BAROQUE IN BLOOM

This program explores the Baroque era’s power to ignite the senses and stir the imagination. Soprano Amanda Forsythe brings expressive nuance to Handel’s arias and Bach’s glowing “Wedding Cantata”. Director of Chamber Music Margaret Batjer leads the ensemble through Vivaldi’s shadowy La Notte and Biber’s Battalia—a theatrical experiment where clashing keys and rhythms evoke chaos and conflict. Telemann’s Don Quixote closes the concert, turning Cervantes’s wandering knight into a series of sharply drawn musical vignettes.

LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Margaret Batjer, DIRECTOR OF CHAMBER MUSIC + LEADER
Amanda Forsythe, SOPRANO

PROGRAM
Johann Sebastian Bach, Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten “Wedding Cantata,” BWV 202
Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto No. 2 in G minor, “La Notte”
Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto Grosso in G minor, No. 2, RB 578
George Frideric Handel, Selections from Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Heinrich Biber, Battalia à 10
Georg Philipp Telemann, Don Quixote