Christmas Festival. Sonore Antiqua and Gunta Gelgote

Artists:

Gunta Gelgote, soprano

Early music ensemble “Sonore Antiqua”:

Līga Baltābola (violin),

Jānis Baltābols (violin),

Baiba Lasmane (violin),

Zane Baltābola (violin),

Annija Elizabete Meija (viola),

Dina Puķīte (cello),

Gertruda Jerjomenko (harpsichord)

Description:

The Baroque music concert program will feature works by Arcangelo Corelli, Antonio Vivaldi, Georg Philipp Telemann, George Frideric Handel, and Johann Sebastian Bach. The program includes Corelli’s Concerto grosso, Bach’s Fifth Brandenburg Concerto, Telemann’s concerto for two violins, as well as vocal works by Vivaldi and Handel.

Soprano Gunta Gelgote regularly appears at the Latvian National Opera and Ballet, the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, and the Vilnius City Opera, collaborating with conductor Gintaras Rinkevičius. She has performed with leading Baltic orchestras, including the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra and the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica, and Sinfonietta Rīga, and she also actively takes part in contemporary music projects. For her performance, she received the Latvian Grand Music Award for Debut of the Year (2009) and the Lithuanian Golden Cross of the Stage as Soloist of the Year (2022).

Sonore Antiqua is an ensemble of professional musicians dedicated to the interpretation of early music, with special attention to Renaissance and Baroque repertoire. The group bases its work on the principles of historically informed performance, creating a stylistically nuanced and period-appropriate sound. The ensemble includes both better-known and rarely performed works in its concert programs and takes part in various musical projects.

Program:

• •Arcangelo Corelli, Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 4;
• •Antonio Vivaldi, “Salve Regina”;
• •Georg Philipp Telemann, Concerto for Two Violins;
• •George Frideric Handel, “Believe My Suffering” from the opera “Alcina”;
• •Johann Sebastian Bach, Fifth Brandenburg Concerto;
• •George Frideric Handel, “Return to Longing” from the opera “Alcina”;
• •Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto for 2 Violins;
• •George Frideric Handel, “Guardian Angels, Oh, Protect Me” from the oratorio “The Triumph of Time and Truth”;
• •Johann Sebastian Bach, Chorale “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”.

Concert duration: to be announced