"If Love's a Sweet Passion" Victoria Baroque Players with Nancy Argenta, soprano Vocal and Instrumental music from the height of the English Baroque.
Boyce: Sinfonia No.1 in B flat Major
Handel: Cantata Crudel Tiranno
Croft: Overture to Laurus Cruenta
Lampe: Aria "Pretty Warblers"
Handel: Concerto in D major
Purcell: Fantasy upon a Ground in D major
Tickets at the door, and from Ivy's Bookshop, Munro's Books, and Long & McQuade (Victoria) more info: www.victoria-baroque.com, 250 652 0116
=0D=0A=About Nancy Argenta:
=0D=0A=With a repertoire spanning three centuries, Nancy Argenta has been hailed not only as the supreme Handel soprano of our age but also for her performances of works by such diverse composers as Mahler, Mozart, Schubert and Schoenberg. Conductors with whom she has collaborated include Ozawa, Gardiner, Davis, Blomstedt, Pinnock, Hogwood and Norrington. She has sung with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Boston Symphony, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and the Toronto, Montreal, and Sydney Symphony Orchestras.
=0D=0A=About Victoria Baroque Players:
=0D=0A=The Victoria Baroque Players has presented concerts to the Victoria audiences now for a half a decade, bringing a uniquely passionate, energetic, and joyous approach to music of the Baroque and Classical periods through historically informed performance on period instruments. The core members of the Victoria Baroque Players are its Artistic Director and flutist, Soile Stratkauskas, violinists Christi Meyers and Paul Luchkow, violist Mieka Michaux, cellist Martin Bonham, bassoonist Katrina Russell, and harpsichordist Michael Jarvis.
=0D=0A=In addition to their own series, Victoria Baroque Players has been invited as guest artists to perform at the Early Music Vancouver, Early Music Society of the Islands, Artspring, and Cowichan Symphonic Society series, amongst others.
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