The Early Moderns – Vienna’s Rise
The brilliant American ensemble Quicksilver — “Revered like rock stars within the early music scene” (New York Times) — performs music reflecting the music in Austria in the early Baroque period the first great period of Viennese music.
The program features the instrumental sonatas of composers including Schmeltzer Kerll Rosenmüller Fux and Weichlein. The virtuosic ensemble presents a unique sound with the combination of strings continuo sackbut and dulcian.
Program:
Johann Heinrich Schmeltzer (c. 1623–1680)
Sonata 7 à 5 from Sacro–profanus concentus musicus (1662)
Giovanni Legrenzi (1626–1678)
Sonata terza à 2 from La cetra sonate a 2–4 Libro Terzo Op. 10 (1673)
Johann Caspar Kerll (1627–1693)
Sonata à tre in G minor from the Düben Collection Uppsala
Antonio Bertali (1605–1669)
Sonata à 3 in A minor from the Düben Collection Uppsala
Johann Heinrich Schmeltzer (c. 1623–1680)
Sonata à 4 “La Carolietta” from the Kroměříž Library 1669
Interval
Johann Rosenmüller (1617–1684)
Sonata X à 5 from Sonate à 2 3 4 e 5 (Nuremberg 1682)
Johann Caspar Kerll (1627–1693)
Passacaglia variata from Toccate Canzoni et altre Sonate (1675)
Johann Joseph Fux (1644–1704)
Sonata à 4 in g minor from the Kroměříž Library 1717
Johann Kaspar Kerll (1627–1693)
Sonata à 2 in F major from the Rost MS (Baden-Baden c.1660)
Romanus Weichlein (1650–1706)Sonata III from Encaenia musices Op.1 (Innsbruck 1695)
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
First Church of Christ, Scientist, 1205 Pandora Avenue, Victoria, Canada
