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2011–2012 ConcertsMid season subscriptions are still available• Mostly Fridays • Mostly Saturdays • Any 3 concerts Subscribers Enjoy • The best seats • 15% discounts on additional tickets and CDs Subscribe by Phone & Fax at 617.987.8600 Individual Tickets are on sale for all remaining performances of the season
GALA NEW YEAR’S EVE & FIRST DAY CONCERTS Arcangelo Corelli J.S. Bach G.F. Handel Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Vivaldi Celebrate the New Year with beautiful music! An annual tradition, this season's concerts feature Boston Baroque's Christina Day Martinson and Julie Leven in Bach's Concerto for Two Violins, a sparkling Corelli concerto grosso, triple harp soloist Barbara Poeschl-Edrich in a Handel harp concerto, Aldo Abreu in a Vivaldi recorder concerto, soprano Mary Wilson in a Vivaldi Motet. . . and a surprise finale. “Boston Baroque celebrated the new year with style, panache, and just plain fun.”
Sunday, February 12 • 4:00 pm Heinrich Biber Biber's Mystery (or Rosary) Sonatas rank, along with Bach's unaccompanied violin music, among the most challenging works in the Baroque violin repertoire, and his experimentation with the instrument is unique, even to this day. Each sonata depicts one of the mysteries of the rosary, and each sonata has the violin strings tuned to different notes to change the resonance of the instrument. The Sonatas are rarely played as a set, but, when heard that way, they take us on a remarkable journey. Christina Day Martinson gives a tour de force performance of this rare, virtuosic, and astonishingly beautiful music. Christina Day Martinson, violin
MOZART & THE LEVINS W.A. Mozart Two of the world’s pre-eminent fortepianists, husband and wife Robert Levin and Ya-Fei Chuang, join us in Mozart's youthful and delightful Concerto for Two Pianos. And Martin Pearlman conducts the band in two brilliant Mozart symphonies, No. 29 and No. 36 (“Linz”).
GLUCK Love triumphs, as the poet Orpheus defies the fires of Hades to bring his beloved wife Eurydice back from the dead. With breathtaking music and colorful orchestration, Gluck’s revolutionary setting of this iconic story of love and loss influenced opera composers from Mozart to Wagner. Owen Willetts, Orfeo Semi-staged and sung in the original Italian version with English supertitles. “This superb production is cause for celebration.... Martin Pearlman leads his Boston Baroque and its excellent chorus in a fluid, beautifully theatrical performance.” “Pearlman is a Gluckian through and through.” Friday October 21 • 8:00 pm Haydn Haydn’s crowning achievement, The Creation, has been astonishing audiences since its premiere in 1798. It remains one of the greatest works of the choral repertoire, from the opening depiction of chaos through the creation of a new world. Our three soloists—a dream cast—are perfectly matched to this masterpiece. Following the concerts, Boston Baroque will record The Creation—our 21st compact disc in international commercial release. Amanda Forsythe, soprano “Boston Baroque performed [Haydn’s Creation] with vibrant color and a fleet momentum…and made it a vivid, effervescent occasion.” Friday, December 9 • 7:30 pm Boston’s Grammy-nominated Ava Pine, soprano “The history of recording has not seen a more beautifully styled or elegantly sung Messiah than this one…brilliantly focused and flooded with light.” “The chorus was a wonder, combining ethereal purity of tone with expressive fervor.” Purchase Subscriptions & Mystery Sonatas TicketsGreat Subscription Choices • Mostly Fridays • Mostly Saturdays Subscribers Enjoy Subscribe by Phone & Fax at 617.987.8600
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