Salut! Baroque Celebrates
February 2, 2025 @ 3:00 pm
Salut! Baroque presents Music to Celebrate, a feast of glorious music launching its 30th anniversary celebratory year, with compositions spanning 400 years. There will be concerts in Sydney and in Canberra.
Creativity bloomed in the baroque period as concerts moved away from the confines of the church and royal courts into the public realm, with different styles becoming the “pop music” of the day. Music became more accessible through printing, creating an independent market for enterprising composers, performers, publishers and promoters alike. Salut! Baroque’s program will include some of The Four Seasons by Giovanni Guido, written around eight years before Vivaldi’s more famous composition, and Jan Rokyta’s enchanting Balkanology, written 300 years later and inspired by traditional Romanian and Turkish music with its complex rhythms and harmonies.
Read our review of Salut! Baroque’s 2024 concert The Genius.
Canberra: Friday 31 January 2025, 7.30pm, Wesley Church, 20 National Circuit, Forrest, Canberra Bookings
Sydney: Sunday 2 February 2025, 3.00pm, Music Workshop, Sydney Conservatorium of Music Bookings