Fabulous Fringe: Nari Baroque Ensemble

Fabulous Fringe: Nari Baroque Ensemble

This concert is part of the free fringe programme of the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht 2025.

Nari Baroque Ensemble is a baroque ensemble specializing in historically informed performance on period instruments. Since 2019, they have created innovative concerts blending vocal and instrumental music with spoken word and theatrical elements. Their emotionally charged performances focus on storytelling and drama, deeply engaging the audience. Winners of the Göttingen Händel Competition 2024, they regularly tour Europe presenting fresh, contemporary interpretations.

Programme

• George Frideric Handel

  Meine Seele hört im Sehen, HWV 207

  1685-1759
• Dina Smorgonskaya

  You are a Fawn

  1947
• George Frideric Handel

  Hush ye pretty warbling quire (from: Acis and Galatea, HWV 49)

• Sonata for Recorder in F major, HWV 369
  Allegro

• Georg Philipp Telemann

  Du bist ein tolles Ungeheuer (from: Die Liebe TWV 20:32)

  1681-1767
• George Frideric Handel

  Endless pleasure (from: Semele, HWV 58)
  Ha l’inganno il suo diletto (from: Pensieri notturni di filli, HWV 134)

• Sonata for Recorder in A minor, HWV 362
  Adagio
  Allegro

• William Boyce

  The Distracted Lover

  1711-1779
• George Frideric Handel

  Sonata for Recorder in B-flat major, HWV 377
  Adagio

• John Christopher Pepusch

  Why shou’d I Love (from: When Loves soft passion)

  1667-1752
• Agostino Steffani

  Fortuna Crudele (from: Spezza, Amor)
  
  Programme subject to change

  1654-1728

Musicians

• Liron Givoni soprano
• Naomi Hassoun recorder
• Yotam Haran cello
• Guy Pardo harpsichord