Salut! Baroque’s Baroque Spirit
April 13 @ 3:00 pm
Salut! Baroque are delighted to present the second concert in their 30th anniversary year, Baroque Spirit.
Reflecting the variety and diversity in styles across regions and time periods, Baroque Spirit highlights composers’ thirst and curiosity in exploring new styles. Apart from one piece, the music on this program was composed within a 150-year period but is all remarkably different in character. This multicultural mix contrasts the familiarity of a Bach Chorale Prelude with Scottish, English and Irish folk melodies, Moldavian dances written in a Turkish idiom, and Spanish guitar music that hints at West-African influences.
Linking the past with the present, the concert begins with the Allegretto from Palladio (1995) written by Sir Karl Jenkins in the year Salut! Baroque began! Baroque Spirit explores the common ground between all these different styles and presents them in a way that both informs and entertains.
Concerts in Sydney and Canberra: Canberra: Friday 11 April 2025, 7.30pm, Wesley Church, Canberra
Sydney: Sunday 13 April 2025, 3.00pm, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Performers: Sally Melhuish and Alana Blackburn, Recorders; John Ma and Julia Russoniello, Baroque Violin; Brad Tham, Baroque Viola; Tim Blomfield, Bass Violin, Violoncello Piccolo; Jude Hill, Baroque Double Bass; George Wills, Baroque Guitar; Jack Peggie, Percussion; Monika Kornel, Harpsichord
The program: Jenkins Allegretto from Palladio (1995)/ Erlebach Ouverture-Suite No.6 in G minor (1693)/ de Murcia Folias Gallegas/ Rameau Ouverture from opera Zoroastre (1749)/ Gow Lament (1805)/ O’Carolan James Betagh, Jig to James Betagh/ Playford Wallom Green from The English Dancing Master (1651)/ Telemann Ouverture-Suite in B-flat major TWV 55:B8/ Cantemir Moldavian Dances (1700)/ Orme Sonata in F major from 8 Sonates à trois Parties (1700)/Anonymous Hungaricus 58 (1730)/ de Murcia Cumbées/ Pla Sonata in D minor/ Bach Chorale Prelude Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639 (c1708)/ Bach Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043 (1731) (arr. Teddy Bor)