A 300th birthday tribute to the music-loving and music-making monarch Frederick the Great. Featured will be works highlighting various styles popular within “Fritz’s” court — Baroque, galant, and the dramatic empfindsamer stil. Lively and lovely trio sonatas and quartets by Quantz, Janitsch, C.P.E. Bach, and Benda, plus selections by the King himself, a talented composer and an accomplished flutist. Acclaimed New York oboist Sarah Davol will make her debut with Old Post Road for these royal performances. Birthday party with cake completes the concert!
Friday, March 9, 8 pm, First Parish, 50 Cochituate Road (intersection of routes 20 and 27), Wayland
Co-presented by the Wayland Historical Society
Saturday, March 10, 3 pm, Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston
This Old Post Road excursion will trace the musical migrations of several of the many composers from Bohemia who enlivened the cultural centers of Europe through their stylish compositions and virtuoso performances in the late eighteenth century. The program will include inventive quartets and trios by Dussek, Stamitz, Štepán, and Gyrowetz, along with a Mozart overture written for Prague.
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Centuries before The Riddler posed his devious taunts to Batman, great classical composers were challenging their audiences with clever musical puzzles, labyrinths, and circles. Enjoy selections from J. S. Bach’s Musical Offering, a “musical circle” by Bach’s student Johann Kirnberger, and Marin Marais’ masterwork La gamme (The Scale), which will be performed in its rarely-heard expanded orchestration. During intermission, the audience will be invited to participate in Mozart’s Musical Dice Game. If you’re smart, you won’t miss this mirthful musical mélange!
An array of Baroque works celebrating Christmas and saluting the frosty arrival of Old Man Winter! Warm yourself with Shakespeare songs by Thomas Arne, a cantata by Boismortier depicting the delights and difficulties of the season, a rare period arrangement of Vivaldi’s Winter concerto from his Four Seasons, noëls from Delalande, a Christmas cantata by Telemann, and more. Exciting soprano Kristen Watson will join the ensemble for this exuberant and expressive program.
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