Goin’ for Baroque:
The Princeton Festival Baroque Orchestra will spread its wings in three concerts, which will take place over a little more than a week.
This year, for the first time, principals of the ensemble will come together for a chamber music program on June 17. Personnel will include the orchestra’s concertmaster, Juan Carlos Zamudio, violinist Reynaldo Patino, violist Maria Romero, cellist Anna Steinhoff, contrabassist Eric Fisher, and harpsichordist Gregory Geehern.
Reflective of the broader festival, the concert will feature lesser-heard works by Heinrich Biber, Johann Rosenmüller, and Domenico Gabrielli, alongside heavy hitters Dietrich Buxtehude, George Frideric Handel, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The full ensemble will convene on June 21 to present music by Handel, Alessandro Stradella, Johann Adolph Hasse, Georg Philipp Telemann, and Johann Sebastian Bach. Both concerts will take place at Princeton Abbey And Cemetery.
Then, on June 24, the group will participate in a concert with chorus and orchestra. Dr. Jan Harrington will share the podium with conductors from the festival’s conducting masterclass. The program will include Handel’s Chandos Anthem 11a, “Let God Arise,” Antonio Vivaldi’s “Kyrie,” RV 587, Claudio Monteverdi’s “Beatus Vir,” and Jan Dismas Zelenka’s “Miserere.” That concert will be held at Miller Chapel on the campus of Princeton Theological Seminary.
Read more about the Princeton Festival Baroque Orchestra and festival artistic director Richard Tang Yuk in my article in this week’s edition of U.S. 1 Newspaper – PrincetonInfo:
http://www.princetoninfo.com/index.php/component/us1more/?Itemid=6&key=6-14-17baroque
The Princeton Festival runs through June 25. More information and a complete schedule are posted at princetonfestival.org.