Boson Early Music Fesival PRESENTS

Quicksilver

Robert Mealy & Julie Andrijeski, Directors & violins

Early Moderns: The (very) First Viennese School

Sonata settima à 5 Johann Heinrich Schmeltzer from Sacro-profanus concentus musicus (1662) (ca. 1623–1680)

Sonata terza à 2 Giovanni Legrenzi from La cetra, sonate a 2–4, Libro Quarto, Op. 10 [11] (1673) (1626–1690)

Sonata à 3 Andreas Oswald from the Ludwig Partiturbuch, Gotha (1662) (1634–1665)

Sonata à tre in G minor Johann Caspar Kerll from the Düben Collection, Uppsala (1627–1693)

Sonata à 3 in A minor Antonio Bertali from Prothimia suavissima, Book II (1672) (1605–1669)

Sonata à 4 “La Carolietta” Schmeltzer from the Kroměříž Library (1669)

Passagaglia variata Kerll from Toccate, Canzoni, et altre Sonate (1675)

Sonata à 4 in G minor Johann Joseph Fux from the Kroměříž Library (1717) (1660–1741)

The Boston Early Music Festival thanks LORNA E. OLECK for her leadership support of tonight’s performance by Quicksilver and DIANE and JOHN PAUL BRITTON for their leadership support of tonight’s performance by Robert Mealy, Co-director and violin

Sonata à 2 in F major Kerll from the Rost MS (Baden-Baden, ca. 1660)

Sonata decima à 5 Johann Rosenmüller from Sonate à 2, 3, 4, e 5 (Nuremberg, 1682) (ca. 1619–1684)

Double-manual German harpsichord by Allan Winkler, Medford, Massachusetts, 1989, after Fleischer, property of the Boston Early Music Festival.

Continuo Organ by Bennett & Giuttari, Rehoboth, Massachusetts, Op. 6, 1996.

LIVE CONCERT

Friday, March 10, 2023 at 8pm First Church in Cambridge, Congregational 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts

VIRTUAL CONCERT

Friday, March 24, 2023 – Friday, April 7, 2023 BEMF.org

Quicksilver

Robert Mealy & Julie Andrijeski, Directors & violins

Dominic Teresi, dulcian

David Morris, viola da gamba

Greg Ingles, sackbut

Charles Weaver, guitar & lute

Avi Stein, harpsichord & organ

Program subject to change.

Ball Square Films & Kathy Wittman, Video Production

Antonio Oliart Ros, Recording Engineer