Handel/Overture from Music for the Royal Fireworks
“Verdi prati” from Alcina
Vivaldi/Concerto in E major, Op. 8, No. 1, Spring (from The Four Seasons)
Bach/“Schafe können sicher weiden” from BWV 208
Handel/“La Paix” from Music for the Royal Fireworks
“The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” from Solomon, HWV 67
“Da tempeste il legno infranto” from Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17
Strozzi/Che si può fare?, Op. 8
Lully/“Marche pour la cérémonie des Turcs” from Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Purcell/“If Love’s a Sweet Passion” from The Fairy Queen
Rameau/“Les sauvages” from Les Indes galantes
J.S. Bach/Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048
Handel/“Let the Bright Seraphim” from Samson, HWV 57
Pachelbel/Canon in D major
Handel/“La Réjouissance” from Music for the Royal Firework
For this performance, her second engagement of the season, artist in residence Julia Bullock is joined by the famed period-instrument ensemble the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. The collective brings a fresh approach and a spirit of inquisitiveness to Baroque music performance—and is known for making historic instruments sing in the repertoire originally composed for them. The program highlights Bullock’s soprano in arias from operas by Handel, Lully, Rameau, and Purcell in Italian, French, and English, as well as instrumental showpieces by Vivaldi, Bach, Pachelbel, and Handel.