SLIGO BAROQUE ORCHESTRA Click HERE for tickets

            Music of the female imagination from 17th and 18th century Italy:

Orla Shannon, Soprano

Sligo Baroque Orchestra

Rod Alston, Director and Harpsichord

Marianna Martines:  Overture from Isacco                                                         

1744 – 1812                  Allegro Maestoso

Francesca Caccini        O che nuovo stupor mirate intorno                                   

1587 – 1640             

Antonia Bembo:        aria from L'Ercole Amante: Act 1 scene 3 E vuol dunque ciprigna                         

1640 – 1720    

 Isabella Leonarda:    sonata terza from 12 sonatas op 16                                       

1620 – 1704   

Maria Teresa Agnesi:     aria Alla priginone antica: no 12   from 12 arias for s, strings and bc

1720 – 1795                                

Anna Bon:                       Divertimento for two traversi  in d  op 3 no  3 

1739 – 1768                

Barbara Strozzi:               che si puo fare     op 8                                                          

1613 – 1677                             

Maddalena Laura Sirmen:   Violin concerto in C  najor op 3 no 6                                 

1745 – 1818                              Allegro; Andante; Rondo [Allegro]