Sligo Baroque Festival
Programme at a glance…

Thursday 1st October
8pm, Opening Concert €20 (12)
Methodist Church, Wine Street, Sligo
Irish Baroque Orchestra, Gary Cooper director/soloist

Bach Sinfonia BWV42
Bach Harpsichord Concerto in D minor BWV1052
Vivaldi Concerto for 4 Vlns B min from L'estro armonico
Bach Concerto for Oboe & Violin in C Minor BWV
Bach Concerto for Hpd, 2 Recs in F (Brandenburg 4)

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Friday 2nd October
8pm The Baroque Violin Sonata €18 (12)
Methodist Church, Wine Street, Sligo
Walter Reiter, violin; Benjamin Bayl, harpsichord
Programme tracing the development of the Baroque violin sonata from Castello to Bach

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Saturday 3rd October
1pm The next generation of Irish Period performers…€12 (8)
Methodist Church, Wine Street, Sligo

DIT Early Music Ensemble €12 (8)
Counter tenor, recorder, violin, and continuo
Telemann and Handel

8pm Flauto Dolce, Flauto Traverso €18 (12)
Methodist Church, Wine Street, Sligo
La Recreation (Laoise O’Brien recorder; Julia Cory baroque flute; Nick Milne viola da gamba; Malcolm Proud Harpsichord)

Jean-Marie LeClair L'Aine, Antoine Forqueray Francois Couperin, Georg Philipp Telemann, George Frideric Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach

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Sunday 4th October
3pm Baroque Youth Training Orchestra €10
directed by Walter Reiter
Tobergal Lane Cafe , Upstairs

8pm Concerto Caledonia €18 (12)
Tobergal Lane Cafe , Upstairs
David McGuinness - harpsichord
David Greenberg - violin
Chris Norman - flutes, pipes, voice
Concerto Caledonia presents a programme around its Scottish-Canadian links and here the lines between music genres tend to get a bit blurred. Baroque and Scottish music are the main root elements. Eighteenth-century Scottish music in particular cries out for an unusually large and unconventional palette of stylistic interpretations, because its very nature defies classification as either folk or art music.

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Recorder Masterclass (Laoise O’Brien): Sat 10.00-12.30 observers welcome – no charge
Rehearsal/workshops Baroque Youth Training Orchestra: Sat am & pm, Sun am
Observers welcome – no charge