Thu 1/31 – Sun 2/3
18th century baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi’s name exudes the same upbeat éclat as his music, much of which has an extroverted rather than an intimate vibe. But it’s the latter side the Apollo’s Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, will be exploring when it presents “The Intimate Vivaldi,” with performances Thu 1/31 through Sun 2/3, at three venues at Fairlawn Church in Akron, St. Paul’s in Cleveland Heights, and Rocky River.
The centerpiece of the program is a pair of Vivaldi lute concertos, featuring internationally noted lutenist Ronn McFarlane, performing with the Apollo’s Fire Chamber Orchestra. One of Apollo’s Fire’s specialties is putting an era, a style or a composer into context. So the program will also include Apollo’s Fire violinists Olivier Brault and Johanna Novum on the lute-variant instrument theorbo, playing music by Italian baroque composers Dario Castello and Biagio Marini, who worked a century before Vivaldi.
http://www.apollosfire.org/concerts/intimate-vivaldi.html