Event

A Due Stromenti - Lakeville

The season opening concert explores rarely-heard, exquisite repertoire for theorbo and harpsichord by Johann Hieronymus Kapsberger, Giovanni Pittoni and Bellerofonte Castaldi, and keyboard works by Girolamo Frescobaldi and Claudio Merulo. The theorbo is the largest member of the lute family of instruments that was developed around the end of the 16th century primarily to accompany small vocal and instrumental chamber ensembles as well as solo vocal music. Its use as a solo instrument was an afterthought, but innovators on theorbo left behind a small repertoire of high quality. Rarer still was its use as an obbligato instrument in chamber music.

Hideki Yamaya, theorbo and tiorbino, and Christine Gevert, harpsichord and organ.

This concert will also be presented the previous day,
Saturday, Sept. 7, 4 pm at Saint James Place, 352 Main St., Great Barrington, MA

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