Bach Festival 2022: Armonico Tributo

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Cost: $36.00
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Scottish music found its way into European consciousness in the 17th and 18th centuries. Georg Muffat’s family left Scotland to escape religious persecution. They settled in Savoie in the French Alps, and Muffat grew to be one of the century’s most cosmopolitan musicians – spending time with Lully in Paris and Corelli in Rome. His elegant and lush Armonico Tributo sonatas bring together aspects of both French and Italian music and were given their first performances by Corelli’s orchestra.

Francesco Gemignani’s wonderfully elaborate arrangements of Scottish songs and tunes appeared in a book entitled A Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Music. He did know a thing or two about good taste, being an art dealer, as well as a violin virtuoso and composer who had studied with Corelli in Rome several decades after Georg Muffat. We do not know if Geminiani ever set foot in Scotland. He made his arrangements of Scottish music from some tunes he found in the immensely popular songbook The Tea- Table Miscellany, by Allan Ramsay. Songs from Ramsey’s Tea-Table Miscellany will be featured in a concert later in the Festival.

The Baroque Orchestra Mentorship Programme is a collaboration between Early Music Vancouver, the UBC School of Music and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra. This year-long programme gives student and community musicians the chance to play side by side with experts in historically-informed performance. This unique mentorship initiative is designed to foster and inspire the next generation of early music performers, and support the region’s early music community.

Pre-concert talk: Join us at 6:45 p.m. for a pre-concert interview with Suzie LeBlanc and Marie Nadeau-Tremblay. This talk is included in the live concert ticket price.

PROGRAMME

Georg Muffat
Armonico Tributo
Sonata III
Grave
Allegro
Courente
Adagio
Gavotta
Rondeau

Francesco Geminiani
The Lass of Peaty’s Mill
The Night her Silent Sable Wore (She Rose and Loot Me In)

Robert Mackintosh
Air (Allegro)
Air (Andante)
Miss Burnett of Monboddo’s Reel
Mrs. Richard Walpole’s Reel

Henry Purcell – Thomas D’Urfey
Aminta One Night Had Occasion to Piss
(tune: Mr Purcell’s Jigg Z.430)

Henry Purcell – James Oswald
Moonlight on the Green
Scotch Tune (Amphitryon Z.572)

Henry Purcell – John Dryden
Fairest Isle (King Arthur, Z.628)

Henry Purcell – James Oswald
First Music: Hornpipe (The Fairy Queen Z.629)
Lads of Leith
Sodger Lad

Georg Muffat
Armonico Tributo
Passacaglia from Sonata V

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