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Forthcoming highlights in 2010

The Irish Baroque Orchestra is having a counter-recessionary January. It is putting on a six-concert series at the National Gallery, where it will perform three monuments of baroque music: all six of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, the full set of concertos of Handel’s Opus 3 (another six), and all 12 concertos from Vivaldi’s Opus 8, Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Invenzione (The Contest between Harmony and Invention), the work that’s now best-known for including the four concertos usually played together as the Four Seasons. You won’t be able to hear all of The Four Seasons in a single programme at the National Gallery, but you will get them all together in a concert at the Wexford Opera House on Saturday 23rd, where the orchestra has coupled them with the fifth Brandenburg and Handel’s Concerto Grosso in D minor, Opus 3 No 5. National Gallery, Dublin, January 12, 14, 16, 19, 21 and 24 MD