Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Choral Tout de Suite
Friday April 11, 7:30 PM
Join us for a night of Baroque dance classics! After Jean-Féry Rebel’s “characters of dance” teaches us the full emotional range of Baroque dance, the concert dives into some of the era’s most unforgettable music by Bach (including his ‘Air on a G String’), and Handel. Then we’re back to the theatre with more rousing dance and dramatic music by Rameau, full of rhythm and grace.
JEAN-FÉRY REBEL Les caractères de la danse (arranged by Pisendel)
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op. 6, No.10, HWV 328
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU Suite du théâtre including music from Naïs, Dardanus, Les Boréades and Les indes galantes.
Avi Stein conductor
Tickets available here.
San Francisco Chamber Orchestra: Main Stage 4, Rising Stars
Saturday April 26, 7:30 PM
PROGRAM:
Jory Fankuchen, Principal Conductor
Felix Mendelssohn – The Hebrides (“Fingal’s Cave”)
Nathaniel Heyder – Phases of Ruin, world premiere and SFCO Commission
with support from the NEA and Emerging Black Composers Project
Bela Bartók – Concerto for Viola and Orchestra
featuring Pearl de la Motte, viola – Klein Competition winner
Our program begins with the mysterious sounds of the sea at Fingal’s Cave. Mendelssohn’s incomparable Hebrides Overture, written at the tender age of 21, has captured the imagination of its listeners since the day it was conceived. Following, in our ongoing collaboration with the Emerging Black Composer’s Project, supported by the NEA, we present the work of another talented young composer, Nathaniel Heyder’s World Premiere for chamber orchestra. And in a new collaboration with the Irving Klein International String Competition, we are thrilled to present our final “Rising Star” of the program, viola virtuoso, Pearl de la Motte. Winner of the 2024 competition, Pearl will perform Bartok’s haunting and dynamic Viola Concerto.
This concert is free. Please RSVP.
