During this special Baroque programme, the effect that an instrument such as the Fokker organ might have had on music from the time of Christiaan Huygens is explored through the use of ornamentation, enharmonic notes, and Baroque improvisation. Research has shown that the availability of extra notes/keys (to allow for retuning) led some 17th-century composers to make unconventional use of chromatic microtones. Using works by composers such as Trabaci, Delusse, Huygens, Monteclair, and Rossi, the Baroque ensemble La Barca Leyden will attempt, where necessary, to rewrite music history.
2009-11-22
The fifth tone of Christiaan Huygens
Programme
D.Gesualdo de Venosa (ca. 1566-1613) arr. R. Honing – Gagliarde / Magnificat
G. Salvatore (ca. 1610-1688) arr. R. Honing – Durezze e ligature / Dicemi spesso
S. van Noordt (1659-1705) – Sonate
G. Strozzi (ca. 1615-1690) – Toccata quarta per l’elevatione
G.M. Trabaci (ca. 1575-1647) arr. R. Honing – Consonanza stravaganti / Amor
M. Rossi (ca. 1601/1602-1656) – Toccata settima
C. Huygens (1596-1687) – from: Pathodia sacra et profana
– Ab omnibus
– Proba me Deus
– Riposta dalla finestra
– Graves tesmoins
Traditional (several composers) arr. R. Honing – La Follia
Ch. Delusse (1720-1774) – Air a la Grecque (fl, vcl, org)
M.P. de Monteclair (1667-1737) – Cantate “Le depit genereux”
Baroque ensemble La Barca Leyden at the inauguration concert of the Fokker organ on 17 May 2009
Support
This concert is made possible with support from: the Dutch Performing Arts Fund+, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the SNS REAAL Fund, and the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ.
Fokker organ concert
DSunday 22 November 2009, 11:00 a.m.
Admission fee €13.00 (€10.50 reduced price)
Small Hall, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ
Piet Heinkade 1, 1019 BR Amsterdam
Performers
La Barca Leyden: Valeria Mignaco – soprano / Raymond Honing – traverso / Elske Tinbergen – baroque cello / Cees van der Poel – Fokker organ