2008-2009 20th Anniversary Season
Celebration! A Musical Tour
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Concerts for on a musical tour through Italy, Germany, Hungary, Austria,
Spain, Portugal, Mexico, and England.
Saturday performances start at 8 p.m. and Sunday performances at 3 p.m. Join us for a pre-concert "conversation" beginning 45 minutes prior to each performance.
October 25th & 26th
Italia con Amore!
Ensemble Electra:
Vicki Boeckman, recorder, Tekla Cunningham, violin, and Jillon Stoppels
Dupree, harpsichord
Be
wooed by the sizzling virtuosity and sensuous sounds of Seattle’s top
Baroque touring group, Ensemble
Electra, as they perform music from the land of love—works by
Vivaldi, Corelli, and Scarlatti.
This concert
should be on Valentine’s Day!
Bring along your favorite
squeeze!
Gallery Concerts celebrates the 175th Anniversary of the
Birth of Johannes Brahms—a fitting occasion to discover some of the
lesser-known gems by this musical genius and his contemporaries, all
performed with period instruments, including “The Governor’s
Chickering.”
November 15th & 16th
Brahms Girls
Ya-Li
Lee Cheng, soprano, Sarah Barratt Markovits, soprano, Sarra Sharif,
mezzo soprano, Melanie Stevens, mezzo soprano, Stacey Sunde, mezzo soprano, Nancy Zylstra, director
They all had crushes on the
handsome young Brahms, and the feeling was mutual!
Recapture the poignant musical moment when the greatest joy in
Brahms’s life was conducting his little choir of young ladies in
Hamburg.
Brahms Girls, Seattle’s brand
new
a cappella solo vocal women’s
quartet, directed by Nancy Zylstra, will enchant you with Renaissance
music, original pieces by Brahms, and lovely arrangements of German
folksongs once sung by Brahms’s lovely little ensemble.
If you like Anonymous 4,
you’ll love Brahms Girls!
November 22nd
& 23rd
At Home with Clara Schumann & Brahms
Raluca
Marinescu,
soprano, Cecilia Archuleta, violin, and Shuann Chai, Tamara Friedman,
and George Bozarth, 1867 Chickering grand piano
Welcome to a party at the Schumanns’ home, where Brahms is the favorite
guest. The musical fare
today will be intimate songs and piano pieces by Robert, Clara, and
Johannes, and Brahms’s beautiful A-major Violin Sonata, Op. 100.
A Hausmusik treat!
The Chickering Quartet:
Cecilia Archuleta, violin; Laurel Wells, viola; Page Smith, violoncello,
and Shuann Chai, 1867 Chickering grand piano
Journey to the land of rhapsodic Gypsy violinists and fiery cimbalom
players to experience the unbridled piano and chamber music of Franz
Liszt, Ernst von Dohnanyi, and Johannes Brahms.
The Chickering Quartet—last
season’s big hit—returns for their second annual Seattle concert, this
year performing Brahms’s beloved G-minor Piano Quartet (with its wild
Gypsy finale!), played on period instruments
like you’ve never heard it before.
January 17th
& 18th
Viva
Vienna!
Guest Artist Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin, Page Smith, violoncello, and
Tamara Friedman, Viennese fortepiano
Next stop—Vienna, the city of dreams on the beautiful blue Danube that
played host to all of Europe’s finest composers.
From the Esterhazy lands came Haydn, from Salzburg, Mozart, and
from far-off Bonn, Beethoven—all to join native-son Schubert in creating
a blossoming of music fully worthy of its magical environs.
Period instruments on this concert will include a 1680 Guarneri
violin and a 1795 Viennese grand piano.
March 7th
& 8th
Iberia!
Guest Artist Ellen Hargis, soprano, Margriet Tindemans, viola da gamba,
and Jillon Stoppels Dupree, harpsichord
Experience the colorful, rhythmically vibrant Baroque vocal and
instrumental music of Portugal, Spain, and Mexico, performed by guest
artist Ellen Hargis, one of the world’s foremost early music singers,
and two of Seattle’s own international stars.
April 4th
& 5th
Mr. Haydn Comes to London
Join The Classical Consort as
they journey to Haydn’s London to commemorate the Haydn-Year (200th
anniversary of his death).
Explore the impact of England’s musical haunts on the songs,
sonatas, and chamber music of Europe’s most genial composer.
A colorful 1820 Broadwood pianoforte—the same model owned by Jane
Austen—will be the featured guest at this celebration.