Midori Seiler & Budapest Festival Orchestra

The Budapest Festival Orchestra’s historic ensemble will take the stage to present works by six English and French composers. The “most versatile and outstanding figure of Baroque violin play”, and the musician directing the BFO’s early music concerts for years, Midori Seiler, has created a program featuring a fantasia, an aria, a suite, a concerto, a chaconne, and a cantata. The program kicks off with the violin duo by Gibbons, who broke with Renaissance tradition; following a selection of pieces from and parodies of Baroque operas and accompanying music, the program concludes with Montéclair’s secular cantata. The latter, and Purcell’s aria, will feature a solo performance by Canadian-born Stefanie True, a returning guest of the BFO. The journey back in time will be made complete by the use of authentic period instruments and costumes, as well as gestures choreographed by one of the top experts on Baroque gesture, Sigrid T’Hooft.