A painting of a man watching birds looking at music in a room.

Lands of the Free: Languages of Improvisation

August 14th-15th and 20th-25th, 2024

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2023-24 Season Tickets can be used for this Signature Concert

Notated music has always contained a degree of interpretation and improvisation; in the 17th and early 18th centuries, this improvisation played many roles. Sometimes it was decorative ornamentation around written notes, or completely new pieces generated by improvising upon a common bass line. Other times, it was a way of establishing a key or connecting more structured episodes to each other. Styles of improvising differed as much as their nation’s languages, and this program explores the ways the lively, charming, and surprising ways they coexisted and influenced each other.

 

Artists

Carrie Krause, baroque violin
Manami Mizumoto, baroque violin
Phoebe Carrai, baroque cello
John Lenti, theorbo

Program

Johann Caspar Kerll (1627-1693)
Sonata a 2 violins in F

Diego Ortiz (1510-1570)
Recercarda Primera

Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704)
Sonata Settima in A minor, 1693

Giovannie Battista Fontana (1589-1630)
Sonata for 2 violins and bass

Michel Pignolet de Monteclair (1667-1737)
Duet pour 2 dessus sans basse

Nicola Matteis (1650ca-1714)
Suite in F
Passagio Roto a solo violin

Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
Musikalische Ergötzung no. 4 in E minor

Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Op 4 No 10 G major