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2009: 9th annual period instrument festival
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The ninth 2009 Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival will present three concerts on period instruments at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill, including All the Telemann Fantasies for Flute, as well as pieces by Haydn and Handel. All concerts begin at 7:30 PM.
Now in its 9th season, the Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival, which has been awarded affiliate status by Early Music America, presents period instrument performances of chamber music from the Renaissance through the present by familiar as well as unknown composers in a variety of instrumental combinations, shedding new light upon many aspects of early performance practice. Unpublished works from the Library of Congress are given particular attention, with at least one concert being devoted largely to the performance of these, and several have received their modern day premieres during previous Festivals. The Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival is a nonprofit corporation in the District of Columbia.
THE TELEMANN FANTASIES
All twelve of the Fantasies for solo flute by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) will be performed by baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan. The fantasies, each in a different key, will be preceded by an improvised prelude, as was customary in Telemann's day.
HAYDN: 200TH ANNIVERSARY
Flutist Jeffrey Cohan, violinist/violist Risa Browder and cellist John Moran celebrate the 200th anniversary of the death of Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) with a Divertimento and an 18th-century transcription of one of Haydn's 126 baryton trios, along with works performed in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the death of Carl Wilhelm Glösch (also 1732-1809), probably a student of Frederick the Great's flute teacher Johann Joachim Quantz, and the 250th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest of all French flutists, François Devienne (1759-1803). The music will be performed on instruments similar to those with which Haydn would have been familiar, from copies of late 18th-century prints mostly from the Library of Congress and the Danish National Museum.
HANDEL: 250TH ANNIVERSARY
Soprano Kate Vetter Cain, flutist Jeffrey Cohan, cellist John Moran and harpsichordist Michelle Roy will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the death of George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) will feature Several of Handel's nine German Arias will be performed, as well as the air Sweet Bird, That Shunn'st The Noise Of Folly from Handel's pastoral ode, L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, and his solo cantata Nell dolce dell'oblio. In addition, a Sonatille will be performed in celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Michel Corrette (1709-1795).
The suggested donation (a free will offering) for all performances will be $20. Students 18 years of age and under are encouraged to attend for free. For further information and advance tickets the public may call (800) 281-8026 or St. Mark’s at (202) 543-0053 or see www.chcmf.org.
WASHINGTON POST Thursday, July 2, 2009 At St. Mark's,Good Things Come in Trios It's probably fanciful imagining a large audience turning up to hear obscure chamber music at the height of summer vacation season. But the mere 29 heads I counted at St. Mark's Episcopal Church for Tuesday's Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival recital seemed an especially pathetic showing for such a stylishly played evening. St. Mark's, one of Washington's more strikingly beautiful and acoustically friendly churches, added just the right bloom to the gentle buzz of the festival's period instruments. Tuesday's program -- commemorating the 200th anniversary of the deaths of Haydn and his little-known contemporary, Carl Wilhelm Glösch, and the 250th birthday of François Devienne -- was predictable for a festival whose artistic director, Jeffrey Cohan, is a specialist in baroque and classical flute: All five pieces played were 18th-century trios for flute, violin and cello. If such flute, flute and more flute programming produced an inevitable sameness of tone, these lesser trios by the great Haydn, and great trios by the lesser Glösch, Devienne and their contemporary Franz Anton Hoffmeister met in a middle ground of high competence (the dark-hued Devienne D Minor Trio marginally more memorable than the other scores), and all were played with lived-in ease and affection. -- Joe Banno
