2024 Salish Sea Early Music Festival ~
Period Instrument chamber music from six centuries
around the Salish Sea ~ Please
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✣MARCH
19 - March 25, 2024 around the Salish
Sea ✣
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FRANZ
JOSEPH HAYDN
TRIOS
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
8-keyed flute ~
Lindsey
Strand-Polyak
~
baroque
violin ~
Martin
Bonham
~
baroque cello ~
Franz
Joseph Haydn
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart
Franz
Anton Hoffmeister
François
Devienne
As the most celebrated composer in all
of Europe for much of his career, Franz
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was Mozart’s
mentor and friend as well as Beethoven’s
tutor. The program will include three
trios for flute, violin and cello by
Haydn, selections from a 1795
arrangement for these instruments of
Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute”, and a
trio by Franz Anton Hoffmeister, a
friend of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven
who published music by all three.
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Earlier concerts this season
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✣JANUARY 19 -
26, 2024 around the Salish Sea ✣
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THREE
CENTURIES:
GUITAR,
THEORBO & FLUTE
Michael
Freimuth
~
renaissance guitar & theorbo ~
Jeffrey Cohan
~
renaissance & baroque flutes ~
16th
Century
Diego
Ortiz • William Byrd
Giovanni
Bassano
Girolamo
Dalla Casa
17th
Century
Giovanni
Paulo Cima
Girolamo
Frescobaldi
Giovanni
Battista Fontana
Giovanni
Battista Buonamenti
Bartolomé
de Selma y Salaverde
18th
Century
Arcangelo
Corelli
• André Chéron
Robert
de Visée
Join
us for the opening 2024 Salish Sea Early
Music Festival and an unusual and expansive
journey through the music for guitar, lute
and flute of the 16th, 17th and 18th
centuries, including elaborate jazzed-up
versions of well known songs of the time,
published by the incredible wind instrument
virtuosi of the late 16th century, along
with canzonas, sonatas and suites from
Spain, Italy, England and France. The
instruments include the renaissance guitar,
which is considerably smaller and more
mellow-toned than its modern descendant,
theorbo (an extremely long-necked lute), the
one-piece cylindrical renaissance flute
along with the bass renaissance flute, and
the one-keyed baroque flute.
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✣FEBRUARY
12 - 19, 2024 around the Salish
Sea ✣
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SIMPHONIE
NOUVELLE:
LOUIS
XIV & J.S. BACH
Stephen
Stubbs
~ baroque
guitar ~
Susie
Napper
~
viola da gamba ~
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
baroque flute ~
guitarists
Diego
Francesco Corbetta (1615-1681) Robert
De Visée (c.1655-1733) viola
da gambists
Monsieur
de Sainte Colombe (c.1640-c.1700) Marin
Marais (1656-1728) Jacques
Morel (c.1680-c.1740) flutist
Michel
de la Barre (c.1675-1745) composers
Élisabeth
Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729)
François Couperin (1668-1733) Johann
Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Louis
XIV gathered the finest musicians of France at
his court in Versailles and this program
features many of the late 17th and early
18th-century guitarists, viola da gambists,
flutists and other composers associated with his
illustrious musical establishment, alongside the
Sonata in E Minor, BWV 1034 of Johann Sebastian
Bach.
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✣FEBRUARY
22 - March 3, 2024 around the Salish
Sea ✣
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GEORG
PHILIPP TELEMANN:
PARIS QUARTETS
David
Greenberg
~
baroque
violin ~
Elisabeth
Wright
~
harpsichord ~
Susie
Napper
~
viola da gamba ~
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
baroque flute ~
Quadri
a violino, flauto traversiere, viola da
gamba
o violoncello, e fondamento (1730):
Concerto
II in D Major
Sonata
II in G Minor
Nouveaux
quatuors en six suites (1738):
Premier
Quatuor in D Major 4e.
Quatuor in B Minor
Having been invited by several
of the most prominent French
musicians to visit Paris,
Telemann composed and published
the first set of his remarkable
"Paris Quartets" in 1730, and
left Hamburg for Paris seven
years later, where all 12 of the
quartets were performed, almost
surely with Teleman himself on
the harpsichord. The second set
of quartets was published in
Paris during this visit in 1738.
Two years later Telemann related
the following:
"The admirable performances of
these quartets by Messrs Blavet
(transverse flute), Guignon
(violin), the younger Forcroy
[i.e. Forqueray] (viola da
gamba) and Edouard (cello) would
be worth describing were it
possible for words to be found
to do them justice. In short,
they won the attention of the
ears of the court and the town,
and procured for me in a very
little time an almost universal
renown and increased esteem."
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ONLINE
PERFORMANCES • • • — To be
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CANZONAS Trios,
Duos
and Solos Anna
Marsh
~ dulcian (renaissance bassoon)
John Lenti ~ theorbo
Jeffrey Cohan ~ renaissance flute
Yes,
still to come! ...an unusual and
extensive exploration of the
fabric of early 17th-century music
in Italy (mostly) through the
perspective of the
players of dulcian,
renaissance transverse flute, theorbo
and renaissance lute.
The
program includes a solo lute Fantasia
by Giovanni
Battista
Dalla Gostena (1540-1593),
a Canzona (1636) by Giovanni
Battista
Buonamente (c1595–1642), a
Sonata as well as Cantantibus
organis by Giovanni
Paolo Cima (c1570–1630)
from his Concerti Ecclesiastici
(Milan 1610), five wonderful
canzonas by Tarquinio
Merula (1594/5-1665) from
his Opus 12 (1637) and Opus 17
(1651), a Fantasia for
dulcian solo as well as divisions on
Vestiva e colli for flute
and dulcian, both published in 1638
by Bartolomé
de Selma y Salaverde
(~1595-1638), diminutions
byGirolamo
Dalla Casaon
Petit Jacquet after the
chanson by jean Courtois
for flute and lute, aSonata Concertante by Dario
Castello(1602-1631)
from 1631, and two duos for flute
and dulcian: Beaux yeux by
Jan
Pieterszoon Sweelinck
(1562-1621) and a setting of Le
rossignol plaisant & gratieux
by Didier
le blanc.
Fantasia
11 by Giovanni Bassano (1585)
January 11, 2021
Fantasia
3 (1585) by Giovanni Bassano
December 29, 2020
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for each location. ~
updated March 13, 2024 ~ Suggested Donation for all
concerts:
$20 to $30
(a free will offering - everyone is most welcome)
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