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The 2013 Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival presents two performances on the cutting edge of exploration in the field of early music, examining two little-known areas of musical repertoire: the Italian four-part canzonas of 1582-1628 on July 17 and a premiere of an exciting manuscript documenting the music performed for Louis XIV in evening concerts on July 19, both at St. Mark's Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill at 7:30 PM. Featured musicians are baroque and renaissance flutist Jeffrey Cohan, violinist Risa Browder, violist Leslie Nero, harpsichordist Joseph Gascho and viola da gambist John Moran.
| Both performances at 7:30 pm at:
| St. Mark's Episcopal Church
| 118 3rd Street, SE
| behind the Library of Congress on Capitol Hill
| www.chcmf.org (202) 543-0053
| ~ suggested donation/free-will offering: $20 or $25
| ~ 18 and under free ~
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at 7:30 PM
ITALIAN 4-PART CANZONAS
Jeffrey Cohan ~ renaissance flute
Risa Browder ~ violin
Leslie Nero ~ viola
Joseph Gascho ~ harpsichord
A Washington first: an in-depth exploration of the rarely-heard Italian four-part canzona, which blossomed in print from 1582 to 1628 concurrently both with intense development among violin makers and players in Milan and the surrounding region, and the emerging "baroque" style and a new concept of chordal accompaniment, which was resisted during these decades by some composers who chose to intensify the dynamic interaction of independent instrumental voices in the earlier manner, but ever with more violinistic flair. Stylistically diverse canzonas by Florentio Maschera, Floriano Canale, Giovanni Domenico Rognoni Taeggio, Antonio Troilo, Giovanni Antonio Cangiasi, Giulio Cesare Ardemanio, Giovanni Domenico Rivolta and Nicoló Corradini will be set into perspective with examples of the instrumental versions published in Italy of the four-part French and Flemish chansons that inspired them, contrasting English instrumental music of the period by Peter Philips, John Ward and William Byrd, and works by Girolamo Frescobaldi and Giovanni Paulo Cima in the new style with continuo.
Friday, July 19, 2013 at 7:30 PM
LITTLE EVENING CONCERTS FOR LOUIS XIV
Jeffrey Cohan ~ baroque flute
Risa Browder ~ violin
Leslie Nero ~ viola
John Moran ~ cello
A Washington premiere! This exciting and completely unknown manuscript of 770 pages was meticulously prepared in 1714 by André Danican Philidor, the king's music librarian, "for the little concerts given for His Majesty (Louis XIV) in the evenings". Discovered some years ago by Jeffrey Cohan in Paris and finally viewed again and brought back last spring, "Little Evening Concerts for Louis XIV" recreates the regular evening performances given by the illustrious members of Louis' Musique de la Chambre. This incomparable new source of information revealing the specific repertoire for these concerts and Louis XIV's preferred chamber music in his last years is to be explored, almost surely for the first time ever on the east coast and in one of the first performances anywhere since the death of Louis XIV in 1715, at the very low pitch of Louis' court on the three-piece one-keyed baroque flute and other instruments with which the king was familiar.
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| Wednesday Jul 17, 2013 7:30 PM - Friday Jul 19, 2013 7:30 PM | $20.00 - $25.00 |
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LocationSt. Mark's Episcopal Church (View)
118 - 3rd Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
United States
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