The autumn season of Irish early music festivals opens with the Sligo Baroque festival, coming in the last weekend of September. This long-running festival celebrates its 27th edition this year, and Vlad looks ahead to its musical offerings with a journey to the lands and themes that listeners will enjoy at Sligo’s venues during the festival. Swiss-based ensemble A Corte Musical under director Rogério Gonçalves, will be represented by recent recordings from their award-winning slate, and we’ll explore Atlantic and Mediterranean waters with their programme, Mediterranea, a musical journey along the coasts from Portugal to Italy. We may even find a few mermaids along the way. French baroque sonatas and Georg Frideric Handel are also part of the musical delights on offer in Sligo; Marja Gaynor, David Power and John Walsh will thrill us with a blend of uilleann pipes, baroque violin and flamenco guitar, and Vlad will have news about Historically Informed happenings throughout the country on this upcoming Culture Night. Dip your oars into the seas of Early Music discovery on this Sunday’s Vox Nostra.
RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 18th September, 7am-10am