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St Mary’s Church of Ireland, Ardee

The 2022 Ardee Baroque festival opens with a concert featuring Irish soprano Roisin O’Grady and Musici Ireland in a programme of glorious works for voice and strings including Handel’s Gloria – a work thought to have been written c.1707 but only discovered in 2001.

Simon Harden - Organ

Lidia Jewloszewicz Clarke and Maria Ryan - Violins

Beth McNinch - Viola

Katie Tertell - Cello

Rameau deux Tabourins [2.15’]

Carlo Farina Pavane [4’]

Giuseppe Torelli Concerto for strings Op.6 No.1 [5.30’]

I know my redeemer liveth from Messiah [5.20’]

Dido's lament from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas [7.45’]

Bach, bist du bei mir [2.40’]

Vivaldi Alla Rustica [4.30’]

Vivaldi's Nulla in mundo pax sincera  (first aria only)  [6.30’]

Antonio Vivaldi "Concerto RV 127" [5’]

Handel's cantata Gloria  [16’]