Lenape Chamber Ensemble’s Baroque Fest, elegant works by the most celebrated composers of the Baroque era, takes place Nov. 11 and 13.
The Friday evening concert at 8:15 p.m. is at Upper Black Eddy’s historic Upper Tinicum Lutheran Church. The concert is repeated on Sunday at 3 p.m. at Delaware Valley University’s Life Sciences Auditorium in Doylestown.
The program opens with “Spring” and “Summer” from Antonio Vivaldi’s beloved “Four Seasons,” the most famous part of a collection of 12 concertos he wrote in dedication to Count Vinceslao Morzin. Each of the four seasons reflects the mood of spring, summer, fall and winter, and is described in a sonnet which appears in the musical score and will be re-printed in the programs handed to the audience.
The musicians appearing in this concert are no strangers to Baroque music. Performing as solo violinist in Vivaldi’s “Spring” and “Summer” concertos will be Cyrus Beroukhim, heralded for his performances of Bach and Vivaldi concerti with the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields.
The baroque group includes violinists Katie Hyun of the Trinity Baroque Orchestra and Elizabeth Pitcairn, soloist and director of the Luzerne Music Center in upstate New York; violist William Hakim of the New York Symphonic Ensemble; cellist Alberto Parrini, a member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; and bassist Motomi Igarashi, an intensive performer of baroque style on period musical instruments.
Harpsichordist Lionel Party has played solo recitals internationally and at New York’s major concert halls, and as soloist and resident harpsichordist with the New York Philharmonic.
Hyun is violin soloist in Jean-Marie Leclair’s “Concerto Op. 7, No. 5 for Violin, Strings and Continuo,” one of seven dedicated to Locatelli, who was the foremost violinist of that era. Leclair himself was a traveling violin virtuoso, and his music shows both Italian and French influences.
Bach’s unique piece for solo harpsichord, the “Concerto in the Italian Style,” also known as the “Italian Concerto,” was one of two compositions, one French, one English style, written for solo harpsichord as opposed to pieces traditionally written for soloist with orchestra. Party will perform the Allegro movement.
The program concludes with “Fall” and “Winter,” the last two of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons,” and will feature Pitcairn as violin soloist.
Tickets at $20 for adults, $15 for seniors and students at the door or at 610-294-9361.
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