When the the award-winning young harpsichordist and conductor Jeannette Sorrel founded the Cleveland-based early music group Apollo’s Fire in 1992, she wasn’t sure how long the flames were going to last.
“My particular focus with Apollo’s Fire is trying to revive the way Baroque composers envisioned their music to be performed,” Sorrell said of the group named for the classical god of music and the sun.
Her own envisioning, however, included, “I thought, well, I’ll do this for a couple of years until it dies, then I’ll find something else to do.”
Instead, Apollo’s Fire, which plays on period instruments, is returning to Worcester as part of its 30th anniversary season with a concert at 8 p.m. March 25 presented by Music Worcester. The program will feature works by J.S. Bach and Vivaldi.
“Vivaldi was the composer who Bach seems to have studied the most and it’s fun to play their music side by side and in some instances we can see how Vivaldi influenced Bach,” Sorrell said.
