Musicians of the Old Post Road: Earthly Baroque
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber — Sonata violino solo representativa
John Frederick Lampe — The Cuckoo Concerto
Gregor Joseph Werner — Il Novèmbre, im Wintermonat
François Couperin — Les Papillons
François Couperin — Le Rossignol-en-amour
Jean-Philippe Rameau — Les Rappel des Oiseaux
Antonio Vivaldi — Flute Concerto in D major, RV 428, Op. 10, No. 3 "Il Gardellino" ("The Goldfinch")
Transport yourself to a world of wild wonders with a delightful program of Baroque instrumental selections inspired by the sounds of nature! On Saturday, March 12 we revive our 2015 program, Earthly Baroque, hailed as "charming," "nuanced," and "splendid" by Early Music America.
The concert includes Antonio Vivaldi’s vivid and virtuosic "Goldfinch" Concerto for flute; Heinrich Biber’s colorful Sonata representativa for violin and continuo, which imitates a smorgasbord of bird calls and other animal sounds; G.J. Werner's November Suite, which features a raging storm scene; William Williams's Sonata in Imitation of Birds; and birdsong-inspired harpsichord works by François Couperin and J.Ph. Rameau. Also featured is MOPR's original reconstruction of little-known composer J.F. Lampe’s playful Cuckoo Concerto for flute, strings, and continuo.
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About Musicians of the Old Post Road
Musicians of the Old Post Road takes its name from its acclaimed concert series that brings period instrument performances of music of the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries to beautiful historic buildings along New England's fabled Old Post Road, the first thoroughfare to connect Boston and New York City in the late 17th Century.
Winner of the 1998 Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society, Musicians of the Old Post Road has also received programming awards from Chamber Music America and the US-Mexico Fund for Culture. The ensemble has toured in Germany, Austria, and Mexico, and has appeared at festivals and on concert series in the US, including the Indianapolis Early Music Festival, the Boston Early Music Festival Concert Series, the Castle Hill Festival, the Artists Series at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, and the Connecticut Early Music Festival. The ensemble has held a residency at Dartmouth College and was featured on WCVB television's Chronicle program and 99.5 All Classical radio's Live from Fraser program.
The ensemble's discography includes seven recordings that have each been praised in the US and abroad. They include: The Virtuoso Double Bass (Titanic, 1994), Trios and Scottish Song Settings of J. N. Hummel (Meridian, 1999), Galant with an Attitude: Music of Juan and José Pla (Meridian, 2000), Quartets of Telemann and Bodinus (Meridian, 2004), Feliz Navidad: Christmas from Spain and New Spain (Meridian, 2008), and Roman Handel (Centaur, 2013). The ensemble’s 7th CD, Earthly Baroque, was released by Centaur in 2017.
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