Musicians of the Old Post Road: Fire – Blazing Italian Baroque
In person: $55 ($50 senior, $35 ages 34-; ages 17- free w/ adult) |
Stream: $35-$70 ($10 student)
- Suzanne Stumpf, traverso
- Daniel Ryan, baroque cello
- Sarah Darling, baroque violin
Antonio Vivaldi — Trio Sonata in D minor, Op. 1, No. 12, RV 63 "La Follia"
Alessandro Scarlatti — Selected works (concerto TBA)
Pietro Locatelli — Selected works (sinfonia TBA)
Anna Bon — Six Flute Sonatas (selection TBA)
Experience Baroque pyrotechnics on full display in concerti and sonatas for flute, strings, and harpsichord, including: a flute concerto by Nardini; Vivaldi's La Follia; a concerto by Scarlatti; a sinfonia by Locatelli; and a flute sonata by Anna Bon.
This program will receive 2 performances: Saturday, March 9 at First Parish In Wayland; and Sunday, March 10 at Old South Church in Boston. Both performances will take place at 4pm Eastern. The March 9 performance will also be livestreamed online and may be viewed with purchase of a virtual ticket.
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.
https://oldpostroad.org/