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Millennium of Music
January-February 2010
Spotlight on the Netherlands
We continue our long and fruitful association with our partners at Radio Netherlands in presenting a series of concerts from the 2009 Holland Festival of Early Music at Utrecht. We will also direct listeners to their web site, which will provide more in-depth information about the music and performers we hear as well as more information about the festival (www.rnw.nl). The primary theme for 2009 was the 250th anniversary of the death of Handel.
#10-02: 01/04/10 --English Song before Handel--Soprano Carolyn Sampson and theorbo soloist Elizabeth Kenny take us from Henry Lawes to Purcell.
#10-03: 01/11/10 --La Resurrezione I--Handel's first oratorio and one of his earliest masterpieces (1708).
#10-04: 01/18/10 --La Resurrezione II--Concluding this early work performed by La Risonanza directed by Fabio Bonizzoni.
#10-05: 01/25/10 --Odes & Motets I--Henry Purcell's exquisite Ode for St. Cecilia's Day with the Innsbruck Festival Chorus directed by Timothy Brown.
#10-06: 02/01/10 --Odes & Motets II--Timothy Brown again conducts in Jeremiah Clarke's Lament on the Death of Purcell, and Handel's "Caroline" Te Deum.
#10-07: 02/08/10 --Concerti grossi--The Holland Baroque Society looks at the evolution of the sonata and concerto form c.1730-1750.
#10-08: 02/15/10 --Italian Cantatas--Mark Vitale conducts Contrasto Armonico and soprano Stefanie True in two of Handel's passionate cantatas.
#10-09: 02/22/10 --The English Fantasia before Handel--This time, we journey from Ward and Jenkins to Purcell with the superb Phantasm ensemble.
#10-10: 03/01/10 --Recorder Sonatas--Some of the most beautiful and haunting music in Handel's work is for recorder (or flute) and harpsichord--Eric Bosgraaf and Francesco Corti illustrate why.
#10-11: 03/08/10 --What We Missed--A cantata, some sonatas, and whatever else we missed on our musical celebration of Handel and his time.
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