Salut! Baroque The Influencers
May 5 @ 3:00 pm
Salut! Baroque presents The Influencers, featuring bass-baritone, Andrew O’Connor who will sing arias by Bach, Vivaldi, Handel and Purcell on 3 May (Canberra) and 5 May (Sydney).
Andrew will perform with a specialist ensemble of nine instrumentalists who will also perform some instrumental works including the popular Battalia by Biber.
The performers: Andrew O’Connor (Bass-Baritone), Sally Melhuish (Recorder), Jane Downer (Baroque Oboe, Recorder), Meg Cohen (Baroque Violin), Julia Russoniello (Baroque Violin), llis, (Baroque Viola), Suzie Kim (Baroque Viola), Tim Blomfield (Baroque Cello), Simon Martyn-Ellis (Theorbo), Monika Kornel (Harpsichord).
The program: Avison – Concerto No. 5 in D minor/ Bach – Aria Ich habe genug from Cantata BWV 82/ Biber – Battalia in D major, C61/ Handel – Aria O ruddier than the cherry/ Locke – Lilk; Curtain Tune; Rustick Air; Minoit/Vivaldi – Aria Se il cor Guerriero/Buxtehude – Sonata; Vulnerasti cor meum/Rameau – Air pour les esclaves africains; Tambourins I-II; Air pour l’adoration de soleil; Air pour les Sauvages/Lambert – Ma bergère est tendre et fidèle/Telemann – Concerto in G major for Viola, TWV 51:G9/ Purcell – Aria What Power Art Thou?/Monteverdi – Damigella tutta bella