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ARTEK
Gwendolyn Toth, director
with Robert Mealy, violin
An exploration of the birth of the violin sonata, from its origins as "modern music" in early seventeenth-century Venice to the fantastic and virtuosic inventions of the brilliant violinist-composers working in late 17th-century Vienna. The program will be performed by noted baroque violinist Robert Mealy, accompanied by Motomi Igarashi, violone and lirone; Daniel Swenberg, theorbo; Charles Weaver, lute and guitar; and Gwendolyn Toth, harpsichord, organ and director of ARTEK.
The Program
Giovanni Paolo Cima Sonata per violino e violone
Giovanni dalla Casa Divisions on Frais et Gailliard
Dario Castello Sonata Prima, Book 1
Giovanni Battista Fontana Sonata Seconda & Terza
Marco Uccellini Sonata 2, "La Luciminia contenta"
Op.4
Uccellini Sonata Quarta, Op.7
Intermission
Antonio Bertali Chiaconna
Giovanni Pandolfi Mealli Sonata 4, "La Castella" Op.3
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber Sonata Representativa
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer Sonata Terza from Sonatae
Unarum Fidium
H.I.F. von Biber Sonata 2 from Sonatae Violino
Solo
Robert Mealy is one of America’s leading historical string players; his playing has been praised by the Boston Globe for its “imagination, taste, subtlety, and daring,” and the New Yorker described him as "New York's world-class early music violinist." He has performed as a soloist and leader with ARTEK since 1996.
ARTEK, directed by Gwendolyn Toth, has earned a reputation as one of America's premier ensembles performing 17th-century Italian and German music. The ensemble gained international recognition for its recording of Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo in 1995, and toured with the Mark Morris Dance Group throughout America, the United Kingdom, and Europe from 1997 to 2002. ARTEK created a special musical theater show I'll Never See the Stars Again, with madrigals by Monteverdi and postmodern staging, for performances in New York City in 2002 and 2003 and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2005, receiving high acclaim for this innovative dramatic presentation.
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DATES & TIMES:
Friday, March 19, 2010
8 pm
Sunday, March 21, 2010
4 pm
PLACES:
3/19/10
All Saints’ Church
17 All Saints’ Dr.
Princeton, NJ
3/21/10
Immanuel Lutheran Church
122 East 88th Street
(at Lexington Avenue)
Manhattan
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