New Directions Series
Music from the Baroque to Carter and Pearlman
This season Boston Baroque and Music Director Martin Pearlman inaugurate a new concert series that includes baroque and contemporary music played on both baroque and modern instruments. New Directions:Music from the Baroque to Carter and Pearlman, sponsored by Friends of Daniel Steiner, consists of four programs that complement Boston Baroque’s 2012–13 subscription concerts in NEC’s Jordan Hall and Sanders Theatre by being presented in smaller venues; the Edward Pickman Concert Hall at the Longy School of Music of Bard College and First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden Street.
New Directions opened its inaugural season on Sunday September 23 at 7:00 pm, with the premiere of a new work by Martin Pearlman based on James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. The other three concerts will take place on Saturday November 3 at 7:00 pm, featuring baroque and contemporary vocal and instrumental chamber music; Sunday February 3 at 3:00 pm, with chamber music written for baroque ensembles, including Elliott Carter’s Sonata (1953); and Friday March 22 at 7:30pm, featuring Boston Baroque’s concertmaster Christina Day Martinson, in Biber’s Mystery Sonatas: Part II.
Single tickets also available online and by phone 617 987 8600 x 113
The next concert in the series is on
Sunday, February 3, 3:00 pm
Edward Pickman Concert Hall at the Longy School of Music of Bard College.
Trios Plus
Music for Baroque trio sonata ensemble from early 17th century Venice to the mid 20th century. The program features violinists Christina Day Martinson and Sarah Darling, harpsichordist Martin Pearlman, with Sarah Freiberg baroque cello. Martin Pearlman is joined by flutist Sarah Brady, oboe player Jennifer Slowik and cellist Joshua Gordon for Elliott Carter's Sonata.
Arcangelo Corelli: Trio Sonata in Bb, Op. 3 No. 3 (published 1689)
Dario Castello: Sonata No 3, from Sonate concertate in stile moderno, Book I(published1621)
Elliott Carter: Sonata for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord (1952)
François Couperin: L'Apothéose de Lully (1725)
narrated by WGBH's Cathy Fuller
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Friday March 22, 7:30 pm,
First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA
Heinrich Biber
The Mystery Sonatas, Part II
Featuring baroque violinist Christina Day Martinson with Martin Pearlman on keyboards, Sarah Freiberg, cello and Victor Coelho, theorbo. Boston Baroque's concertmaster Christina Day Martinson completes her tour de force survey of one of the pinnacles of the virtuoso violin repertoire – playing multiple violins; with a different tuning for each sonata. Boston Classical Review called last year's performance of Part I "a flourish of technical complexity and musical wizardry," and the Boston Globe wrote, "Day Martinson…didn't just survive, she triumphed. Aficionados will be waiting with bated breath [for Part II]."
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Sunday September 23 at 7:00 pm
Edward Pickman Concert Hall at the Longy School of Music of Bard College.
Martin Pearlman, Composer
Martin Pearlman: Finnegans Wake — An Operoar
(work in progress) premiere
This work in progress sets the opening pages of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake for an actor and seven instrumentalists. When excerpts were performed at the Huntington Library in Pasadena in June 2011, the James Joyce Quarterly wrote, "[This is] the first musical adaptation of a large unbroken portion of the book… At the end there was a universal ovation.” Join us for this open workshop performance, which will include discussion with the audience. Featured actor Adam Harvey, who specializes in performing sections of Finnegans Wake, will join Composer/Director Martin Pearlman and instrumentalists, Sarah Brady, flute and piccolo, William Kirkley, clarinet and bass clarinet, Danielle Maddon, violin, Sarah Darling, viola, Anthony d'Amico, double bass, Robert Schulz, percussion and Donald Berman, piano.
Read more about Adam Harvey's work and see a video of him perform an excerpt from Finnegans Wake (the book), in this article from The New Yorker.
A short excerpt from Pearlman's Finnegans Wake-- An Operoar and a little discussion about the piece can be heard in this short video about Martin Pearlman made by BU Today in March 2012.
Saturday November 3, 7:00 pm
Edward Pickman Concert Hall at the Longy School of Music of Bard College.
Vocal and Instrumental Chamber Music: Baroque and Modern
A program featuring Boston Baroque vocalists Teresa Wakim, Brenna Wells and Katherine Growdon, recorder player Aldo Abreu, harpsichordists Martin Pearlman and Peter Sykes, violinist Sarah Darling, cellist Sarah Freiberg Ellison, and viola da gamba players, Laura Jeppesen, Emily Walhout and Jane Hershey, in music ranging from the beginning of the 17th century to 1968.
The program:
Pieter de Vois (c.1581–1654)
Fantasia
Jacob van Noort (1619–1681)
Eerste Petit Branle
Tweede Petit Branle
Derde Petit Branle
Vierde Petit Branle
Vijfde Petit Branle
Aldo Abreu, recorder
Johann Christoph Bach (1642–1703)
Ach, daß ich Wassers g’nug hätte
Katherine Growdon, mezzo-soprano
Sarah Darling, Baroque violin
Laura Jeppesen, viol
Emily Walhout, viol
Jane Hershey, viol
Sarah Freiberg, Baroque cello
Peter Sykes, organ
Three pieces for viol consort:
Thomas Lupo (1571–c. 1627)
Fantasia a 3
Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625)
Fantasia a 3
Henry Purcell (1659–1695)
Fantasia a 4
Laura Jeppesen, Emily Walhout, Jane Hershey, Sarah Freiberg, viols
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
Se tu non lasci amore: Duo
Meine Seele hört im Sehen: Aria for soprano and violin
Quel fior che all’ alba ride: Duo
Teresa Wakim, Brenna Wells, sopranos
Katherine Growdon, mezzo-soprano
Sarah Darling, Baroque violin
Sarah Freiberg, Baroque cello
Peter Sykes, harpsichord
Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713)
La Folia, op. 5, no. 12
Aldo Abreu, recorder
Sarah Freiberg, Baroque cello
Martin Pearlman, harpsichord
Luciano Berio (1925–2003)
Gesti (1966)
Aldo Abreu, recorder
François Couperin (1668–1733)
Les barricades mistérieuse
György Ligeti (1923–2006)
Continuum (1968)
Martin Pearlman, harpsichord
George Frideric Handel
Nò, di voi non vo’ fidarmi: Duo
Teresa Wakim, Brenna Wells, sopranos
Sarah Freiberg, Baroque cello
Martin Pearlman, harpsichord
