CELEBRATE!
Handel, Haydn, Purcell and Mendelssohn
Sunday, March 29, 7:30 PM
First United Methodist Church, Evanston
Tickets: $60, $45, $38
A free pre-concert lecture presented by Dan Maki begins at 6:30 PM in the church chapel.
Monday, March 30, 7:30 PM
Harris Theater, Chicago
(Millennium Park)
Ticket Prices: $75, $60, $45, $38, $30
A free pre-concert lecture presented by Dan Maki begins at 6 PM in the Chicago Cultural Center (Randolph Café–north entrance).
PROGRAM
Henry Purcell
King Oberon's birthday sequence from The Fairy Queen, Act IV
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Chorus: "Now the night is chased away" |
Mass No. 9 in B-flat Major (Heligmesse)
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Kyrie |
George Frideric Handel
Coronation Anthem No. 1, "Zadok the Priest"
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"Zadok the Priest" |
Symphony No. 4 in A Major (Italian)
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Fourth movement—Allegro vivace |
Music of the Baroque
Chorus and Orchestra
Four great composers mark major anniversaries in 2009, and this wonderfully varied program shows exactly why their music delights and moves us to this day. Celebrate brilliant choral writing, symphonic genius, and dramatic flair in a grand tribute to Handel, Haydn, Purcell and Mendelssohn.
RECOMMENDED RECORDINGS
Purcell, The Fairy Queen
John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists (Archiv)
Haydn, Heligmesse
Richard Hickox and Collegium Music 90 (Chandos)
[MP3 download] John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists (Philips)