Ardee Baroque 2009
The Irish Baroque Orchestra returns to its winter home in Ardee once again.
Ardee Baroque is a small jewel of a festival which takes place each year in November. While it may be cold and snowing outside, the evocative churches and castles of mid-Louth provide a warm and atmospheric backdrop to a series of concerts and recitals by world-class musicians, from Ireland and abroad. Anchored by the Irish Baroque Orchestra, directed by Monica Huggett, Ardee Baroque combines performances of music from the 17th and 18th centuries with education work, children’s concerts and activities, and lectures, all leavened by a welcoming and informal atmosphere, in the traditional villages of Ardee and Collon. Ardee Baroque is supported by Louth County Council, the Arts Council and Fáilte Ireland.
Friday 13th November 2009, St Mary's Church, Ardee, 8pm
Programme 1: MUSIC FIT FOR A KING
Monica Huggett, Director, Malcolm Proud, Solo Organ
PROGRAMME
Georg Frideric Handel (1685-1759) Saul Overture HWV 13
John Stanley (1712-1786), Concerto for Organ, strings & Continuo in C Minor Op 10 no. 4 (1742)
Georg Muffat (1653-1704), Armonico Tributo no II in G minor (1682)
Michel Richard Delalande (1657-1726), La Grand Piéce Royale
Jean Phillipe Rameau (1683-1764), Suite from Platée (1745)
Sunday 15th November 2009, St Mary's Church, Ardee, 7pm
Programme II ANNIVERSARIES
Monica Huggett, Director, Sadhbh Dennedy, Soprano
PROGRAMME
Henry Purcell (1659-1695) Fairy Queen Suite z.629 (1692)
Georg Frideric Handel (1685-1759)> V'adoro pupille from Giulio Cesare in Egitto HWV 17 (1724)
Concerto Grosso Op 6 no 5 in D major HW 323
Che tirannia d'amor from Alessandro HWV 21 (1721)
La mia costanza from Ezio HVW 29 (1732)
