April 2009

April 2009

April 1
Baber, Weaver, Smith & Herreid
Music from the Time of Castiglione

Elizabeth Baber (soprano), Priscilla Smith (winds), Charles Weaver and Grant Herreid (lutes) will perform a program showcasing the frottola: a light, dance-like song which was the most popular form in Italy in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, and the perfect vehicle for a noble person to show sprezzatura, that combination of spontaneity, skill and elegance described by Castiglione in his Book of the Courtier (1528).

April 8
The Grenser Trio
Mistaken for Mozart: Music of Anton Eberl

The public mistook his first piano sonata for Mozart’s last and thought his symphonies equal to Beethoven’s: Anton Eberl is spotlighted in this performance of his Trio in E-flat major, op. 36. The Grenser Trio is Ed Matthew, classical clarinet; Carlene Stober, cello; and Dongsok Shin, fortepiano.

April 15
Brooklyn Baroque
"To the Nines"

Brooklyn Baroque (Andrew Bolotowsky, baroque flute; David Bakamjian, baroque cello; Rebecca Pechefsky, harpsichord) present a program of anniversary music by important Baroque composers celebrating milestones in 2009, including G. F. Handel, Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, and F. X. Richter.

April 22
New York Continuo Collective
Spring Workshop Performance

The singers and instrumentalists of the New York Continuo Collective, an ongoing workshop dedicated to the art of continuo accompaniment in the early baroque, will perform selections from their spring project on 17th-c. Roman composers and the theme of vanitas, or the transience of all earthly delights.

April 29
Kupfer, Stober & Knijff
Music of Couperin and Bach

Peter Kupfer (baroque violin), Carlene Stober (viola da gamba) and Jan-Piet Knijff (harpsichord) juxtapose J. S. Bach’s First Trio Sonata with François Couperin’s Second Concert Royal.

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