PROGRAMME
G. F. Händel: from RINALDO, HW 7, Oberture “Scherzano sul tuo volto”, duo
G. F. Handel: "Sweet Bird“ from “L'allegro, il penseroso“ for soprano                       
G. F. Telemann: Concerto in E minor for oboe and orchestra                                     
C. W. Gluck: Duo “Vieni, appaga il tuo consorte!“ and Aria „Che farò senza Euridice“
W. A. Mozart: Aria “Nehmt meinen Dank“ for soprano and orchestra K. 383;
W. A. Mozart: Aria from Pamina “Ach ich fuhl‘s“,  for soprano and orchestra -  “The Magic Flute”
A. Vivaldi: Concerto “La Notte“ for flute and orchestra
G. F. Händel: Prelude and Aria „Cara sposa“
G. F. Händel: “The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba“ from “Solomon“, HW 37
G. F. Händel: “Caro, Bella“, duo from "Giulio Cesare"G. F. Händel: „I'o t'abbraccio“ duo from "Rodelinda"

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EXCELLENT INTERPRETERS OF ANCIENT MUSIC, MUSICA ANGELICA ARRIVE ACCOMPANIED BY TWO SPECIALISTS

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“By far the best English soprano, a specialist in ancient music”. (Grammophon).
The English soprano, Carolyn Sampson, read music at the University of Birmingham where she won the Arnold Goldsborough Prize for Baroque performance. She made her opera debut with English National Opera in Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea and returned to sing Tanterabogus in The Fairy Queen with the company in London and Barcelona and recently sang Euridice and La Musica in L'Orfeo with Le Concert d'Astrée at The Barbican. Her repertoire includes Salome in Stradella’s San Giovanni Battista and Euridyce in Gluck’s Orphé et Euridyce, Belinda Dido and Aeneas, Susanna Le Nozze Di Figaro and Adina L’Elisir d’Amore. Carolyn Sampson's concert engagements have included Messiah with The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment a USA tour with The King's Consort as featured soloist, J.S. Bach's St Matthew Passion (BWV 244) with The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Philippe Herreweghe, St John Passion (BWV 245) with The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/Gustav Leonhardt, Monteverdi Vespers with The Washington Bach Consort/Harry Christophers, St Matthew Passion (BWV 244) at the BBC Proms with The English Concert / Trevor Pinnock, Esther in New York with The Gabrieli Consort / Paul McCreesh, Les Illuminations with the Manchester Camerata/Nicholas Kraemer, Igor Stravinsky and J.S. Bach with La Chapelle Royale, and Felix Mendelssohn and Schubert with Orchestre des Champs Elysées / Philippe Herreweghe. She has also performed with Chorwerkruhr/ Frieder Bernius, Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Stephen Layton, Ensemble Baroque de Limoges / Christophe Coin, RIAS Kammerchor, Israel Chamber Orchestra, the City of London Sinfonia and Sonnerie. She recently joined Robin Blaze for a joint recital at the Wigmore Hall and has appeared in The Proms Chamber Music Series and given recitals for BBC Radio 3, BBC Scotland and The Hampstead and Highgate Festival. She has recorded Johann Kuhnau, Sebastian Knüpfer, Antonio Vivaldi, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Monteverdi and Lalande for Hyperion, Bach for Harmonia Mundi, Orfeo for Virgin Classics and Buxtehude for Linn Records.

“Daniel Taylor sings wonderfully… he is half angel, half man…” (The Guardian).
The Canadian counter-tenor, Daniel Taylor, completed his undergraduate studies in English, philosophy and music at McGill University (Montreal) and his graduate work in religion and music at the University of Montreal, furthering his studies with the leaders of Britain's Baroque specialist groups. He continues now with Jan Simons and Michael Chance. Daniel Taylor's Glyndebourne debut in the 1997 Peter Sellar's production of Georg Frideric Handel's Theodora was greeted with critical praise and followed on an equally successful operatic debut in the Jonathan Miller production of G.F. Handel's Rodelinda (recorded for EMI). His other operatic roles have included Nerone in Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Eustazio and Gottfredo in G.F. Handel's Rinaldo, Athamas in G.F. Handel’s Semele, and Tolomeo in G.F. Handel's Giulio Cesare. In addition to opera, Taylor's repertory includes a wide range of sacred works, lute songs, and contemporary works such as Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and Sakamoto's Life. He has performed with many leading orchestras and ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, Les Violons du Roy, Les Voix Humaines, the American Bach Soloists, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Collegium Vocale de Ghent, the Academy of Ancient Music, the English Baroque Soloists and others. Daniel Taylor has made a good number of recordings including several solo recordings of songs by Dowland, Byrd and Purcell and a recording of Bach arias. He has also recorded soundtracks for La Corriveau, the Orphans of Duplessis and Cyrano de Bergerac.

Musica Angelica is led by Music Director Martin Haselböck, the internationally renowned organist, conductor, and composer. Regarded as Southern California's premier Baroque ensemble, Musica Angelica presents wide-ranging programs encompassing music from the early Baroque through the early Classical era.

Since its inception in 1993, Musica Angelica has produced an annual subscription season of orchestral and chamber concerts in venues throughout Los Angeles County, programming a mixture of known masterworks along with rarely heard gems, and featuring many of the best Baroque musicians from across the country and Europe. Guest conductors have included Rinaldo Alessandrini, Giovanni Antonini, Harry Bicket, Paul Goodwin, and Jory Vinikour, among others. Musica Angelica's first international tour took place in March 2007 in a joint venture with Haselböck's acclaimed European orchestra, the Wiener Akademie of Vienna. The ensemble presented 13 performances of Bach's St. Matthew Passion in Los Angeles, New York, Savannah (Savannah Music Festival), Mexico, Hungary, Austria, Spain, Italy and Germany. Musica Angelica, based in Santa Monica, California, collaborates with leading performing arts institutions in Southern California including Los Angeles Opera, Long Beach Opera, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Norton Simon Museum, and the Los Angeles Master Chorale.

Martin Haselböck, distinguished conductor and composer, creator of the Wiener Akademie -ensemble dedicated to Baroque and early Classical music- winner of numerous competitions, the Deutsches Schallplattenpreis and the Hungarian Liszt prize, who has edited more that fifty records as soloist and sixty as conductor, has been conducting Musica Angelica since 2005. Besides an intense activity in Europe, United States, Canada, Hungary, Tchech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia as conductor, his main interest is to brouse among ancient forgotten works in Kiev and Vienna, searching for unedited jewels by Biber, Pórpora, Fux, Muffat and the Bach family which he transcribes and reedits in the original version with his orchestra in festivals all over the World.