Antonio Vivaldi "La Folia" - Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra/Jeannette Sorrell

The folia is an ancient dance from Portugal, where young girls engaged in the "folly" of a wild dance of abandonment. The Folia dance traditionally gets faster and wilder toward the end. This arrangement by Jeannette Sorrell is a concerto grosso, after Vivaldi's triosonata La Folia. Cynthia Roberts and Julie Andrijeski, violini principali Rene Schiffer, continuo cello Miho Hashizume, Johanna Novom, Carrie Krause, Emi Tanabe, Adriane Post, violini ripieni Karina Fox, Kristen Linfante, viola Mime Y. Brinkmann, cello Sue Yelanjian, contrabass Christa Patton, baroque harp William Simms, baroque guitar Jeannette Sorrell, harpsichord/direction Highlights from the Feb. 2008 performance for WVIZ-PBS studios, Cleveland, Ohio. Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra, Jeannette Sorrell, director. www.apollosfire.org

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was an Italian Baroque musical composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher and cleric. Born in Venice, he is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe. He composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other instruments, as well as sacred choral works and more than forty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as the Four Seasons.

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