The Well-Tempered Ear

Classical music: The Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble performs baroque chamber music this Saturday night in Madison. Plus, harpist Linda Warren performs a FREE concert at noon on Friday.

ALERT: This week’s FREE Friday Noon Musicale, which runs from 12:15 to 1 p.m. in the Landmark Auditoriun of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed First Unitarian Society of Madison, 900 University Bay Drive, will feature harpist Linda Warren (below) playing music by Benjamin Britten, Pearl Chertok and Astor Piazzolla.

By Jacob Stockinger

The Ear has received the following note:

The Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble invites the public to a concert of baroque chamber music.

The concert is this Saturday night, April 11, at 8 p.m. in Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church (the exterior is below top, the interior is below bottom), 1833 Regent Street, Madison, on the near west side.

Members of the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble include: Brett Lipshutz – traverso; Eric Miller – viola da gamba, baroque cello; Consuelo Sañudo – mezzo-soprano; Monica Steger – traverso, harpsichord; Martha Vallon – viola da gamba; and Max Yount – harpsichord.

Tickets at the door only: $20 for the public, $10 for students.

For more information call (608) 238-5126 or visit www.wisconsinbaroque.org.

The program includes:

1. Jean-Marie Leclair – Première Récréation de Musique (You can hear it in a YouTube video at the bottom)
2. Louis Marchand – Pièces de Clavecin, Suite No. 1 in D minor (1702) (selected movements)
3. George Frideric Handel – “Nice, che fa? Che pensa?”
4. Johan Helmich Roman – Sonata No. 3 for flauto traverso in C minor

Intermission

5. Michel Pignolet de Montéclair – Ariana et Bachus
6. Marin Marais – Pièces de Viole, Book 3 (selected movements)
7. Jacques Hotteterre – Trio Sonatas, Op. 3, No. 1