Music of the Baroque on Period Instruments
2006-2007 Season:
Shakespeare and the Literary Tradition in 18th Century British Music
The Lure of the Antique: Music and the Grand Tour
Jane Austen’s World in Music and Dance
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January 13, 2007
The Lure of the Antique: Music and the Grand Tour
Pre-concert lecture at 7:30 pm; Concert at 8:00 pm
Unitarian Church of Princeton
Laura Heimes, soprano
Elissa Wagman, baroque violin
Dongmyung Ahn, baroque violin
Tom Moore, baroque flute & recorder
John Burkhalter, recorder
Donna Fournier, viola da gamba & baroque cello
Janet Palumbo, harpsichord
The lure of the antique world was powerful in the 18th century. While the poetry, myths, and history of the ancient world had long been part of the curriculum for an educated citizen, the discovery of the buried Roman city of Pompei in 1748, along with other archeological and artistic discoveries, sparked a renewed fascination with antiquity. With music from France, Germany, England, and Italy on the program, all treating some aspect of the 18th century’s reaction to the ancient world, this will be a musical Grand Tour.
PROGRAM:
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
(1665-1746) Musical Parnassus, Suite No. 1
“Clio” for harpsichord solo
Elizabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre
(1665-1729) Le Sommeil d’Ulisse
(Ulysses’ Dream),
Cantata No. 3
François Couperin Le Parnasse, ou l'Apothéose
(1668-1733) de Corelli
(The Apotheosis of Corelli)
Trio Sonata for 2 violins
and basso continuo
INTERMISSION
Georg Philipp Telemann Suite from Der Getreue Musikmeister
(1681-1767)
Giuseppe Tartini Sonata in G minor, op. 1, no. 10
(1692-1770)
George Frideric Handel Armida abbandonata
(1685-1759)