Early music festival upcoming

||| FROM JEFFREY COHEN for SALISH SEA EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL |||

“Musicks Divine Language”:  “There must be an Order and just Proportion, Intricacy with Simplicity in the Component parts, Variety in the Mass, and Light and Shadow in the whole, so as to produce the varied sensations of gaiety and melancholy, of wildness and even surprise and wonder…” (Sloane, c.1794)
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  Wednesday, February 26 at 5:00 PM in the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Chapel:
— BACH & TELEMANN: The CHACONNE with LES VOIX HUMAINES —
   · Susie Napper, viola da gamba & treble viol
   · Mélisande Corriveau, viola da gamba & pardessus de viol
   · Elisabeth Wright, harpsichord
   · Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute

The hypnotic French chaconne that developed during the reign of Louis XIV brings the listener from one emotional realm to the next in a regular procession of episodes that transition gently in some direction or leap suddenly with emotion and stark contrast, now uplifting or sad, majestic or introspective, hopeful or questioning. The pulse may feel broader, then more angular, then running with abandon or pregnant with poise, always cleverly evolving in crafting a musical story.  

Bach and Telemann succeed in bringing this chaconne to a whole new level, as we’ll experience with “Les Voix Humaines” in their very own transcription of Bach’s Chaconne in D Minor for 2 viola da gambas, originally for solo violin, and in the chaconne entitled “Modéré” from Telemann’s Paris Quartet No. 12 in E Minor for flute, pardessus de viole, viola da gamba and harpischord. Two outstanding quartets for two viola da gambas, flute and harpsichord celebrating this unusual combination of instruments will be heard alongside two additional transcriptions: for flute, pardessus de viol and harpsichord of Bach’s Organ Trio Sonata in D Minor, and for solo harpsichord of the Allemande from Bach’s D Major Suite No. 6 for solo cello.

Please check out the website for more information, and we hope to see you on Wednesday at 5 in Eastsound!