October 15 and 16
TEMPESTA TURNS TEN — fanfares, suites and a birthday symphony
Saturday, October 15, 8:00
Arch Street Friends Meeting, 320 Arch Street
Sunday, October 16, 4:00
Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, 8855 Germantown Avenue, Chestnut Hill
Hear Tempesta’s grandest orchestra ever, complete with trumpets, horns and tympani! We perform Vivaldi’s famous Concerto for Four Violins on the 300th anniversary of its publication, a birthday symphony by Boyce, a ballet suite from Rameau’s Celebrations of Polyhymnia and a festive overture by Fasch in its modern premiere.
PROGRAM:
“Birthday” Symphony in A, Op 2 No 2 — William Boyce
Concerto for 4 Violins in B Minor, Op 3 No 10, from L’Estro armonico — Antonio Vivaldi
Ouverture in D, FWV K:D2* — Johann Friedrich Fasch (modern premiere)
Konzertsatz in F, FWV L:F3* — Fasch
Suite from Les Fêtes de Polymnie — Jean-Philippe Rameau
* Part of our live-in-concert, modern premiere recording for Chandos to be released in 2012.
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December 3 and 4
LEIPZIG SHORTLIST — Telemann, Fasch, Graupner or Bach?
Saturday, December 3, 8:00
Arch Street Friends Meeting, 320 Arch Street
Sunday, December 4, 4:00
Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, 8855 Germantown Avenue, Chestnut Hill
Bach, Telemann, Fasch and Graupner were all finalists for the same job in Leipzig. The post went to Bach, but Telemann’s epic twelfth Paris Quartet, dazzling lute and recorder concertos by Fasch, a bubbly suite by Graupner and Bach’s elegaic Harpsichord Concerto in F Minor make compelling cases in support of all four of these composers.
PROGRAM:
Recorder Concerto in F, FWV L:F-deest — Johann Friedrich Fasch (US premiere)*
Entrata in G, GWV 453 — Christoph Graupner (modern premiere)
Harpsichord Concerto in F Minor, BWV 1056 — Johann Sebastian Bach
Lute Concerto in D Minor, FWV L:d1 — Fasch*
“Paris” Quartet XII in E Minor, TWV 43:e4 — Georg Philipp Telemann
* Part of our live-in-concert, modern premiere recording for Chandos to be released in 2012.
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February 4 and 5
ITALIANS IN VIENNA – cantatas and concerti with Michael Maniaci
Saturday, February 4, 8:00
free pre-performance talk with Wendy Heller at 7:00
Arch Street Friends Meeting, 320 Arch Street
Sunday, February 5, 4:00
free pre-performance talk with Wendy Heller at 3:00
Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, 8855 Germantown Avenue, Chestnut Hill
Maniaci is back!
Michael Maniaci, lauded as “one of the greatest singers of his generation” (Toronto Globe and Mail), joins our chamber players for cantatas and chamber music by Italian composers imported to Vienna by the glittering and sophisticated Hapsburg court. Award-winning author and Princeton professor Wendy Heller will give the free pre-performance talks about the “italiophilia” situation in Vienna, including the unusual relationship between the Italian expats and their Austrian employers.
PROGRAM:
Concerto in C for 2 Flutes, RV 533 — Antonio Vivaldi
“Perché son molli,” RV 681 — Vivaldi
Cello Concerto in D Minor — Antonio Caldara
“Le sofferte” — Giuseppe Porsile
Trio No. 6 for 2 Flutes and Cello — Niccolo Jomelli
Sonata for 2 Violins and Bass in A — Johann Joseph Fux
La Fenice — Carlo Agostino Badia
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March 24 and 25
PARTY OF THE MUSES — a program of premieres and Tempesta firsts
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Saturday, March 24, 8:00
Arch Street Meeting House, 320 Arch Street
Sunday, March 25, 4:00
Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, 8855 Germantown Avenue, Chestnut Hill
To cap our two-year celebration of Fasch, we introduce four composers who are new to us and maybe to you, too. We present Kusser’s theatrical overture, Party of the Muses, a tour-de-force violin concerto by Locatelli, and modern premieres of a sinfonia by Endler and a concerto grosso by Stölzel, all alongside Fasch’s rip-roaring Orchestral Suite in F.
PROGRAM:
Orchestral Suite in F, FWV K:F1* — Johann Friedrich Fasch
Violin Concerto in B flat, Op 3 No 7 — Pietro Antonio Locatelli
Sinfonia in G — Johann Samuel Endler (modern premiere)
Concerto Grosso in E Minor — Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (modern premiere)
Le Festin des Muses, Suite IV — Johann Sigismund Kusser
*Part of our live-in-concert, modern-premieres recording for Chandos to be released in 2012.
Hear a sample: Johann Friedrich Fasch: Suite in F: Gavotte.
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May 12, 13, 19 and 20
OPUS 10 BAROQUE MUSIC FESTIVAL
two weekends of solo, chamber and orchestral concerts for our 10th anniversary season
We mark the completion of our first decade with our Opus 10 Baroque Music Festival, two weekends of musical 10’s: Opus 10, Number 10, BWV 1010, etc. The first weekend opens with Opus 10–Chamber, including trios and quartets by Haydn, Vivaldi and Couperin, followed by Opus 10–Solo, a round-robin recital of solo works by Bach, Weiss, Frescobaldi and others. The second weekend brings two performances of Opus 10–Orchestra, featuring one of Leclair’s jaw-dropping Opus 10 violin concertos, plus music by Handel, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, and Stanley.
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OPUS 10: CHAMBER — “Open Doors” free-admission concert.
Saturday, May 12, 8:00
Arch Street Friends Meeting, 320 Arch Street
PROGRAM:
Recorder Concerto in D, Op 10 No 3, “Il Gardellino” — Antonio Vivaldi
Sonata in F, Op 3 No 10, for two violins and continuo — Evaristo Felice dall’Abaco
Trio in A Minor, 10th sonata from Essercizii Musici, for recorder, violin and continuo — Georg Philipp Telemann
Divertimento in A, Op 100, for flute, violin and cello (Hob IV:10) — Josef Haydn
Tenth Duo in A, for two violins without bass — Jean-Marie Leclair
Concert X from Les Goûts Réunis — François Couperin
OPUS 10: SOLO
Sunday, May 13, 4:00
Arch Street Friends Meeting, 320 Arch Street
PROGRAM:
Sonata X in D Minor, for recorder and continuo — Francesco Mancini
Suite IV in E-flat, BWV 1010, for solo cello — Johann Sebastian Bach
Fantasia X in D, TWV 40:23, for solo violin — Georg Philipp Telemann
Sonata 10 in E-flat, for solo lute — Silvius Leopold Weiss
Cento Partite (100 Variations), for solo harpsichord — Girolamo Frescobaldi
Sonata in D, RV 10, for violin and continuo — Antonio Vivaldi
OPUS 10: ORCHESTRA
Saturday, May 19, 8:00
Arch Street Friends Meeting, 320 Arch Street
Sunday, May 20, 4:00
Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, 8855 Germantown Avenue, Chestnut Hill
PROGRAM:
Harpsichord Concerto in D, Op 10, No 2 — John Stanley
Recorder Concerto in F, Op 10 No 5 — Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op 10 No 5 — Jean-Marie Leclair
Sinfonia X in A Minor — Alessandro Scarlatti
Concerto Grosso in D Minor, Op 6 No 10 — George Frideric Handel
Orchestral Suite in E Minor, TWV 55:e10 — Georg Philipp Telemann
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