Galant and Grounded: Paying for Time Travel with the Currency of Music

Saturday, 8 February 2014, 7:30 P.M. 
Trinity Parish Church, in the sanctuary

The program:

Johann Philipp Kirnberger (1721-1783)
Sonata 8 in G,
from the Giedde Collection, Copenhagen
Adagio
Allegro
Allegro

From the Board Lute Book, circa 1620
Prelude - Anonymous
Delacourt Pavin - Anonymous
Rogero - Anonymous
Lady Banning's Almand - John Sturt (fl. 1610-12)
The Spanish Measures - Richard Allyson (ca. 1570-after 1606)

Angelo Maria Fiorè (1660-1723)
from Trattenimenti da camera a due stromenti . . . op. 1
Sinfonia à Violoncello Solo, con il Basso Continuo
Adagio - Allegro - Affetuoso - Presto
Sinfonia à Violoncello e Cembalo (1701)
Grave - Canzona. Presto - Grave - [Allegro]

Intermission

Ottoman Turkish, 17th century, Anonymous
In Makam Rast
Taksim
Peşrev
Saz semaisi

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Fantasias IV, IX, and XII (TWV 40:5, 40:10, 40:13)
from XII Fantasias for flute without bass, 1732/33

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sarabande
From Sixth Suite for solo cello, BWV 1012

Elinor Frey (b. 1979)
Variazioni sopra “La Follia” (2011) (6:00)

Elisabeth Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729)
Sonata in D, 1707
Presto
Adagio
Presto
Presto


Kim Pineda, transverse flute
Elinor Frey, cello
August Denhard, theorbo, lute, plectrum lute

UPDATE: 2013-14 Season in Seattle!

UPDATE:

The Fall Fundraising Fiesta will be held at Trinity Parish Church, in the Parish Hall, starting at 5:30 PM. Please click HERE  to get your tickets/make your contribution before the event.

For 2013-14 we present three diverse programs.

Concert I: 5 October 2013
Fall Fundraising Fiesta! A fundraising concert and party at Trinity Parish Church in the Parish Hall, featuring food, wine, & four centuries of music. Visit our website and click on the "Tickets" tab for more information about this event.

Concert II: 8 February 2014
Galant and Grounded: Paying for Time Travel with the Currency of Music.
In this concert we travel between the Galant style of the 18th century and the rhapsodic, capricious styles of the 17th century. Music by Fontana, Fiorè, Gabrielli, Kapsberger, Kirnberger, Blavet, and CPE Bach.

Concert III: 3 May 2014
Good Day Sun King: Baroque Music from New Orleans and New France.
Baroque music in New Orleans? Founded in 1718 by the French, it was not long before the Lower Mississippi Valley was populated with French people and French culture. And up river in Montreal and Québec, Parisian music publishers provided the northernmost part of New France with music of all types from "back home." Vocal and instrumental music from New Orleans's Ursuline Manuscript of 1736, plus music by Monteclair, Couperin, Marais, and other composers from the reign of Louis XIV.

Battle of the Bands: Le Roi Soleil and Sanssouci take on the Dresden Hofkapelle

4 May 2012

Program:

Johann David Heinichen (1683-1729)

Sonata in D

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784)

Sonata in C, BR A 2a / Fk 1B

Johann-Joachim Quantz  (1697-1773)

Sonata in e, Op. 1, No. V

Intermission

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)

Sonata in a, H. 555

Marin Marais (1656-1728)

Suite in a, from Pièces de violes, IIIe Livre (1711)

Michel Blavet (1700-1768)

Sonata Prima, Op. 3

Feast of Hamburgers: Music from Eighteenth-Century Hamburg

Our 2011-12 Season begins on September 17, 2011.

German Baroque is more than J S Bach in Leipzig, the formidable Hofkapelle in Dresden, or the musical establishments of Frederick the Great in Berlin and Potsdam. Since the seventeenth century the city of Hamburg has held an important place in music and international trade, and in the eighteenth century it became a major music center. This was no doubt the result of composers such as Telemann, Mattheson, and later CPE Bach living there. Even George Frideric Handel worked in Hamburg early in his career, where he gained valuable experience that he would later use as an opera composer. Kim Pineda, August Denhard, Max Fuller, and Bernard Gordillo explore the repast of chamber music by these Hamburger composers. And we are happy to again have the music of Tim Risher on our program. His composition "River" was written for Kim Pineda and was premiered in August 2011 at the National Flute Association's Annual Convention in Charlotte, NC.

Our Program

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Trio Sonata in b, TWV 42:h4
From Essercizii Musici overo Dodeci Soli e Dodeci Trii a diversi stromenti (c. 1730s)
Largo
Vivace
Dolce
Vivace

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Aria [and improvisation], BWV 988

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Sonata for Viola da Gamba and Basso Continuo in g, HWV 364b
Andante Larghetto
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro

Johann Adolf Scheibe (1708-1776)
Sonata I in D for flute and obliggato harpsichord
Adagio
Allegro
Andante
Poco Presto

INTERMISSION

Tim Risher (b. 1957)
River (2009)
Flute and Harpsichord

Johann Mattheson (1681-1764)
Sonata III in A, from Brauchbare Virtuoso, 1720
Adagio
Allegro
Grave
Giga

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Sonata in G, H. 554
Adagio
Allegro
Vivace

Baroque à la mode program

Concert preview in the Seattle Times.


Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1685-1765)
Sonata in a, Op. 37, No. 2

Marin Marais (1656-1728)
Le Labyrinthe, Book IV, 1717

Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764)
Sonata in G, Op. IX, no. 7

François Couperin (1668-1733)
“Les langueurs-tendres,” and “Les baricades mistérieuses”
From 6e ordre, Bb, Second livre de pieces de clavecin (Paris, 1716–17)

Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (1674-1763)
“L’autre jour ma Cloris,” from Airs et Brunettes
"Rocher, je ne veux point que", from the Ursuline MS, New Orleans, 1734

Henry Grenerin (c. 1625-c. 1700)
Chaconne, from Livre de guitarre (1680), with improvisation

Michel Blavet (1700-1768)
Sonata in D, Op. 3, No. 5

Kim Pineda, Transverse flute
Ronnee Fullerton, Viola da gamba
Elizabeth C. D. Brown, Baroque guitar
August Denhard, Theorbo
Special Guest: Bernard Gordillo, Harpsichord

Our 2009-2010 Season!

Concert One, September 19, 2009

Baroque à la mode

Couperin, Leclair, Marais, and Boismortier were all successful French composers who wrote beautiful chamber music for a variety of tastes. Their works are among the most cherished by today's performers and audiences alike. Harpsichordist Bernard Gordillo returns to Seattle to join the Baroque Northwest quartet.

Concert Two, December 19, 2009

The Spice of Life: Variations on Musical Themes

Vocal and instrumental music were closely tied together in the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods each genre inspiring the other. While instrumentalists were on a quest to imitate the human voice, vocalists were inspired to new heights by their brilliant instrumental colleagues. Exhausting the potential of a musical theme through variation is a crowning achievement by musicians of all periods. Join the Baroque Northwest Quartet for instru- mental variations of vocal music, dance music, and everything in between.Variety is the spice of life!

Concert Three, February 6, 2010

The Scottish Harp, with Maxine Eilander

Early harp virtuoso Maxine Eilander joins Elizabeth C.D. Brown, Gus Denhard, and Ronnee Fullerton for music of Scotland, with a nod to Wales, Ireland, and Britain. The harp passed freely between the worlds of traditional and art music during the Renaissance and Baroque as it does today, and the British Isles produced some of the world’s finest “harpers” and performance styles. Baroque Northwest puts it all together with Maxine, one of Seattle’s musical treasurers.

Concert Four, March 20, 2010

Back to Basics: Baroque Northwest does the Standards

Revisit the Baroque standards as envisioned by the creative minds and instrumental palette of the Baroque Northwest Quartet. Like a jazz combo playing the standards from the golden age of jazz, Baroque Northwest returns to its roots and pays homage to the most renowned composers of the high Baroque. Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, Telemann; it’s all good!