• Friday, May 10, 2024 at 7pm at Brattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro VT (tickets at bmcvt.org)

• Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 7pm at Friends Meeting House, Cambridge

• Sunday, May 12, 2024 at 3:30pm at Follen Community Church, Lexington

J.S. Bach owed part of his creative inspiration to the 17th-century’s Stylus phantasticus, a method that sought freedom of form and expression, especially in instrumental works. This program explores several composers who embraced this approach. With a flourishing send-off in the finale of our 25th anniversary year, birds of a feather include Rosenmüller, Reincken, Westhoff, Schmelzer, Scheidt, and Bach, with his sparkling harpsichord concerto in E major.

With Christina Day Martinson, Megumi Stohs Lewis, violins; Jenny Stirling, viola; Jennifer Morsches, piccolo cello; Timothy Merton, cello; Maggie Cole, harpsichord.

Program:

Sonata XI à 5 in D major (1682) - Johann Rosenmüller (1619-1684)
Imitatione delle campane Sonata No. 3 in D minor (1694) - Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656-1705)
Concerto for harpsichord and strings in E major, BWV 1053 (1738) - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Partita I in A minor from Hortus musicus (1682) - Johann Adam Reincken (1643-1722)
Sonata VIII à 5 in G major (1662) - Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (ca. 1620-1680)
Canzon super ‘O Nachbar Roland',’ SSWV 66 (1621) from Ludi musici - Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654)
Curtain tune on a Ground from Timon of Athens (1694) - Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Venues:

Brattleboro Music Center: 72 Blanche Moyse Way, Brattleboro VT 05301
Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge MA 02138
Follen Community Church: 755 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington MA 02420

Tickets for Sarasa Ensemble concerts in Brattleboro VT are available at the Brattleboro Music Center’s website, https://bmcvt.org.