Apollo Ensemble & Siri Thornhill, soprano

Apollo Ensemble & Siri Thornhill, soprano

Trio sonatas, arias and a cantata – G.F. Handel

APOLLO ENSEMBLE 

David Rabinovich and Daphne Oltheten – violin

Jacopo Ristori – cello

Marion Boshuizen – harpsichord

Programme

* Trio Sonata in B flat, Opus 2/3

* Süsser Blumen, Ambraflocken – from neun Deutsche Arien

* Flammende Rose – from neun Deutsche Arien

* Trio Sonata in G minor, Opus 2/5

* Agrippina condotta a morire, HWV 110

Siri Thornhill regularly captivates audiences and critics alike, who praise her for her “razor-sharp coloratura” and her “beautifully balanced Mozartian artistry”.

The soprano performs in concert with renowned conductors and ensembles and appears at numerous festivals, including the Halle Handel Festival, the Bruges Festival of Early Music, the Sydney Festival, the Esterházy Haydn Festival and the Leipzig Bach Festival. She has sung Bach’s St Matthew Passion under Iván Fischer at the Konzerthaus Berlin, was engaged for Diego Fasolis’s Christmas Oratorio, and has performed concerts in the Netherlands with the Royal Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra under Gijs Leenaars.

The Apollo Ensemble consists of highly dedicated musicians who see music as a vital life force. Drawing on more than five centuries of music history, from Monteverdi to Stravinsky, we select the finest chamber music and breathe new expressive life into these works. Our repertoire is versatile and surprising, ranging from Bach to Brazilian opera. We perform in the Netherlands and abroad, organise the annual Apollo Summer Academy, and present Festival Via Musica, a chamber music festival held each August in Flevoland.