The Baroque Music Festival, Corona del Mar, invites you to immerse yourself in the powerful impact of harmonic expression with this year’s Festival theme, Bright Cecilia: The Power of Harmony. Through programs expertly curated and led by artistic director-violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock—and inspired by the patron saint of music, Saint Cecilia—featured soloists and the Festival Orchestra and Chorus bring the community professional, historically-informed interpretations in five concerts over eight days on the beautiful Southern California riviera.
CHAMBER MUSIC – A Spanish Salón
Friday’s chamber music night this year is centered around music by an 18th-century Italian cellist and composer who made his life in Madrid and was inspired by colorful Spanish traditions. Luigi Boccherini’s “Fandango” and E Minor Quintets for guitar and strings are partnered with Manuel Canales’s C Major String Quartet and Catalan composer Fernando Sor’s “Introduction and Variations on Gentil Housard” for solo guitar.
Manuel Braulio Canales López (1747-1786): String Quartet in C Major, Op. 3, No. 1
Boccherini: Quintet for Guitar and Strings in E Minor, No. 7, G.451
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Fernando Sor (1778-1839): Introduction and Variations on Gentil Housard for solo guitar
Boccherini: Quintet for Guitar and Strings in D Major, No. 4, G.448, Fandango
Marc Teicholz, guitar
Elizabeth Blumenstock & Gail Hernández Rosa, violin
Andrew McIntosh, viola
Eva Lymenstull, cello
Patio open at 6:45 p.m. for complimentary wine & waters, teas & coffee · Intermission coffee & cookies · Meet the musicians after the concert
