concert review: Philharmonia Baroque

What do you do when the pre-concert lecturer makes the same obvious joke you were going to make in your review? Answer, just suck it up and attribute it to him.

Philharmonia Baroque concerts tend to be educational in presentation, so I wind up devoting more of my reviews of them to explaining the history of the music than to evaluating the performance, beyond saying "It was good," because it always is.