Tuesday, September 15
New Esterházy Quartet
The New Esterházy Quartet plays a house concert to support their recording of Schubert’s last quartet, the hour-long Quartet in G major, D. 887. Street parking is available, refreshments will be served.
8 PM
Studio Haba na Haba
1936 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Berkeley (between The Arlington and San Fernando).
Suggested donation $25
Seating is limited. Reservations strongly recommended.
510-524-2701 or [email protected]
Friday, September 18
Dominic Schaner. lute, theorbo, and guitar
“Heresy of the Free Spirit,” a program featuring music of three centuries on as many instruments: polyphonic intabulations and improvisational works for lute by il divino Francesco Canova da Milano (1497–1543); theorbo préludes and toccatas non mesuré by Bellerofonte Castaldi (1580–1649) and Robert de Visée (1650–1725); and untempered minimalist expansions and motivic improvisations for guitar aver codes avallées by Dominic Schaner (b. 1985)
7:30 PM
Many Rivers Books & Tea
130 South Main Street, Sebastopol
Suggested donation $10–$15
A CD, also entitled Heresy of the Free Spirit, will be available for purchase.
Information: dominic-schaner.bandcamp.com, manyriversbooks.com
MUSA
“MUSA plays Bach’s Brandenburgs” Resonance @ First Church Berkeley presents one of the Bay Area’s up-and-coming early music ensembles, performing the third, fifth and sixth of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, as well as a flute, violin and cello concerto by Georg Philipp Telemann.
7:30 PM
First Congregational Church of Berkeley, Sanctuary
2345 Channing Way, Berkeley
$25/$20/$15
Tickets sold at musa.brownpapertickets.com and at the door
510-848-3696, www.fccb.org/resonance and www.musasfbaroque.com
Saturday, September 19
Prescott Lectures
“The Glories of Renaissance and Baroque Keyboard Music” John Prescott, Ph.D., presents a series of talks on the development of keyboard music from its beginnings in late Renaissance Italy, England, and Spain, through the baroque, to the era of Haydn and Mozart. Day 2. Keyboard music in the German speaking world—from the methodical counterpoint of the south Germans, to the wild extemporaneous style of their northern cousins. The German music for organ and harpsichord of the early baroque culminated in the hundreds of keyboard masterpieces of J.S. Bach. Read more . . .
1–3:30 PM
St. Mary Magdalen Church
2005 Berryman St., Berkeley
$25 per session ($20 SFEMS members), $100/$85 full course
[email protected]
Sunday, September 20
St. Peter’s Anglican Church
Bach Vespers with Jonathan Dimmock and Juliana Snapper. Jonathan Dimmock, co-founder of the American Bach Soloists and organist for the San Francisco Symphony, returns to St. Peter’s to direct a Bach Vesper Service. Works include: Bach Cantata 199, Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, with soprano soloist Juliana Snapper, an ensemble of period instruments, and congregational singing. Additionally, Mr. Dimmock will play a number of solo Bach organ works.
5 PM
St. Peter’s Anglican Church
6013 Lawton (corner of Broadway), Oakland
Free parking. Also walking distance (.5 mile, 9 minutes) from Rockridge BART.
Tickets in advance $18–$23 from Brown Paper Tickets , or $28 at the door.
Information: [email protected]
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