• Friday, September 27, 2024 at 7pm at Brattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro VT (tickets at bmcvt.org)

• Saturday, September 28, 2024 at 7pm at Friends Meeting House, Cambridge

• Sunday, September 29, 2024 at 3:30pm at Follen Community Church, Lexington

“Clarity, brilliance, tenderness, and strangeness” - words that Benjamin Britten used to describe Henry Purcell’s music. They also express that very distinct English school of composition explored by John Blow, and revisited later in the 20th century by Vaughan Williams and Gerald Finzi. Including a new set of variations for string quintet by Robert Merfeld, inspired by Orlando Gibbons’ famous madrigal, The Silver Swan.

With Jason McStoots, tenor; Jesse Irons, Megumi Stohs Lewis, violins; Anna Griffis, viola; Jennifer Morsches, Timothy Merton, cellos; Daniel Padgett, keyboard

Program:

John Blow _ Chaconne a 4 in G major

Henry Purcell - Songs for tenor and basso continuo

Sweet, be no longer sad
I’ll sail upon the Dog-star
An Evening Hymn

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Household Music: Three Preludes on Welsh Hymns Tunes for string quartet

I. Fantasia: "Crug-y-bar"
II. Scherzo: "St. Denio"
III. Variation: "Aberystwyth"

Robert Merfeld - The Silver Swan (after Gibbons with a ground and off the ground bass) for string quintet *World Premier

Gerald Finzi - A Young Man’s Exhortation, Op. 14 for tenor and piano

Young Man’s Exhortation
Ditty
Comet
The Sigh
Former Beauties
Transformations
Regret Not Me

Henry Purcell (arr. Benjamin Britten) - Chacony in G minor

Ticket Prices:

Tickets purchased in person:
(at the door by cash, credit card, or check)


Adult: $30
Senior: $25
Student/Under 35: $10
Under 18: free

Tickets to Brattleboro concerts at the Brattleboro Music Center are available for $20 in advance at their website www.bmcvt.org, or $25 at the door.

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.