April 13, 2013 The Return of Smoke & Blisters: Virtuosic Chamber Music with a Dash of Pyrotechnics

Program from April 13, 2013


Michel Blavet (1700-1765)
Sonata Terza, Op. 3
Vivace  Largo poco andante  Allegro

Giuseppe Vaccari (fl. 18th-c.)
Concerto in C Major
Allegro  Andante  Allegro

Johann-Joachim Quantz (1697-1773)
Sonata IV, Op. 1
Grave e sostenuto  Presto  Vivace

Intermission

Improvisation: Taksim in Makam Rast
Mutlu Torun (b.1942)
Misrap Kaydirma Etüdü

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sonata in e, BWV 1034
Adagio ma non tanto  Allegro  Andante  Allegro

Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764)
Sonata VII, Op. 2
Adagio  Allegro  Sarabanda  Allegro assai

Kim Pineda, Transverse flute
Max Fuller, Viola da gamba
Hideki Yamaya, Mandolino and Mandora
August Denhard, Theorbo and plectrum lute

Breaking Baroque: Diminutions, Divisions, & the End of the Renaissance

Program for 12  January 2013

Jacques-Martin Hottererre (1674-1763), from Airs et brunettes (1721)

Nicolas va voir Jeanne (Anonymous)

Vous qui faites votre modelle (Jean-Baptiste Drouard de Bousset, 1662-1725)

L’autre jour ma Cloris (Anonymous)

Robert Johnson (1583-1634), Have you seen the white lily?

Anonymous, Music, thou soul of heaven

William Lawes (1602-1645), Why so pale and wan, fair lover?

Nicholas Lanier (1588-1666), Like hermit poor in pensive place obscure

Georg Muffat

Sonata in D (1677)

Giovanni Battista Fontana (?1589-?1630)

Sonata seconda (+1641) , from Sonate a 1. 2. 3. per il violino. . . altro istromento

Juan Cabanilles (1644-1712)

Corrente italiana

Giulio Caccini (1551-1618)

Torna, deh torna, from Nuove musiche e nuova maniera di scriverle (1614)

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

Si dolce è tormento, from Quarto scherzo delle ariose vaghezze (1624)

Giovanni Bassano (1558-1617)

            Ricercata terza, from Ricercate, passagi et cadentie (1585)

Ung gay bergier, after Crequillon (1505-1557), from Madrigali … con passaggi (1602)

Denhard and Pineda

Improvisations on the Romanesca and Conde claros

Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c. 1620-23-1680)

Sonata quarta, from Sonatae unarum fidium (1664)

Kim Pineda, Baroque flute and recorders
August Denhard, Lutes and theorbo

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