Orchestra of St. Luke’s; Krista Bennion Feeney, violin; Sherezade Panthaki, soprano All-Vivaldi Program Concerto for Strings in C Major, RV 117 (1720/24) “In Furore lustissimae Irae”, RV 626 Four Seasons (1721-25) WQXR HOST: Terrance McKnight About the Performers Orchestra of St. Luke's grew out of a chamber ensemble that gathered in the Church of St. Luke in the Fields in Greenwich Village in 1974. Now St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble consists of 22 virtuoso artists with a diverse repertoire spanning Baroque to contemporary. The Ensemble forms the artistic core of the Orchestra of St. Luke's, one of America's foremost ensembles. Violinist Krista Bennion Feeney has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra, Mostly Mozart Festival, and the New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and at the Kennedy Center. Soprano Sherezade Panthaki has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, American Classical Orchestra, New York Baroque Incorporated. She has been praised for “astonishing coloratura with radiant top notes” (Calgary Herald); “a full, luxuriously toned upper range” (The Los Angeles Times), a vocal color “combining brilliance with a dark, plumlike tone” (The Wall Street Journal).
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