2023 PROGRAMME
11 January 2023 | 7:30pm
Valletta Baroque Ensemble and Kor Malta.
Venue: St John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta
The Dettingen Te Deum and other Handelian hits
12 January 2023 | 12:00pm
Winds of the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra
Venue: Archaeology Museum, Valletta
Goldberg Variations
12 January 2023 | 7:30pm
Alia Mens dir. Olivier Spilmont
Venue: Parish Church of the Annunciation, Tarxien
Eloquentia
13 January 2023 | 12:00pm
Johanna Rose (viola da gamba) and Javier Núñez (harpsichord)
Venue: The Refectory, Archbishop's Curia, Floriana
CPE Bach Sonatas
13 January 2023 | 4:00pm
Avi Avital (mandolin)
Venue: Bibliotheca, Valletta
Bach on Mandolin
13 January 2023 | 8:00pm
Les Passions de l’Âme
Venue: Teatru Manoel, Valletta
Bach - The Four Orchestral Suites
14 January 2023 | 12:00pm
Accademia del Piacere
Venue: Archaeology Museum, Valletta
Diálogos
14 January 2023 | 4:00pm
Vassilis Varvaresos (piano)
Venue: San Anton Palace, Attard
Adagio Religioso
14 January 2023 | 8:00pm
Accademia del Piacere
Venue: Archaeology Museum, Valletta
Chorales for Violas da Gamba and Organ
15 January 2023 | 11:00am
Abchordis Trio
Venue: Cathedral Museum, Mdina
Sonate da Camera del Barocco Napoletano
15 January 2023 | 3:00pm
lautten compagney BERLIN
Venue: Verdala Palace, Buskett
Biber & Piazzolla
15 January 2023 | 6:00pm
Weaver Ensemble
Venue: Teatru Manoel, Valletta
Steps in Love
18 January 2023 | 12:00pm
Sarah Spiteri (baroque viola) and Pablo Zapico (theorbo)
Venue: Bibliotheca, Valletta
Music from the Court of Versailles for Baroque Viola and Theorbo
18 January 2023 | 7:30pm
Gabetta Consort with Valer Barna-Sabadus (countertenor)
Venue: Teatru Manoel, Valletta
Baroque quintessence of Handel & Vivaldi
19 January 2023 | 12:00pm
SIGNUM Saxophone Quartet and Kai Schumacher (piano)
Venue: Phoenicia Hotel Ballroom, Floriana
Goldberg Nights
19 January 2023 | 7:30pm
Capella Cracoviensis
Venue: Church of the Immaculate Conception, Cospicua
Biber's Rosary Sonatas
20 January 2023 | 12:00pm
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord) Jonathan Keates (narrator)
Venue: St Mary of Jesus Church (Ta’ Ġieżu), Rabat
Kuhnau Biblical Sonatas
20 January 2023 | 4:00pm
Valletta Baroque Ensemble and Kor Malta
Venue: Santa Tereża ta' Ġesù, Cospicua
Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri, Bux WV 75
20 January 2023 | 8:00pm
Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri
Venue: Collegiate Basilica of St Helen, Birkirkara
Jomelli Requiem
21 January 2023 | 12:00pm
Arsenale Sonoro dir. Boris Begelman with Francesca Aspromonte (soprano)
Venue: Parish Church of the Assumption, Għaxaq
Ardet Meum Cor
21 January 2023 | 4:00pm
Isang Enders (cello) and Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
Venue: Verdala Palace, Buskett
The Bach Family, Marais, Dowland and others
21 January 2023 | 8:00pm
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with Trevor Bowes as Polifemo
Venue: Teatru Manoel, Valletta
Handel: Aci, Galatea e Polifemo
22 January 2023 | 11:00am
Steven Devine
Venue: Cathedral Museum, Mdina
Rameau's Divine Keyboard
21 January 2023 | 3:00pm
Steven Devine and Kate Semmens
Venue: Cathedral Museum, Mdina
Delicatessen
22 January 2023 | 6:00pm
Combattimento with Claudia Patacca (soprano)
Venue: Teatru Manoel, Valletta
Lust and Love Lost
25 January 2023 | 12:00pm
Prisma
Venue: Verdala Palace, Buskett
Il Transilvano
25 January 2023 | 7:30pm
L'Arte del Mondo with Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli (soprano)
Venue: Casino Maltese, Valletta
Delirio Amoroso
26 January 2023 | 12:00pm
Roberto Cominati (piano)
Venue: San Anton Palace, Attard
Bach, Handel, Scarlatti
26 January 2023 | 7:30pm
Camerata Kilkenny
Venue: Verdala Palace, Buskett
The Piper and the Fairy Queen
27 January 2023 | 12:00pm
Charlie Siem (violin)
Venue: Palazzo Parisio, Naxxar
Bach Spectacular Violin
27 January 2023 | 4:00pm
Passacaglia Trio
Venue: Verdala Palace, Buskett
To Touch the Heart
27 January 2023 | 7:30pm
Malta Philharmonic Orchestra
Venue: Church of the Circumcision of our Lord (Jesuits), Valletta
Inspired by Baroque
28 January 2023 | 12:00pm
Palisander
Venue: Malta Maritime Museum, Vittoriosa
Beware the Spider
28 January 2023 | 4:00pm
Hansjörg Albrecht (organ)
Venue: Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Balluta
Vivaldi Four Seasons & Handel Royal Fireworks Music
28 January 2023 | 7:30pm
Ensemble Divino Sospiro
Venue: Basilica of St Dominic, Valletta
Alessandro Scarlatti: Il Giardino di Rose
28 January 2023 | 9:30pm
The Rock Troupers
Venue: Teatru Manoel, Valletta
BaRock
29 January 2023 | 10:30pm
Cantarlontano/The Monteverdi Project dir. Marco Mencoboni
Venue: Church of the Circumcision of our Lord (Jesuits), Valletta
Liturgical Mass by Girolamo Abos (world premiere)
Kenneth Zammit Tabona
Artistic Director
The 11th Edition of the Valletta Baroque Festival is underway and it is as eclectic as ever. After two agonizingly long years of postponements due to the pandemic we now have a splendiferous programme that had been in accumulation since 2019.
Besides the time honoured baroque composers; Bach, Handel and the rest of the sacred band’s music played on baroque instruments we have transcriptions and paraphrases for piano, wind instruments, saxophones, organ and even a rock band. I wanted to highlight the enormous versatility of the baroque idiom and its mass appeal. Above all the festival’s strength lies in the wonderful baroque settings that one finds in Valletta and the Maltese archipelago; a precious legacy that each and every one of us Maltese treasure…
