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Bach Solo Violin

Museum of Fine Arts Houston

Dosey Doe

It’s easy to forget now, when the music seems so familiar, that composers throughout history have been innovators, producing music that startled, confounded and even shocked audiences of their day. So it’s entirely natural that one of the “disruptors” of 21st century classical music, Mason Bates, rubs shoulders with Franz Biber, Georg Muffat, and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer in this program. Known for his compositions which bring together the worlds of orchestral music and electronics, Mason’s new work for us is sure to be an unmissable opener to these concerts.
Muffat shared Mason’s love of combining unlikely bedfellows, known for combining contrasted national musical styles. In these season-closing concerts we hear his celebratory Mass, together with a selection of rich and multi-layered Sonatas by Biber and a wrenching lament for strings and continuo by Schmelzer.

From Muffat to Mason

First Congregational Church

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

Stanford University

Artistic Partner Richard Egarr brings both dramatic flair and tenderness to works from the Baroque era. Johann Heinrich Schmelzer and Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber were pioneers of the violin and their groundbreaking music uses new techniques to depict the sounds of battle, rowdy soldiers singing at a pub and the song of a nightwatchman. Johann Sebastian Bach’s beloved Orchestral Suite No. 3 is filled with flashy brass fanfares and vigorous dances, and includes “Air on the G String,” one of his most famous melodies

Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 with Richard Egarr

St. Andrew's Lutheran Church

Temple Israel

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Kodály – Sonata for Solo Cello in B minor, Op. 8, arranged for viola by Yura Lee
Biber – Passacaglia for Solo Violin in G minor
Chopin – Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 65

October concerts - Season 33

Colburn School

Music Academy of the West

Museum of Ventura County

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

Composer

Events

28 - 29 Oct, 2023

Bach Solo Violin ·

27 - 30 Apr, 2023

From Muffat to Mason · Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale

12 - 15 Jan, 2023

Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 with Richard Egarr · Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

21 - 26 Oct, 2022

October concerts - Season 33 · Camerata Pacifica

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