The Well-Tempered Ear

Classical music: The Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble will perform instrumental and vocal early music by Vivaldi, Telemann, Monteverdi and other composers this Sunday afternoon.

By Jacob Stockinger

The Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble, the early music group based in Madison, will perform a concert of instrumental and vocal chamber music on Sunday, February 9, at 3 p.m. in the historic Gates of Heaven Synagogue (below), 300 East Gorham Street, in James Madison Park in downtown Madison.

Performers in the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble include:  University of Wisconsin-Madison Mimmi Fulmer, soprano; Consuelo Sañudo, mezzo-soprano; Theresa Koenig, recorder and baroque bassoon; Brett Lipshutz, traverse and recorder; Mary Perkinson, baroque violin; Monica Steger, traverse and recorder; Eric Miller, viola da gamba and baroque cello; Anton TenWolde, baroque cello; and Max Yount, harpsichord.

Tickets at the door only are $15 ($10 for students). Feel free to bring your own chair or pillow. For more information 608-238-5126 or visit www.wisconsinbaroque.org

The program consists of:

1.    Louis-Antoine Dornel – Sonate en Quattuor

2.    Claudio Monteverdi – “Lamento d’Arianna”

3.    Johann Mattheson – Sonata for three recorders, Opus 1, No. 5

4.    Georg Philipp Telemann – Sonata 1 from “Six Quatuors” (Paris Quartets) TWV42:A1

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5.    Sigismondo d’India – “Dove potro”

“Chi nudrisce”

6.    Michel Corette – Sonata in E minor, Opus 25, No. 4: “Les Amusements D’Appollon Chez Le Roi Admete”

7.    Antonio Vivaldi – “Pianti, sospiri”, RV 676

8.    Joseph Bodin de Boismortier – “Balets de Village en Trio,” Opus 52, No. 1