1600: Winds of the Renaissance
$15-$25 suggested donation
Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde — Selected works
Andrea Cima — Selected works
Giulio Caccini — Selected works
Dario Castello — Selected works
Tarquinio Merula — Selected works
John Lenti, renaissance lute
Anna Marsh, dulcian
Jeffrey Cohan, renaissance transverse flute
The elusive dulcian, the rarely heard renaissance transverse flute and the lute will be showcased in an evening of 16th and early 17th-century chamber music.
Winds of the Renaissance may provide the first opportunity in North America in recent centuries to experience a familiar combination of instruments in the late Renaissance. The dulcian and the renaissance transverse flute offer many essential qualities that were sacrificed as the bassoon and flute evolved to suit the music of the baroque period. As you will see the modern bassoon and flute possess even less of requisite sweetness, warmth, and pinpoint flexibility that enable these period instruments to convey such powerful emotional impact in the context of Renaissance music.
The evening's program features 16th and early 17th-century chamber music for solo dulcian and transverse flute with supporting theorbo or lute by Tarquino Merula, Girolamo Frescobaldi, the dulcian virtuoso Bartolomeo de Selma y Salaverde, Andrea Cima, Dario Castello and Giulio Caccini... all exhibiting the rampant mannerism and its inherent virtuosity which spanned the turn of the 17th century.
A most unusual and unforgettable musical experience, not to be missed!
Anna Marsh, who grew up in Tacoma, is one of the premier players of the dulcian, which evolved into our modern bassoon but was softer, much sweeter and more supple. Jeffrey Cohan is one of very few flutists who regularly perform solo music for the renaissance transverse flute. The two wind players team up with renaissance lutenist John Lenti, who is constantly in motion all around the country playing lutes and guitars of all sorts, in this first program in the Salish Sea Early Music Festival's Spring Festival of three contrasting performances of renaissance, baroque and Beethoven-era chamber music.
This and all programs are to be repeated on Vashon, Orcas, Lopez, San Juan and Whidbey Islands and in Seattle, Tacoma, Bellingham and in Vancouver, BC. The 2015 Salish Sea Early Music Festival includes seven programs of 16th- to 19th-century chamber music on period instruments, with special guests from Berlin and Lübeck, Germany, and from around the Northwest and the United States and Canada. [See full calendar here.]
Admission: $15-$25 suggested donation; 18 & under free.