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Seattle Baroque Orchestra, from Bach Concertos to Purcell Hornpipes
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Seattle Baroque Orchestra, from Bach Concertos to Purcell Hornpipes

While these two concertos are familiar to many, the incidental music Purcell wrote for plays is mostly less so. The group of airs and dances for The Gordian Knot Unty’d are delightful, particularly towards the end, when the audience heard a familiar tune, “Rockabye, baby,” in increasingly sophisticated and developed guise. Continue reading Seattle Baroque Orchestra, from Bach Concertos to Purcell Hornpipes

A Disappointing <em>Dido</em> from Early Music Guild & Theatre of Early Music
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A Disappointing Dido from Early Music Guild & Theatre of Early Music

From the start, this program did not live up to the hype. Perhaps TEM was having an off night, but several choices in the program seemed to be less felicitous than they might have been.

The four Handel arias, all gorgeous individually, came across as tame; at least one livelier piece would have brightened this section. “Total Eclipse” from Samson, sung by tenor Benjamin Butterfield, was an odd choice to begin with. Continue reading A Disappointing Dido from Early Music Guild & Theatre of Early Music