Musicians of the Old Post Road: Taking Inspiration
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- Suzanne Stumpf, traverso
- Daniel Ryan, baroque cello
- Sarah Darling, baroque violin
- Jesse Irons, baroque violin
- Marcia Cassidy, baroque viola
- Andrus Madsen, harpsichord
- Vincent Canciello, traverso
George Frideric Handel — Adagio and Allegro for flute and strings, HWV 338
Reinhard Keiser — Octavia (selected aria)
George Frideric Handel — Trio Sonata in B minor, Op. 2, No. 1, HWV 386b
George Frideric Handel — Overture to Joseph and his Brethren, HWV 59
Jean-Philippe Rameau — Pièce de Clavecin en Concert No. 5, RCT 11
Arcangelo Corelli — Fuga a quattro voci, Anh. 15
Domenico Scarlatti — Keyboard Sonata in G major, K. 2
George Frideric Handel — Concerto Grosso in G major, Op. 6, No. 1, HWV 319
Musicians of the Old Post Road presents Taking Inspiration, the final concert of its 2021-22 subscription series, "Reimagining, Rediscovering!" Join the ensemble on Saturday, April 30 at Harvard-Epworth Church in Cambridge and online via livestream to discover the exciting ways in which Handel reimagined music by his contemporaries in his own compositions. As the saying goes, "Imitation is the greatest form of flattery." Whether subliminal or intentional, Handel’s borrowing of musical ideas from works by Corelli, Telemann, Rameau, Keiser, and Scarlatti is on display in his concertos, overtures, and sonatas on this program. The ensemble will pair each work by Handel with the chamber work that served as its muse.
Listeners will hear the origins of the "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel’s Messiah in a fugue by Corelli. Also featured is a Telemann concerto for three violins that sparked Handel's lovely and lively Adagio and Allegro for flute and strings, HWV 338; and one of Rameau’s Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts for harpsichord, flute, and violin, which Handel reimagines in his overture to Joseph and his Brethren.
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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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