Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church (Lafayette, CA)
This program from the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra includes Arne's work Comus, quintessential 18th-century English music with the timeless themes of chaos and order, based on a masque by English poet John Milton; and Rameau's Pygmalion (the source of which is Ovid's Pygmalion myth), a classic French piece. Nicholas McGegan conducts the concert, featuring three guest soloists, the PBO and the Philharmonia Chorale.
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Program
Arne: Comus
Rameau: Pygmalion
There will be a pre-concert lecture at 7:15pm.
Artists
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Sophie Daneman, soprano (Céphise & Amour)
Meredith Hall, soprano (La Statue)
Colin Ainsworth, tenor (Pygmalion)
Philharmonia Chorale
Bruce Lamott, director
Recognized by The New Yorker as “an acclaimed expert in 18th-century style,” Nicholas McGegan is an international conductor. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area where he is music director of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, he is called upon by symphony orchestras across the globe to conduct not only the music of Handel, Rameau, Haydn and Mozart, but also Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn and clean-limbed 20th- and 21st-century music.
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