The Art of Counterpoint: Bach and Zelenka
A program demonstrating the richness of contrapuntal invention from the two great High Baroque masters. Working in close proximity to each other--Leipzig and Dresden, the capital of Saxony just 100km distance--Bach and Zelenka knew and admired each other. From their distinctive personalities they each developed equally intricate and dazzlingly virtuosic styles of counterpoint.
Jan Dismas Zelenka, Sonata I (ZWV 181/1)
Zelenka, Vide, Domine, cantilena circularis (ZWV 179)
Johann Sebastian Bach, Contrapunctus I from The Art of Fugue (BWV 1080)
Bach, Fugue in g minor (from Fantasy and Fugue for organ, BWV 542)
INTERMISSION
Bach, Aria from Schleicht, spielende Wellen BWV 206/7
Bach, Prelude and Fugue in C major, WTC, book 1
Bach, Canon a 2 super thema regium
Bach, Three-Part Ricercar from The Musical Offering (BWV 1079)
Zelenka, Sonata IV, 2 oboes, bassoon, continuo (ZWV 181/4)
J.S. Bach, The Musical Offering
Dirck Hals, Banquet Scene in a Renaissance Hall
Kleine Kammermusik plays Kleine Kammermusik
Philidor, March
Couperin, La Steinquerque
Purcell, Suite from Fairy Queen
G.F. Handel, Keyboard suite
Handel, Trio Sonata in C minor
Telemann, Suite in B-flat from Kleine Kammermusik
Telemann, Bassoon Sonata in F minor
Fasch, Trio Sonata in G Minor
Woods and Brooks: Horticulture and Musical Trans-Atlantic Connections
Telemann, Suite in g minor from Der Getreue Musikmesiter
Telemann, Bassoon Sonata in F minor
Platti, Trio for oboe and cello with BC
Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Cello Sonata
Bach, Sonata for oboe d’amore and obbligato keyboard (after BWV 1028)
Boismortier, Trio for oboe, bassoon and BC
Wooded landscape, German, 1665
Antonio Giovanni Canaletto, Dresden Seen from the Right Banks of the River Elbe below the Augustus Bridge
From Dresden to Paris
Trio Sonatas by Jan Dismas Zelenka
Selections from the Livre en symphonie of Louis-Antoine Dornel
François Couperin, Concerts Royeaux
Presented at the 2014 Conference of the International Double Reed Society, New York, NY
Fanfare and Filigree
Zelenka, Trio Sonata
Fasch, Trio Sonata in G minor
Couperin, La Steinquerque
Dornel, Suite III from Livre de Symphonies (1709)
French Suite (featuring works by Couperin, Philador, Marais, and Dornel)
Antoine Watteau, Limbarco per Citera
Peter Paul Rubens, Minerva Protects Pax from Mars (Peace and War)
In War and Peace
Music from the battlefield and peaceful victory
Couperin, La Steinquerque
Dornel, La Triomphante
Fux, Sonata
Marches from the Philidor Manuscript
Handel, Favorite tunes from Watermusic and Royal Fireworks MusicLully, Trios
Destouches, Trios pour le Souper du Roy
Montéclair, La Paix
Italian Virtuosity at Home and Abroad
Vivaldi, Trio for two oboes and basso continuo
Vivaldi, Trio for oboe, recorder, and basso continuo
Geminiani, Oboe Sonata
Roman, Trio for two oboes and basso continuo
Handel, Trio for oboe, recorder, and basso continuo
Califano, Trio with obbligato bassoon
Antonio Giovanni Canaletto, The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice (c. 1730)
Louis-Roland Trinquesse, Conversation Musicale
Conversations Galantes
Trios for oboe, bassoon, and basso continuo
Boismortier, Sonata for oboe and obbligato harpsichord
Platti, Trio for oboe, cello, and basso continuo
Bach, Sonata in E flat (BWV 1031)
Telemann, Sonata in F minor for bassoon and continuo
W.F. Bach, Concerto for harpsichord
Corrette, Les Delices de la solitude
C.H. Graun, Trio for oboe, recorder, and basso continuo
From Stage to Salon: Transcriptions of Baroque Opera
Handel, Sinfonias and Arias in contemporary arrangements
Handel, Harpsichord solos arranged by Babell
Lully, Trio arrangements of operatic excerpts
Lully, Passacaille from Armide
Saint-Aubin, Lully's "Armide" performed at the Palais-Royal, 1761