By Jacob Stockinger
This Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m., a concert of French Baroque chamber music will take place.
Performers are UW-Madison alumna and current graduate student, soprano Chelsie Propst (below top); baroque violinists Nathan Giglierano and Laura Thompson; Eric Miller (below middle) on baroque cello and viola da gamba; and organist Sigrun Franzen (below bottom).
The concert will be performed at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church (below, exterior and interior), 1833 Regent Street, on Madison’s near west side.
Admission is $10.
The program includes “Médée” (Medea) by Louis-Nicolas Clérambault; “La Sultanne” by François Couperin (below in a YouTube video); “La mort de Didon” (The Death of Dido) by Michel Pignolet de Montéclair; and “Ditemi, o piante,” HWV 107, by George Frideric Handel.
By Jacob Stockinger
The critically acclaimed and long-lived early music group the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble (below) — which uses period instruments and historically informed performance practices — will celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach this Saturday night. (You can hear a sample of C.P.E. Bach’s appealing music at the bottom in a YouTube video of a Trio Sonata.)
The concert – which includes the work of other rarely performed composers and works — will be at 8 p.m. in the landmark and historic Gates of Heaven synagogue in James Madison Park, at 300 East Gorham Street, in downtown Madison.
Members of the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble include Brett Lipshutz – traverso, recorder; Eric Miller – viola da gamba, baroque cello; Consuelo Sañudo – mezzo-soprano; Monica Steger – traverso flute, recorder, harpsichord; Anton TenWolde – baroque cello; and Max Yount – harpsichord.
Tickets at the door are $20, $10 for students). Feel free to bring your own chair or pillow.
For more information, call (608) 238-5126 or visit www.wisconsinbaroque.org.
Here is the complete program for “Celebrating C.P.E. Bach”:
1. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (below, 1714-1788) – Trio Sonata in d-minor Wq 145
2 Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667-1737) – “L’Amour vangé
3. Pieter Hellendaal (1721-1799) – Sonata No. 1 for the violoncello and the thorough bass.
4. Johann Philipp Kirnberger (1721-1783) – Sonata No. 8 for traverso and basso continuo
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5. Louis-Gabriel Guillemain (1705-1770) – Sonata in Quartet No. 3, opus 12 (1743)
6. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Sonata for viola da gamba and basso continuo, Wq 88/H 510 (1759)
7. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Six New Keyboard Pieces, from the supplement to “Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen,” 3rd edition (Leipzig, 1787). Sonatina I in G Major: Allegro, Wq 63/7; Sonatina V in F Major: Andante, Wq 63/11; Sonatina III in D Major: Allegretto, Wq 63/9
8. Juan Hidalgo de Polanco (1614-1685) ”Quedito, Pasito”
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