PROGRAMME INFORMATION

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​The beginning of the 17th Century signalled the evolution in Northern Italy of what we now call ‘baroque’ music, introduced by vocal composers such as Monteverdi and Caccini, who referred to the new style as Le Nuove Musiche, or Stile Moderno, a new way of writing music with a simpler structure that expressed musical emotion more directly. It was also the dawn of virtuoso music for a single instrument, such as the violin (accompanied by a bass line), or the harpsichord on its own. Over the alps, Austrian composers such as Biber, Schmelzer and Froberger adopted and adapted this new style.

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$25 adult, $20 seniors and students

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PROGRAMME

 

Dario Castello (1602 – c. 1631)

Sonata Prima a sopran solo for violin and basso continuo

from: Sonate concertate in stil moderno, libro secondo (1629)

 

Tarquinio Merula (1595-1665)

Capriccio Cromatico

                               

Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583 – 1643)

Toccata per Spinettina e Violino (1628)                            

Partite 12 sopra Ruggiero

               

Marco Uccellini  (ca. 1603 – 1680)

Sonata seconda ‘detta la Luciminia Contenta’  for violin and basso continuo

from: Sonate, Correnti e Arie da camera e da chiesa a 1, 2 e 3, Op. 4 (1645)

               

intermission

 

Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667)           

Toccata in a minor

 

Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1620 - 1680)   

Sonata Quarta for violin and basso continuo, 

from: Sonatae Unarum Fidium (1664)

 

Froberger            

Suite XXX in a minor: 

 - ‘Plainte Faite À Londres Pour Passer La Melancholic, Laquelle Se Joue Lentement Avec Discretion’

 - Courante

- Sarabande

- Gigue

                                                                               

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644 – 1704)             [6’]

Sonata ‘The Annunciation’  for violin and basso continuo

from: Rosenkranz Sonaten (Salzburg, 1670 - 1675?)