Chatham Baroque: A Garden of Harmony - Austrian & German Music for Strings
Friday-Sunday, September 27-29, 2024
Friday Sept 27, 7:30 p.m., Calvary Episcopal Church
Saturday Sept 28, 7:30 p.m., Teutonia Männerchor
Sunday Sept 29, 4:00 p.m., Calvary Episcopal Church
The virtuosic compositions for string band from late 17th-century Austria and Germany sit squarely in Chatham Baroque’s programmatic wheelhouse. Written for a lush array of bowed string instruments, this music is rich with ingenious invention, counterpoint, and mellifluous harmony. Joined by some of our favorite string-playing guests, this program features rarely performed music of composers Heinrich Biber, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Antonio Bertali, Johann Hermann Schein, Johann Casper Ferdinand Fischer, and Georg Muffat.
Andrew Fouts violin
Patricia Halverson viola da gamba
Scott Pauley theorbo & baroque guitar
With guest artists:
Carmen Johnson-Pajaro violin
Paul Miller viola
Keats Dieffenbach voila
Justin Wallace keyboard