Friday, September 07, 2007

SFEMS 2007-8 season

The San Francisco Early Music Society
31st Annual Concert Series 2007-2008

Featuring:
HOPKINSON SMITH, Renaissance lute

THE NEW ESTERHAZY QUARTET (alternate website): Kati Kyme and Lisa Weiss, violins; Anthony Martin, viola; William Skeen, cello

LA MONICA: Phoebe Jevtovic, soprano; Tekla Cunningham and Susan Feldman, violins; Ondine Young, viola; William Skeen, viol and cello; Daniel Zuluaga, chitarrone and guitar; Avi Stein, harpsichord

SCHOLA CANTORUM SAN FRANCISCO

LA RICHE & CO.: Monica Huggett, violin; Gonzalo X. Ruiz, oboe; Joanna Blendulf, cello; Katherine Shao, harpsichord

FORTUNE'S WHEEL: Lydia Heather Knutson and Aaron Sheehan, voice; Shira Kammen and Robert Mealy, voice, vielle, and harp

HARMONIE UNIVERSELLE
: Florian Deuter, violin and musical direction; Mónica Waisman, violin; David Glidden, violin and viola; Balázs Máté, cello; Philippe Grisvard, harpsichord

HALLIFAX & JEFFREY with guest artist Jakob Lindberg

Early Music defined
Classical.net early music links
Resources for Singers: HIP
Early Music Takes Center Stage

San Francisco Classical Voice

From Iron Tongue of Midnight:
The New Esterhazy Quartet is about to undertake a remarkable cycle: over the next two years, they will play all 68 of Haydn's string quartets, on original instruments, in 18 concerts. Sixty-eight!


I'm so happy to see this. I feel like Haydn is one of the great unknown composers even though he more or less invented the modern symphony and string quartet. I hope the series is well-attended. I don't expect to have many chances in my life to see all of these played by one group.

The first season consists of 10 concerts at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in San Francisco, plus an additional program that will be presented at three Bay Area venues under the auspices of the San Francisco Early Music Society. All of the St. Mark's concerts will be at 4 p.m.

And the very first concert is soon, soon, soon, on Sunday, July 1.

Here's the complete season and contact information for the quartet. This is cut-and-pasted from email posted on the Well, so it is not beautiful. I would put it behind a cut tag if I could figure out how, sigh.


"Individual tickets are $25 ($20 for SFEMS members, $10 for students and seniors 65+), a subscription to the St. Mark's series is $175, or $250 for a pair of tickets to all ten concerts. Please make your purchase at the door."

The New Esterhazy Quartet
POB 251
Vacaville CA 95696
phone: 510/233-9403
temporary email address: a.p.martin@earthlink.net


Sunday 7/1/07: Founder's Concert I
Op33/5 in G (How Do You Do?)
Op2/2 in E
*
Op55/1 in A
Op76/5 in D


Saturday 9/29/07: Haydn and Royalty, Part 1
The Princes and the Frog
Op1/3 in D (Prince Nicholas Esterh?)
Op77/1 in G (Prince Lobkowitz)
*
Op2/4 in F (Prince Nicholas Esterh?)
Op50/6 in D (The Frog)


Friday, Saturday, Sunday 10/19?21/2007: The Horseman & the Hunt
Presented by the S.F. Early Music Society
(http://sfems.org/conser07.htm)
Op1/1 in Bb (La Chasse)
Op74/3 in g (The Rider)
*
Op17/3 in Eb
Op33/3 in C (The Bird)


Saturday 11/24/2007: Haydn and Royalty, Part 2
The Duke and the Counts
Op76/1 in G (Count Joseph von Erd
Op33/4 in Bb (Grand Duke Paul of Russia)
*
Op71/1 in Bb (Count Anton Georg Apponyi)
Op33/2 in Eb (Grand Duke Paul of Russia)


Sunday 12/16/2007: Haydn's Fugues
Op42 in d
Op20/5 in f
*
Op20/6 in A
Op50/4 in f#


Saturday 1/19/2008: Haydn and Royalty, Part 3
The King and the Emperor
Op50/2 in C (King of Prussia)
Op50/3 in Eb (King of Prussia)
*
Op76/3 in C (The Emperor)


Saturday 2/16/2008: Haydn in Bethlehem
Op17/4 in c
Op20/3 in g
*
Op17/1 in E


Saturday 3/8/2008: Haydn in Salem
Op2/6 in Bb
Op17/2 in F
*
Op20/1 in Eb
Op77/2 in F


Saturday 4/12/2008: Haydn in London
The Wisdom of Salomon
Op64/3 in Bb
Op71/3 in Eb
*
Op74/1 in C


Saturday 5/31/2008: A Toast to Johann Tost
Op54/1 in G
Op55/3 in Bb
*
Op64/1 in C


Saturday 6/21/2008: Haydn in Hungary
Op33/1 in b
Op54/2 in C
*
Op20/4 in D
Op76/2 in d (Quinten)

CHAMBER MUSIC REVIEW: Hail the New Esterházys By Rebekah Ahrendt ...
Classical at the Freight
Haydn Society of North America

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