Classical music: The Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble will perform a NON-holiday concert this Saturday night. Also on Saturday, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and the Canadian Brass celebrate the holidays and the city of Middleton’s 50th anniversary.

ALERT: Middleton Tourism and the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra invite you to a holiday celebration with the world famous Canadian Brass (below) at Middleton’s Performing Arts Center attached to Middleton High School. Two performances are on this Saturday, November 30, at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.  The concert will also celebrate “Happy 50th Anniversary” to the city of Middleton with an exciting program of seasonal favorites including “Gesu Bambino,” “Winter Wonderland,” “Christmas Time is Here” and “Polonaise” from “Christmas Eve.” For more information, visit:

http://wcoconcerts.org/performances/special-performances/73/event-info/

By Jacob Stockinger

This Saturday night at 8 p.m., the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble (below) will perform a concert of baroque vocal and instrumental chamber music performed on period instruments.

The concert will take place at the Historic Gates of Heaven Synagogue (below) in James Madison Park in downtown Madison at 300 East Gorham Street.

The performers include: Consuelo Sañudo – mezzo soprano; Theresa Koenig – recorder, baroque bassoon; Brett Lipshutz – traverse; Monica Steger – traverso, recorder; Eric Miller – viola da gamba, baroque cello; Anton TenWolde – baroque cello (below); and Max Yount – harpsichord

Tickets are available at the door only: General admission is $15 ($10 for students). Feel free to bring your own chair or pillow (the wooden pews can feel very hard and uncomfortable).

Here is the unusual program. The first composer is so obscure, the members of the ensemble say that they don’t even have initials for him.

1.    Company – “Pagando estoy”

2.    Louis-Antoine Dornel (1685-1765) – Sonata No. 4 in D Major from Sonatas for Solo Violin and Suite for Flute

3.    Jean Baptiste Barrière – Cello Sonata No. 3, Book 2

4.    George Friderich Handel – Sonata 4 in A minor for recorder and basso continuo, HWV 362   (See and hear the YouTube video at bottom.)

5.    Clemente Imaña – “Filis yo tengo”

INTERMISSION

6.    Georg Böhm – Capriccio in D major

7.    Antoine Forqueray – Pièces de viole, Suite No. 1

8.    Jaques-Martin Hotteterre – Sonates en trio, Book 1, Op. 3, No. 1

9.    Georg Philipp Telemann – Sonata in F minor for bassoon and basso continuo

10. Sebastián Durón – “Al dormir el sol”

For more information, visit www.wisconsinbaroque.org.

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