Sarasa Chamber Music Ensemble: Past Season 2006-2007

Mozart and His Fortepiano

Piano Quartet in E flat, Trio in G KV 496, Fortepiano, Variations on "Ah, vous dirai-je Maman" KKV 265 (300e), Andantino for cello and piano in B flat K.anh.46 (374g), Violin Sonata in E minor

Alison Bury, violin
Jennifer Stirling, viola
Timothy Merton, cello
Maggie Cole, fortepiano

8 PM, Saturday, October 28, 2006
    Friends Meeting House (Cambridge, MA)

7 PM, Sunday, October 29, 2006
    Parish Hall, First Parish Church (Concord, MA)

Program details::
This program is a celebration of Mozart's 250th anniversary. For this concert, Maggie Cole will be playing on two beautiful historic fortepianos -- a Paul McNulty copy of a Walter fortepiano from c. 1800 on loan from the Harvard Music Department keyboard collection on Sunday at First Parish in Concord, and a Thomas and Barbara Wolf copy of a Schantz fortepiano from c. 1795 generously loaned by Robert Levin on Saturday at the Friends Meetinghouse in Cambridge.

Maggie Cole, fortepiano

Free concert: Sarasa plays in the EOS Spheres Concert Series

Handel, Telemann, Biber, Schmeltzer, and Vivaldi

Gonzalo Ruiz, oboe
Cynthia Roberts, violin
Timothy Merton, cello
Charles Sherman, harpsichord

12:15-1:15 PM, Thursday, Nov. 16 2006 at Morse Hall, University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH) [Directions & parking | campus map]
Admission is free.

Program: Handel Trio Sonata Op.2 No. 3 in Bb major, Biber Annunciation, Schmeltzer Sonata, Vivaldi Oboe sonata in c minor, Telemann Trio Sonata in g minor from Essercizii Musici for violin, oboe and continuo.

Gonzalo X. Ruiz, oboe

Italian Baroque with Emily Van Evera, soprano

Escape the winter chill and bask in music of 17th-century Venice with internationally-acclaimed early music soprano Emily Van Evera and the baroque strings of Sarasa.

Stirring songs and daring cantatas by the celebrated Venetian singer-composer Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677), the inventor of the cantata and La Serenissima's "virtuosissima cantatrice." Violins, triple harp, cello and harpsichord join in her music and in dazzling filigree and beauty of music for strings by Biagio Marini and Dario Castello.

Emily Van Evera, soprano
Heidi Powell, violin
Richard Hsu, violin
Timothy Merton, cello
Maria Christina Cleary, harp
Charles Sherman, harpsichord

8 PM, Saturday, February 3, 2007
    Friends Meeting House (Cambridge, MA)

7 PM, Sunday, February 4, 2007
    Parish Hall, First Parish Church (Concord, MA)

Emily Van Evera, soprano

The Baroque Violin

Concerti for multiple violins by Bach and Vivaldi, and chamber music of Biber, and Schmelzer

Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin
Cynthia Roberts, violin
Claire Jolivet, violin
Kinloch Earle, violin
Jennifer Stirling, viola
Timothy Merton, cello
Maggie Cole, harpsichord

8 PM, Saturday, May 5, 2007
    Friends Meeting House (Cambridge, MA)

7 PM, Sunday, May 6, 2007
    Parish Hall, First Parish Church (Concord, MA)

Cynthia Roberts

Kinloch Earle

Claire Jolivet

Elizabeth Blumenstock

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