NOTE: Because of the recent Corona Virus outbreak, all UCF SoPA concerts and recitals through the end of March 2020 have been cancelled. Similarly, almost every other live musical event anywhere in the Central Florida region (and elsewhere in the US) has also been postponed or cancelled. Nevertheless, you will be able to complete the concert attendance and report assignment by watching and reviewing any of the following selected YouTube video concerts. Please note that these videos have been chosen because most were live performances such as you might have chosen for the assignment. Please note the following about the items listed below:

• All performances listed below are acceptable for the first written assignment, i.e., all meet the basic requirements of content and length.
• All videos listed below are of live performances, and you should watch the video as well as listen, so that you might comment on aspects of the performances beyond the sound.
• Most videos listed below (above the double line) have some sort of concert program that indicates the composers and works being performed. Look in the note immediately below the video window, or be prepared to take down information directly from the video during the playing of the concert.
• All vocal music items have English subtitles, so that you will understand what is being sung. (Use the playback settings to activate.)
• You are encouraged to watch your chosen video as a full concert, i.e., at a single setting, as if you were present in the concert hall (as much as possible).
• You may view your chosen item (or any portion of it) as many times as you wish.

REMINDER: You are to complete your written report according to the posted instructions for the assignment, but because you are using a streaming video, you may refer to specific moments within the video by their timings (0:00), if you wish to discuss a particular moment or event. Remember, also, that you should identify the performers, composers, and work titles, just as if you had a program in your hand.

Harvard Baroque Chamberr Orchestra (22 November 2015)

• Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra presents A 20th Anniversary Celebration
• A mixed program of orchestral and some vocal music, primarily from the Baroque era and earlier.

Ullrich Böheme, Organ Recital (St. Thomaskirche, Leipig, 2000)

• Johann Sebastian Bach. Organ Concert in St. Thomas Church. Ullrich Bohme (organ)
• An organ recital of music by J.S. Bach in the same church where Bach worked for the last 27 years of his life.
• See the second comment (Samuel Labrecque) for a listing of the works played and track timings.

Benjamin Pearce Straley and George Fergus, Organ Recital (National Cathedral, Washington, DC, 25 December 2017)

• December 25, 2017: Christmas Day Organ Recital at Washington National Cathedral
• A program of music ranging from Bach to more recent works, including some Christmas tunes.
• A copy of the program is available via the hotlink in the notes immediately under the video.

Amsterdam Sinfonietta, with Janine Jansen, violin soloist (International Chamber Music Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 29 June 2014)

• Vivaldi: Four Seasons/Quattro Stagioni - Janine Jansen - Internationaal Kamermuziek Festival
• A concert performance of the entire set of four programmatic concerti by Vivaldi ("The Seasons")
• See the note directly below the video for track listings and timings.

I Virtuosi dell'Accademia di San Giovanni (Turin, 22 December 2018)

• Mozart & Haydn, live concert
• A live orchestral performance of W.A. Mozart, Sinfonia concertante, k. 364, and J. Haydn, Symphony No. 49, "la Passione"
• See the note directly below the video for track listings and timings.

W. A. Mozart, Requiem Mass, K. 626 (Royal Albert Hall, London, England, 2014)

• A Quality Mozart's Requiem @ The BBC Proms 2014
• Mozart's final, unfinished last work, a requiem mass for the dead, for chorus and orchestra.
• See the first comment (sjrobertson1984) for a listing of the works played and track timings.

Europa Galante (U.S. Library of Congress, 12 January 2018)

• Europa Galante Concert
• A mixed concert of mid-eighteenth century (late-Baroque and Early Classical) ensemble music
• See the first comment (Library of Congress) for a listing of the works and track timings.

Christoph Willibald Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice (Glyndebourne Opera Festival, London, 1982)

• Gluck - Orfeo ed Euridice (Leppard)
• A Classical era (mid-eighteenth century) setting of the same "Orpheus" legend set by Monteverdi and many others.

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, La serva padrona (I Barocchisti, 2008)

• Pergolesi: La Serva Padrona (English Subs)
• An outstanding performance of the new "comic" operatic style, opera buffa, developed in Southern Italy in the early eighteenth century.

Works below this point lack complete program information. You may do research on your own to locate texts, if you wish.

Gesualdo Consort, Two Bach Cantatas (Lutheran Church, The Haag, The Netherlands, 16 June 2012)

• Bach Cantate BWV 4 & BWV 80 - Gesualdo Consort - Musica Amphion - Live Concert HD
• a program of two complete church Cantatas (Nos. 4 and 8) by J.S. Bach, with a single organ work between them.

The English Concert (US Library of Congress, 14 October 2010)

• The English Concert
• A public concert by one of the longest-established European early music ensembles.

Apollo's Fire (US Library of Congress, 10 June 2016)

• Apollo's Fire
• Perhaps the finest U.S.-based early music ensemble peforming today.

Updated: 16 March 2020 (sw)