Our 2008-2009 Season
All concerts on Friday night at 7:30 PM , unless otherwise noted (May 23)
Concert One, September 19, 2008
Louis Louis: Music from the Courts of Louis XIV and Louis XV
Join the Baroque Northwest Quartet as we perform music by composers employed
by the Sun King (Louis XIV) and his successor, Louis XV.
Music by Hotteterre, Marais, Blavet, Philidor, and others.
Concert Two, November 21, 2008
Mediterraneo II: More Music from Byzantium to Iberia
Special Guests Kane Mathis and
Ruthie Dornfeld join
the Baroque Northwest Trio (Ronnee Fullerton,
Elizabeth Brown, Gus Denhard) to play Traditional,
Renaissance, and Baroque music from Turkey, Iberia,
North Africa, and other countries.
Concert Three, March 20, 2009
The Baroque Avant-GardeJoin Kim Pineda, Ronnee Fullerton, and Gus Denhard as we explore the outer limits of baroque music, with special guest Bernard Gordillo, harpsichord. Music by Johann Philipp Kirnberger, CPE Bach, Johann Hieronymus Kapsberger, and others.
Concert Four, May 1, 2009
Broken English: Virtuoso Consort Music from Britain
Violist da gamba stand out David Morris returns to
Seattle to join the Baroque Northwest Trio. Music by Christopher
Simpson, Tobias Hume, Nicola Matteis, John Playford, and others.
Concert Five, SATURDAY, May 23, 2009
The Art of the Lute Song
Eric Mentzel, tenor, and August Denhard,
lutes, present a concert program
encompassing 250 years of the lute song repertory: from its first flowerings
in fifteenth-century France, through the Elizabethan Golden Age, to the
early Baroque experiments that would develop into opera. Composers
include Pierre Attaingnant, Franciscus Bossinensis, John Dowland, Henry
Lawes, Pierre Gudron, Giulio Caccini, Claudio Monteverdi, Henry Purcell,
and others.
