A new program by violinist and conductor Meret Lüthi and her internationally renowned Baroque orchestra, “Les Passions de l’Âme.”
Pastoral Music. Spotlight: The Rarely Heard Chalumeau
A new program by violinist and conductor Meret Lüthi and her internationally renowned Baroque orchestra “Les Passions de l’Âme” presents pastoral music for various ensembles. The lineup includes contralto Lara Morger, winner of the 2024 Bach Prize, and clarinetists Joan Calabuig Gaspar and Álvaro Iborra Jiménez. They will showcase the chalumeau—a reed instrument from the clarinet family that is rarely heard today—in concertos by Fasch and Telemann.
Lara Morger, alto
Joan Calabuig Gaspar & Álvaro Iborra Jiménez, chalumeau
Les Passions de l’Âme
Meret Lüthi, violin and conductor
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer: Balletti à 4 in D major “Pastorella”
Johann Friedrich Fasch: Concerto for Chalumeau in B-flat major, FaWV L:B1
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer: “La bella pastora” for two violins and basso continuo
Antonio Vivaldi: “Cum dederit dilectis” in C major from “Nisi Dominus,” RV 608
Giuseppe Tartini: Sonata for Violin in A major, Op. 1 No. 13 “Pastorale”
Antonio Vivaldi: “Veni, veni, me sequere fida” from “Juditha triumphans,” RV 644
Georg Philipp Telemann: Concerto for Two Chalumeaux, TWV 52:d1
Duration: 2 x 40 min, 20-min intermission
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