Ninth Season
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Newsletter September–October 2010 |
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The Dresden Orchestra music for baroque Europe’s most brilliant ensemble
Join Tempesta di Mare on October 2 and 3 for the opening of the ninth season of our Philadelphia Concert Series. The Dresden Orchestra features music composed for and first performed by the most celebrated musical ensemble of the German High Baroque, the Dresden Hofkapelle. Tempesta celebrates the big-band Dresden sound with a full 25-piece orchestra of brass, woodwinds, strings, lute and harpsichord. The program features Vivaldi’s Concerto “for the Dresden Orchestra,” with virtuosic solos for pairs of violins, recorders, oboes and bassoons, a daring Capriccio by Dresden composer Jan Dismas Zelenka for horns, oboes, bassoon and strings, a lute concerto written by and for Dresden’s highest-paid instrumentalist, lutenist Silvius Leopold Weiss, Hasse’s extravagant overture to his Dresden opera Lucio Papirio, and a tour-de-force of a concerto for solo violin, brass, woodwinds and strings by Johann Friedrich Fasch. Employed at the smaller court of Anhalt-Zerbst, Bach-contemporary Johann Friedrich Fasch dreamed big and sent his largest-scale orchestral works—including this one—to his colleagues in Dresden for performance there by the Hofkapelle orchestra with concertmaster Johann Georg Pisendel soloing. All three orchestral programs on Tempesta di Mare’s series this year will include one or more of Fasch’s works that the prestigious British recording company Chandos will record live-in-concert for release on its Chaconne label after the end of the season. This recording project has been made possible in part with a grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Music Project. |
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TEMPESTA DI MARE: CONCERT SEASON 2010-2011
Fasch: Violin Concerto in D, FWV L:D52 François Couperin: La Françoise (sonade) Scarlatti: Bella dama di nome “Santa” Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C, BWV 1066 Telemann: Ino
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PREVIEW
2010–2011 Series — Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra Tempesta di Mare’s ninth concert season starts in just a few weeks’ time, filled with orchestral and chamber music concerts, pre-concert talks, an international tour and live-in-concert recording. We’ll have ten series performances in the Philadelphia area with an expanded orchestra, modern premieres, special guests, a new Old City performance venue and two of Philadelphia’s hottest sopranos. Tickets and Information: $25 General, $35 Preferred, $10 College, $20 Senior, children grades 3-12 free. Season Pass $145, College Pass $40. Buy tickets at tempestadimare.org, call 215-755-8776 or email info@tempestadimare.org GREATER PHILADELPHIA Tempesta’s ninth season opens on October 2 & 3 with The Dresden Orchestra. The program features works by Vivaldi, Fasch, Hasse, Zelenka and Weiss, all composed for and originally performed by the most celebrated musical ensemble of the High Baroque, the Dresden Hofkapelle. Tempesta will perform with a full orchestra of brass, woodwinds, strings, lute and harpsichord. On December 10 & 11, the Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players performs The Royal Concert, instrumental music for the King of France composed by the celebrated François Couperin. Its centerpiece will be his operatic Concert in the Theatrical Style. Viola da gamba virtuoso Sarah Cunningham is guest performer. Penn professor and cultural historian Joan DeJean, author of The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual, will give the pre-concert talks. Soprano Clara Rottsolk joins Tempesta di Mare on January 29 & 30, for Roman Nights, a program of cantatas and concertos by George Frideric Handel and Alessandro Scarlatti. The concerts will include works featured on the Tempesta’s April 2010 Chandos release, Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantatas and Chamber Music. Wendy Heller, award-winning Princeton professor and fellow of the American Academy in Rome, will give the pre-concert talks. The orchestra returns on March 26 & 27 for Characters of the Dance, featuring Bach’s balletic First Orchestral Suite paired with Jean-Féry Rebel’s actual ballet, Les Caractères de la Danse. The program also includes the modern world premiere of Fasch’s rousing Orchestral Suite in A Minor, which the group will take on tour to Germany in April 2011. Tempesta’s season concludes on May 20 & 21 with Telemann’s operatic cantata Ino, sung by soprano Laura Heimes. Written in the most up-to-date style when the composer was 84 years old, this blood-and-gut cantata tells the myth of Ino, a woman fleeing from her maddened husband before being rescued by the gods. Two more modern world premieres, an overture by Janitsch and a concerto by Fasch, will serve as preludes to the halves of the cantata. Tempesta Di Mare’s full season 2010-2011 schedule is listed below. |
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2010-2011 SEASON PASS
All five concerts
A Tempesta di Mare Season Pass is a bundle of good things rolled into one:
Get your Season Pass now for only $145! Use the order form below.
A Tempesta di Mare College Pass gives the budget-minded full-time student these benefits for just $40 (a 30% savings over buying single tickets):
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NEW CDs
A Season of All three orchestral programs on Tempesta di Mare’s series will include one or more works by Bach-contemporary Johann Friedrich Fasch that Chandos Records will record live-in-concert for release on its Chaconne label after the end of the season. Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688 1758) is now acknowledged as having one of the most distinctive musical voices of the German High Baroque, alongside Bach, Handel, Telemann and Zelenka. According to Tempesta co-director Richard Stone, “his as-yet-unperformed concerti, suites and symphonies are stunning works that rate as true modern rediscoveries.” Several of these works were personally reassembled by Stone in Dresden from original manuscripts damaged during the World War II bombings. “These works showcase Fasch’s unparalleled gift for orchestration, his highly personal style of tuneful, forward-looking writing, and his masterful pacing of large-scale forms,” comments artistic co-director Gwyn Roberts. “They are all significant, new contributions to the concert and recorded repertoire that represent the breadth of Fasch’s orchestral œuvre.” She adds that recording these pieces live “inspires us to our most exciting playing and makes our audiences an integral part of the project.” Chandos has contracted Tempesta di Mare to produce a new CD annually for worldwide commercial release on its Chaconne label. In a marketplace otherwise dominated by European groups, Tempesta di Mare is the only US baroque orchestra on the prestigious British label’s roster. The recording project has been made possible in part with a grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Music Project. |
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