Seattle Baroque Orchestra – Past Concerts

A showcase of the great master’s finest works for violin and harpsichord, including the sonatas for violin and obbligato harpsichord, a partita for solo violin, and the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue.

Boccherini – La Musica Notturna delle Strade del Madrid
Biber – Nachtwaechter Serenade
Mozart – Eine kleine Nachtmusik

Telemann – Hamburg Ebb and Flow Overture
Telemann – La Bourse Overture
Handel – Water Music

Vivaldi – The Four Seasons
Vivaldi – Il Gardellino
Vivaldi – La Notte

Program includes selections from The Tempest (Matthew Locke), King Arthur and The Old Batchelor (Henry Purcell), Acis and Galatea (Handel), and works by Avison, Sammartini and others.

Seattle Baroque Orchestra is joined by Eric Milnes and Canadian soprano soloist Hélène Brunet for a holiday celebration that includes Handel’s famous Gloria, Corelli’s Christmas Concerto, Noels by Michel Corrette, Marin Marais’ Chaconne and cantatas and arias by Scarlatti, Bach, Salazar and Zipoli.

The American Dream recreates the musical life of Boston’s early days, featuring a wide variety of music that would have been played and sung in churches, theaters, private homes and the newly founded private concert halls.

G.F. Handel – Selections from Giulio Cesar
J.C. Bach – Passages from Vauxhall Songs
Carl Stamitz – Symphony in G major
James Hewitt /arr. Maute – The Battle of Trenton
J.C.F. Bach – Die Amerikanerin (“The American Girl”)

Delirio Amoroso captures the glory and verve of Handel’s youth in Rome – the compositions he might have heard and the music he came up with in response.