Baroque

Our next concert was to feature Seattle Baroque Music Director Alex Weimann playing an All Bach performance on the Flentrop Organ at St Mark’s Cathedral in partnership with the Cathedral’s All Bach series. However, due to current travel restrictions, this performance has been postponed one year to Friday, May 14, 2021. Mark your calendars, and if you have bought tickets to this concert, they will be honored next year.

Alexander Weimann, Music Director of the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, is also a renowned organist. Weimann will select from the great canon of Bach’s famous works and will also play improvisations in the style of the master.

Presented in collaboration with Early Music Seattle and the Seattle Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

Our final “House Concert” for the season presents Artistic Director James Richman in a recital featuring Jean-Philippe Rameau’s harpsichord works, in conjunction with his recording of this complete oeuvre.

What do Barbra Streisand, Lady Gaga, and The Cello have in common? They all started their musical journey supporting others and using their talents behind the scenes, until one day they found their own voice. Follow the journey of the cello from essential subordinate to celebrated principal with Artistic Director Nathan Whittaker.

Handel’s great early oratorio La Resurrezione, which established his reputation in Rome when it was given at the palace of Marchese Francesco Ruspoli, with the finest singers and an orchestra led by Corelli himself.  Soloists will include Anna Fredericka Poppova as Maddalena, David Grogan as Lucifer, Nicholas Garza as Cleofe, Tucker Bilodeau as San Giovanni, and Jillian Grace Anderson as the Angel. There is no chorus, except for a finale sung by all the characters.

Enjoy an evening of intimate 17^th-century English chamber music by Henry Purcell and musicians in his circle. This intimate ensemble of violinists Christine Wilkinson-Beckman, Courtney Kuroda, Laurie Wells; cello/viola da gambist Caroline Nicholas, lutenist John Lenti; and organist Jillon Stopples Dupree will present music fit for the royal music room, or your living room!

Henry Purcell: Suite in G-major Z770 (about 8′)

Matthew Locke: Suite in D-dorian (about 8′)

William Young: Sonata III à 4 (if we have a viol) and
Young: Sonata VIII à 4 Allemand 2, Corrente 5, Saraband 2, in G-Dorian

Purcell: Chacony in G-minor Z730