Guest violist and artistic director of Los Angeles BaroqueLindsey Strand-Polyak joins SD Baroque for Mozart’s first String Quintet, K. 174 in B-flat major, an important early piece that foreshadows the composer’s later masterpieces, and pre-dates them by some 15 years
SD Baroque celebrates the Christmas season with Vivaldi’s joyous Gloria RV 589 and “Winter” from the Four Seasons, with a full chamber orchestra and chorus. Featuring Isaac Allen, soloist (Hausmann Quartet, San Diego State University).
Handel’s great oratorio Messiah springs to life by way of the fruitful collaboration of Charles Jennens’ carefully conceived libretto and Handel’s supreme skill as a composer of the theatre. BCSD’s performance of Messiah, delivered by a dynamic cast in the manner of Handel’s dramatic operas, has become one of its crown jewels.
Sädesärla is a world fusion duo project presenting original compositions and arrangements of folk music from Sweden, Thailand, and beyond with Christopher Adler on khaen, the bamboo free-reed mouth organ from Laos and Northeast Thailand, and Batya MacAdam-Somer on violin, viola, and voice.