Tuesday, February 3
Sacramento Recorder Society
Regular meeting for recorder players, with guest conductor Joyce Johnson Hamilton. Newcomers welcome. Bring recorders, stand, and other early instruments. Music provided. Refreshments.
6:45–9:30 PM
Friends Meeting House
890 57th St., between H and J, Sacramento.
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Wednesday, February 4
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan, Conductor
“The Cousins Bach: Trauermusik and more” Discover jubilant music by two members of the illustrious Bach family: Johann Ludwig and Johann Christoph, both cousins of Johann Sebastian. Johann Ludwig Bach’s Trauermusik (“Mourning Music”), a setting of text from the Book of Psalms, is full of brisk cadences, soaring recitative, and tender vocal melodies. Also on the program, Johann Christoph Bach’s
Cantata Herr, wende dich und sei mir gnädig, and Georg Philipp Telemann’s
Sinfonia from Schwanengesang. With soloists Sherezade Panthaki, soprano;
Clifton Massey, countertenor;
Brian Thorsett, tenor;
Jeffrey Fields, baritone; and the
Philharmonia Chorale, Bruce Lamott, Director. Prelude lecture 45 minutes before every concert.
7:30 PM
First United Methodist Church
625 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto
$25–$100
Tickets, 415-392-4400
Thursday, February 5
Fantastic Five Baroque Flutes
Come get your Louis the 15th on. Janet See, Stephen Schultz and Mindy Rosenfeld, with special guest flutists Lars Johannesson and Alissa Roedig, plus William Skeen on cello perform works for five flutes by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier. Boismortier was the first composer in history to write for the unique combination of five solo baroque flutes. The program also includes the popular London Trios by Joseph Haydn written in 1794. This concert will feature the entire flute section of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Period costumes welcome and encouraged.
8 PM
Rhythmix Cultural Works
2513 Blanding Avenue, Alameda
$15/Students, $20/General admission
www.rhythmix.org, 510-865-5060
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Faculty Artist Series. Ian Swensen; violin Elisabeth Reed, cello; and Kenneth Slowik, fortepiano, perform piano trios of Franz Joseph Haydn. Program includes Trio in G Minor, Hob. XV:1; Trio in G Major, Hob. XV:25; Trio in D Minor, Hob. XV:23; and Trio in E-flat Major, Hob. XV:29.
8 PM
Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
50 Oak St., San Francisco.
Free, no tickets required
415-621-7900
Friday, February 6
East Bay Chapter, ARS
Monthly playing session with guest conductor Frances Blaker. New members and guests welcome.
7:30–10 PM
Zion Lutheran Church
5201 Park Blvd., Oakland.
www.symbolicsolutions.com/ebrs/
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan, Conductor
“The Cousins Bach: Trauermusik and more” Discover jubilant music by two members of the illustrious Bach family: Johann Ludwig and Johann Christoph, both cousins of Johann Sebastian. Johann Ludwig Bach’s Trauermusik (“Mourning Music”), a setting of text from the Book of Psalms, is full of brisk cadences, soaring recitative, and tender vocal melodies. Also on the program, Johann Christoph Bach’s
Cantata Herr, wende dich und sei mir gnädig, and Georg Philipp Telemann’s
Sinfonia from Schwanengesang. With soloists Sherezade Panthaki, soprano;
Clifton Massey, countertenor;
Brian Thorsett, tenor;
Jeffrey Fields, baritone; and the
Philharmonia Chorale, Bruce Lamott, Director. Prelude lecture 45 minutes before every concert.
8 PM
Calvary Presbyterian Church
2515 Fillmore St. (at Jackson), San Francisco
$25–$100
Tickets, 415-392-4400
Saturday, February 7
Jarring Sounds
“A Prelude to Valentine’s Day” Lutenist Adam Cockerham and mezzo-soprano Danielle Reutter-Harrah perform this concert of music across the ages for music lovers, and lovers of all kinds, as a prelude to Valentine’s Day including “Speak Love,” a song cycle by Frank Wallace, based on the texts of a 1911 San Francisco poetry collection.
7:30 PM
Seventh Avenue Presbyterian Church
1329 Seventh Avenue, San Francisco
$20/$15
Tickets
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan, Conductor
“The Cousins Bach: Trauermusik and more” Discover jubilant music by two members of the illustrious Bach family: Johann Ludwig and Johann Christoph, both cousins of Johann Sebastian. Johann Ludwig Bach’s Trauermusik (“Mourning Music”), a setting of text from the Book of Psalms, is full of brisk cadences, soaring recitative, and tender vocal melodies. Also on the program, Johann Christoph Bach’s
Cantata Herr, wende dich und sei mir gnädig, and Georg Philipp Telemann’s
Sinfonia from Schwanengesang. With soloists Sherezade Panthaki, soprano;
Clifton Massey, countertenor;
Brian Thorsett, tenor;
Jeffrey Fields, baritone; and the
Philharmonia Chorale, Bruce Lamott, Director.
8 PM
First Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way (entrance on Dana near Durant), Berkeley
$25–$100
Tickets, 415-392-4400
Santa Cruz Baroque Festival
“Celtic Bharócach (Celtic Baroque)” SCBF’s 42nd Season, “Treasures From The Birth Of The Baroque,” opens with a performance by Irish virtuosa Marja Gaynor, baroque violin & viola (Festival debut); with Nina Treadwell, theorbo, archlute, baroque guitar, lute & tambourine; and Linda Burman-Hall, early keyboards & percussion. Exotic songs and dances from the birth of the baroque—an exploration of tonal space by composers from the age of Galileo onward, accompanied by deep space progressions on the UCSC Center Recital Hall wide screen. Astronomer William Mathews introduces the concert. A meet-the-artists reception for subscribers and donors follows.
7:30 PM
UC Santa Cruz Recital Hall
Meyer Drive, UCSC Campus, Santa Cruz
$23/$17/$6/$3 ($3 parking charge)
Tickets, 831-457-9693 or www.scbaroque.org
Sunday, February 8
The Whole Noyse
“The World As It Was – Renaissance Music from the Continent” program features a wide range of music for early brass and woodwind instruments, from early to late Renaissance. The Whole Noyse will play sacred and secular music on slide trumpet, shawm, cornett, sackbut, curtal, gittern and recorders. The music comes from countries all over the European continent, including Italy, France, Spain and Germany and Flanders and will range from the very popular to the obscure. Hear about their instruments in detail and enjoy a “close-up” look at them as well.
4 PM
St. Bede’s Episcopal Church
2650 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park
$15 general/$10 senior/$5 student
Tickets at the door. Info: [email protected].
Amy Michele White, voice; Dominic Schaner, (arch)lute & modal vihuela/guitar
“Heresy of the Free Spirit” seeks to divine the improvisatory and unbound (or free) nature of early music in light of the mystical tradition from which the program takes its title. Similar to the writings of Marguerite Porete and Meister Eckhart, the music presented here may glimpse poetry and mysticism in fleeting and free spirited improvisation. “Heresy of the Free Spirit” explores long and free form pieces, drones and non-retrogradable patterns, improvisational works for lutes, new music composed in a minimalist style influenced by 16th- and 17th-c. practices, 13th-c. Cantigas de Santa Maria and 17th-c. airs de cour.
4:30 PM
California Jazz Conservatory
2087 Addison St, Berkeley
$15
510-845-5373 or [email protected].
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan, Conductor
“The Cousins Bach: Trauermusik and more” Discover jubilant music by two members of the illustrious Bach family: Johann Ludwig and Johann Christoph, both cousins of Johann Sebastian. Johann Ludwig Bach’s Trauermusik (“Mourning Music”), a setting of text from the Book of Psalms, is full of brisk cadences, soaring recitative, and tender vocal melodies. Also on the program, Johann Christoph Bach’s
Cantata Herr, wende dich und sei mir gnädig, and Georg Philipp Telemann’s
Sinfonia from Schwanengesang. With soloists Sherezade Panthaki, soprano;
Clifton Massey, countertenor;
Brian Thorsett, tenor;
Jeffrey Fields, baritone; and the
Philharmonia Chorale, Bruce Lamott, Director.
7:30 PM
First Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way (entrance on Dana near Durant), Berkeley
$25–$100
Tickets, 415-392-4400
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