starring:

Stephen Alltop, fortepianist

Brandi Berry, Baroque violinist

 

 

1870 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL

$20 ($15 seniors, $5 students)

(Northwestern University students FREE)

 

 

This is a unique opportunity to hear two Mozart sonatas for piano and two Beethoven sonatas for violin and piano performed as they were originally heard by the audiences of that time.

 

Rarely experienced in concerts today, you will hear an  authentic Broadwood piano (circa 1811) that has been beautifully restored by Ken Eschete of Northwestern University.

 

Starring award-winning Baroque violinist Brandi Berry and Ars Musica Chicago's acting music director Stephen Alltop on the Broadwood fortepiano, this event will feature two piano sonatas: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Sonata in G major, K. 302  and his Sonata in B-flat major, K. 454, along with two sonatas for violin and piano by Ludwig van Beethoven, his Sonata for Klavier und Violine, Op. 12, Nr. 1 in D major, and his Sonata for Klavier und Violine, Op. 12, Nr. 3 in E-flat major.

 

 

 

AN ALL-ITALIAN PROGRAM starring:

 

 

 

Following Ars Musica Chicago's success last year presenting the United States premier of Egidio Duni's opera NERONE, conductor Stephen Alltop directs members of the Northwestern University Baroque Music Ensemble in an all-Italian concert of two dramatic oratorios by Giacomo Carissimi:  JEPTHA andJONAH.  Carissimi’s setting of JEPTHA, for 6 voices and continuo, is remarkable for its exquisite choruses and heartfelt laments.  In JONAH, which is scored for multiple soloists, chorus, strings and continuo, Carissimi tells the famous tale of Jonah’s attempt to hide from God, his stormy flight, being swallowed by the whale, and his ultimate prophecy to the people of Ninevah.  The program also includes two richly harmonic and virtuosic concerti grossi of Pietro Locatelli.

 

 

 

 

starring:

Stephanie Sheffield, soprano

 

The closing concert of the season contrasts the music of the Ars Nova, exemplified by the work of Machaut and Landini with a lively new style developing in the Low Countries during the first half of the 15th century. It came to be known as the early Renaissance.

 

Sacred and secular songs will be featured in popular forms of the period - the ballad, the motet, and the chanson, among others. In addition, dance music will be interspersed among the songs. Although instruments were not specified for instrumental music at this time, we know from iconographical sources that harp and lute were a common pairing.

 

A variety of dance forms are explored with this pairing of instruments, such as the estampie, the bassadansa and the saltarello. Included in this concert are pieces by Guillaume de Machaut, Francesco Landini, Jacopo da Bologna, John Dunstaple, Guillaume Dufay, and Gilles Binchois, among others.

 

Seating is general admission.

 

SPECIAL SERIES DISCOUNT: You may purchase all three concerts for 20% off.   (This applies only to the full price admission and senior rates.) 

 

Orders for tickets are by phone, mail or e-mail only. And since this is "early music," we do things the old-fashioned way: NO CREDIT CARDS.

 

So, reserve your tickets in advance, then pay cash or check at the door. Include your full name, number of tickets, date of concert, and phone number with your request. Simple, easy.

 

Advanced reservations are recommended.

 

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Vail Chapel is about 5 blocks from the Davis Street elevated stop.