo Baroque Music Festival was founded by Rod Alston and the activities of Sligo Early Music Ensemble in 1995 and was first the first Festival of Early Music in Ireland (It was then known as Sligo Early Music Festival)

The Sligo Baroque Music Festival was founded by Rod Alston and the activities of Sligo Early Music Ensemble in 1995 and was first the first Festival of Early Music in Ireland (It was then known as Sligo Early Music Festival).

Performers Include : Concerto Caledonia Walter Reiter - Violin , Irish Baroque Orchestra , Malcolm Proud - Harpsichord , Ben Bayle - Harpsichord , Laoise O Brien -recorder , Nicholas Milne - gamba , Julia Corry - Baroque flute , DIT ensemble , Sligo Baroque Orchestra .

Thursday 8.00pm Opening Concert €20 (12)

October 1st : Irish Baroque Orchestra, Gary Cooper director/soloist

BACH Sinfonia BWV42
BACH Harpsichord Concerto in D minor BWV1052
VIVALDI Concerto for 4 Vlns B min from L'estro armonico
BACH Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C Minor BWV
BACH Concerto for Hpd, 2 Recs in F (Brandenburg 4)

Friday 8.00pm The Baroque Violin Sonata €18 (12)

October 2nd : Walter Reiter violin; Benjamin Bayl harpsichord
Programme tracing the development of the Baroque violin sonata from Castello to Bach

Saturday 1.00pm DIT Early Music Ensemble €12 (8)

October 3rd The next generation of Irish Period performers…
Counter tenor, recorder, violin, and continuo
Telemann and Handel

8.00pm Flauto Dolce, Flauto Traverso €18 (12)

La Recreation
Laoise O’Brien recorder; Julia Cory baroque flute; Nick Milne viola da gamba; Malcolm Proud Harpsichord, Jean-Marie LeClair L'Aine Antoine Forqueray Francois Couperin Georg Philipp Telemann George Frideric Handel Johann Sebastian Bach

Sunday 3.00pm Baroque Youth Training Orchestra €10

October 4th directed by Walter Reiter

8.00pm Concerto Caledonia €18 (12)

David McGUINNESS - harpsichord
David GREENBERG - violin
Chris NORMAN - flutes, pipes, voice
Concerto Caledonia presents a programme around its Scottish-Canadian links and here the lines between music genres tend to get a bit blurred. Baroque and Scottish music are the main root elements. Eighteenth-century Scottish music in particular cries out for an unusually large and unconventional palette of stylistic interpretations, because its very nature defies classification as either folk or art music.

Recorder Masterclass (Laoise O’Brien): Saturday 10.00-12.30 observers welcome – no charge
Rehearsal/workshops Baroque Youth Training Orchestra: Saturday am & pm, Sunday am
Observers welcome – no charge