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Apollo's Fire/ Sorrell - "Come to the River" LIVE: Willie, Prithee Goe to Bed apollosfirebaroque 710 views Apollo's Fire live in "Come to the River" at Cain Park, Cleveland Heights, OH, June 25, 2010. "Willie, Prithee Goe to Bed" Traditional Appalachian Tune Paul Shipper, b...
La Folia Variations & The Flower Rownde -- Jeannette Sorrell, harpsichord apollosfirebaroque 439 views Jeannette Sorrell performs variations on La Folia, from the "Selva di varie compositioni d'intavolatura per cimbalo ed organo" by Bernardo Storace, 1664. This segues into ...
Froberger - Tombeau pour Blancrocher Jeannette Sorrell, harpsichord apollosfirebaroque 780 views The 17th-century composer J. J. Froberger composed this tombeau in memory of his colleague Monsieur Blancrocher, who is said to have died after tumbling down the stairs in ...
Mediterranean Nights ON TOUR SPRING 2012 apollosfirebaroque 971 views ON TOUR: Spring 2012 For information visit: apollosfire.org Captivating Spanish and Italian love songs, castanets and driving foot percussion make this a memorable ev...
Handel's Messiah - The Musician as Storyteller - Apollo's Fire apollosfirebaroque 1,016 views Excerpts from Chapter 2 of the DVD by Apollo's Fire and Jeannette Sorrell. This DVD accompanies the new December 2010 CD release of Handel's Messiah by Apollo's Fire, on t...
Handel's Messiah - A Theatrical/Spiritual Journey - Apollo's Fire apollosfirebaroque 1,905 views Excerpts from Chapter 1 of the DVD by Apollo's Fire and Jeannette Sorrell. This DVD accompanies the new December 2010 CD release of Handel's Messiah by Apollo's Fire, on t...
"Glory in the Meeting House" from COME TO THE RIVER - Apollo's Fire/Sorrell apollosfirebaroque 2,971 views "Glory in the Meeting House", Appalachian fiddle tune, arranged by Tina Bergmann, René Schiffer & Jeannette Sorrell. From the hit crossover program, "Come to the River: A...
Apollo's Fire/Sorrell - "Come to the River" LIVE: Part 1 - Appalachian Barn Dance & Introduction apollosfirebaroque 1,342 views Apollo's Fire live in "Come to the River" at Cain Park, Cleveland Heights, OH, June 25, 2010. "Appalachian Barn Dance," New England & Appalachian fiddle tunes, arr. Jea...
Apollo's Fire/Sorrell - "Come to the River" LIVE: Cluck Old Hen & Whiskey Before Breakfast apollosfirebaroque 776 views Apollo's Fire live in "Come to the River" at Cain Park, Cleveland Heights, OH, June 25, 2010. "Cluck Old Hen - Whiskey Before Breakfast: - Old-Time fiddle tunes arrange...
"Down in the River to Pray" from COME TO THE RIVER - Apollo's Fire/Sorrell apollosfirebaroque 8,095 views The southern folk hymn "Down in the River to Pray" is featured in Apollo's Fire's hit crossover program "Come to the River: An Early American Gathering" by Jeannette Sorrel...

About APOLLO'S FIRE. . . . . . . . The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra

Jeannette Sorrell, Music Director

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"The renowned baroque orchestra... plays with personality and temperament."
- THE NEW YORK TIMES

"One of America's leading baroque orchestras, capable of competing with Europe's much-recorded bands."
- THE BOSTON GLOBE

"Led by a brilliant harpsichordist, Jeannette Sorrell, the ensemble exudes stylish energy . . . a blend of scholarship and visceral intensity."
- GRAMOPHONE

"They were turning people away at the door . . . That unusually large turnout was warranted by the stylishness and boundless verve of Jeannette Sorrell and her musicians. Apollo's Fire is a superb ensemble."
- THE WASHINGTON POST

In 1992, an award-winning young harpsichordist and conductor, Jeannette Sorrell, gathered some of her generation's finest period-instrument artists to create a new baroque orchestra in Cleveland. A former student of both Gustav Leonhardt and Leonard Bernstein, Sorrell envisioned an ensemble dedicated to the baroque ideal that music should evoke the various Affekts or passions in the listeners.

Apollo's Fire, named after the classical god of music and the sun, is a collection of creative artists who share Sorrell's passion for drama and rhetoric. The ensemble has been praised internationally for stylistic freshness and buoyancy, animated spontaneity, technical excellence, and for the creativity of Sorrell's programming.

Apollo's Fire has been featured on many national and international broadcasts, including holiday programs carried by the European Broadcasting Union. The ensemble has performed at such venues as the Aspen Music Festival, the Boston Early Music Festival winter series, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and many festivals and concert series in New York, Philadelphia, Miami, and Toronto.

Apollo's Fire and Sorrell have released 14 commercial CDs, including the Monteverdi Vespers which was hailed as "a stunning achievement - wins out handily over William Christie's version." (Fanfare Record Magazine, USA)

"Sorrell has developed one of the most enterprising and plucky early music ensembles in the nation today."
- AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE

"The exhilaration and sense of discovery is utterly infectious."
- INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
(GREAT BRITAIN)

ARTISTIC PHILOSOPHY
"Music is a form of communication - a language that resonates with people in an emotional and spiritual way. The treatises from the 17th and 18th centuries talk about Affekt - the emotional character of the music. The performer's role was to evoke a particular emotional state in the listeners - whether that be joy or contemplation or rage or despair or triumph. The baroque performer used every possible means to cast his emotional spell on the audience: rhetoric, gesture, harmony.

Apollo's Fire is a collection of artists who believe passionately that our job is to communicate - to take the listeners with us on an emotional journey. If, at the end of two hours, the audience is moved to tears, or joy, or laughter, or prayer, then we've done a good night's work."

— Jeannette Sorrell