This program features works that range from 1629 to 1747, and will spotlight each performer in their distinctive role. Guest mezzo-soprano, Julie Miller, joins us in ferocious, passionate, and intimate arias by Handel and Rameau that speak of love lost and won. Sonata X, by early Italian composer Dario Castello, engages 2 violins and bassoon in dramatic, fiery dialog, supported by a continuo team of theorbo and guitar. Tomaso Albinoni's Sonata à cinque, composed in a later Italian style, is full of rich string writing and melodic charm. Artistic Director Lorna Peters will perform Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Forqueray's La Rameau for solo harpsichord, followed by Rameau's return tribute, La Forqueray, for strings, flute and bassoon. And since no Sinfonia Spirituosa concert is complete without French opera-ballet music, our program will conclude with exotic and colorful instrumental pieces from Rameau's Les Indes Galantes.

Program:

• Tomaso Albinoni: Sonata à cinque, Op. 2, No. 3


• Dario Castello: Sonata X, Book II


• Georg Frideric Handel: Trio Sonata in G minor, Op. 2, No. 2, HWV 387


• Georg Frideric Handel: "Scherza Infida" from Ariodante;  Julie Miller, mezzo-soprano


• Antoine Forqueray: "La Rameau" from Suite No. 5 in C Minor


• Jean-Philippe Rameau: "La Forqueray" from Piéces de Clavecin en Concert V


• Georg Frideric Handel: Trio Sonata in G minor, Op. 2, No. 2, HWV 387


• Georg Frideric Handel: "Un pensiero nemico di pace" from Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno; Julie Miller, mezzo-soprano


• Jean-Philippe Rameau: Suite from Les Indes Galantes
• Air Polonaise
• Air pour Zéphire
• Tambourins I & II
• Tendre Amour;  Julie Miller, mezzo-soprano