Baroqu-en Hearts: Music for Valentine’s Day
A musical tribute to love gone right, love gone wrong, love gone mad, and love just plain gone.
From the heartwarming to the heartbreaking, enjoy music by Purcell, Handel, Strozzi, and more, performed by acclaimed soprano Danielle Reutter-Harrah, baroque violinists Tekla Cunningham and Lindsey Strand-Polyak, violist da gamba Tess Roberts, and harpsichordist Henry Lebedinsky. Complementary Valentine's Day-themed refreshments will be provided.
PROGRAM
Sonata sopra É tanto tempo hormai Salamone Rossi (ca. 1570-ca. 1630)
Felice nascità di core amante Nicolo Fontei (d. 1647)
L'Eraclito amoroso Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
La Vendetta Strozzi
Trio from La Musette Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729)
Auprès de vous je souffrois chaque jour. Françoise-Charlotte de Senneterre Ménétou (1679-1745)
Quand on aime bien tendrement Ménétou
On dit qu'Amour vient surprendre Ménétou
Rigaudons from La Musette Jacquet de la Guerre
She loves and she confesses Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Sonata in A, Op. 2 #6 John Ravenscroft (ca. 1665-1697)
Preludio - Largo
Ciaconna - Allegro
Bess of Bedlam Purcell
Trio Sonata Op. 5 No. 4 George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Chloe's Dream William Hayes (1708-1777)
Flow gently, sweet Afton Words: Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Music: Scottish traditional air, arr. Pietro Urbani (1749-1816)