Despite irritating flourishes, BSO displays some creativity with Vivaldi, Bach and Handel

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra offered an easy-listening concert on a balmy summer's eve Thursday at Strathmore. Led by BSO concertmaster Jonathan Carney, the program consisted of well-known numbers by Vivaldi, Bach and Handel, with a movement from the "Holberg Suite" by Grieg. Although the orchestra was greatly reduced, it still lumbered in the faster pieces and made the harpsichord onstage basically an inaudible piece of furniture, but for a few anticipatory arpeggios.