2017/18 Walt Disney Concert Hall
Baroque
The Baroque series presents the world's most celebrated early music specialists from around the world. This season includes Les Arts Florissants, Europa Galante and Les Violons du Roy performing music by Purcell, Vivaldi, and Bach, among others.
Les Arts Florissants
An incomparable ensemble performs a pair of Baroque tragedies.
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- PURCELL Dido and Aeneas
- CHARPENTIER Acteon
Artists
- Les Arts Florissants
- William Christie, conductor
Vivaldi, the Farewell Concertos
It’s Vivaldi in Vienna, as interpreted by powerhouse Italian ensemble Europa Galante.
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- Baldassare GALUPPI Overture to Adriano in Siria
- VIVALDI Sinfonia in G major for strings, RV 149, “Il Coro delle muse”
- VIVALDI Violin Concerto in A, RV 552, “con eco in lontano”
- Georg REUTTER Sinfonia in D minor
- Ignaz HOLZBAUER Flute Concerto in G
- Johann Georg Reinhardt Sonata a quattro violini e basso
- VIVALDI Violin Concerto in C, RV 186
- VIVALDI Violin Concerto in B-flat, RV 371
Artists
- Europa Galante
- Fabio Biondi, violin and conductor
Baroque Brass
LA Phil’s sensational brass players offer an invigorating evening of colorful music.
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- BYRD Earl of Oxford’s March
- BACH Double Violin Concerto
- HANDEL Selections from Water Music
- BACH Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
- VIERDANCK Capriccio a due Cornetti
- MARCELLO Sonata in A Minor, Op. 2 No. 3
- CHARPENTIER Te Deum
- BACH Two Choruses from Jesu, Meine Freunde, BWV 227
- BACH Chorale Prelude from Clavierübung, Book III, BWV 680
- Juan J. COLOMER Gabrieli según San Juan (U.S. premiere)
Artists
- Andrew Bain, conductor and horn
- Gregory Roosa, horn, Alan Scott Klee Chair
- Amy Jo Rhine, horn, Loring Charitable Trust Chair
- Brian Drake, horn
- Ethan Bearman, horn, Bud and Barbara Hellman Chair
- Thomas Hooten, trumpet and organ
- James Wilt, trumpet and flugelhorn
- Christopher Still, trumpet
- Daniel Rosenboom, trumpet and flugelhorn
- davidrejano.com, trombone
- James Miller, trombone and euphonium
- Denis Jiron, trombone
- John Lofton, bass trombone
- Norman Pearson, tuba
- Doug Tornquist, tuba
- Joseph Pereira, timpani
- Matthew Howard, percussion
Les Violons du Roy
The acclaimed Canadian orchestra brings Bach and Handel to life.
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- BACH (transc. Labadie) Three Leipzig Chorales, BWV 651, 660, 655
- HANDEL Concerto grosso in D Major, Op. 6 No. 5
- BACH (arr. Labadie) Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582
- BACH Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042
- BACH Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, BWV 1041
- BACH (completed by Bernard Labadie after Davitt Moroney) Contrapunctus XIV from The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080
- BACH Double Violin Concerto
Artists
- Les Violons du Roy
- Bernard Labadie, conductor
- Isabelle Faust, violin