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We are pleased to include recent programs from our 2011 season.

Che meraviglia è questa? Music of 17th-century Venice, Naples, and Rome, c. 1610-1725.
Sunday, April 15, 2012, 4:00 PM, Trinity Episcopal Church, 6587 Upper York Road, Solebury, PA
Exquisite chamber music of the early Italian baroque era, and examples of the mature Italian tradition during the first third of the 18th century. $20 general admission, $17 seniors, $12 students. Download detailed progam with notes.


P R O G R A M
Sonata X (Venice, 1621)
..two violins, cello, basso continuo



Dario Castello
(early 17th century)
Canzona XVI (Venice 1608)
..cornetto, violin viola da gamba, cello, harpsichord

Antonio Troillo
(fl. 1606-1608)
Amarilli mia bella (Florence, 1602)
..countertenor and theorbo

Guilio Caccini
(1551-1618)
Sonata XIV (Venice, 1641)
..tenor recorder, violin, basso continuo

Giovanni Battista Fontana
(?1589-?1630)
Sonata sopra la Monica (Venice, 1626)
..two violins, basso continuo

Biagio Marini
(1594-1663)
Gagliarda and Sinfonia(Venice, 1621)
..cornetto, two violins, cello, baroque guitar, harpsichord, tambourine

Francesco Turini
(c. 1595-1656
Perfidissimio volto(Florence, 1602)
..countertenor and harpsichord

Guilio Caccini
TIccata IX (Book I, Rome, 1615) for Harpsichord


Girolamo Frescobaldi
(1583-1643)

Sonata I
..violin, basso continuo


Dario Castello
Concerto in A minor for ecorder, strings, and continuo (Naples, 1725)

........Allegro
........Adagio
........Fuga
........Piano
........Allegro


Alessandro Scarlatti
(166-1725)
Cantata: Or che una nuba ingrata (London, 1733)
..harpsichord

Nicolo Porpora
(1686-1768)
La Fiocco - on period instruments
Joseph Hill, countertenor
Edmond Chan & Agnes Simkens, baroque violin
Lynn Fergusson, baroque cello
Kthleen Spencer, viola da gamba
Richard Kolb, theorbo & baroque guitar
Benjamin T. Berman, harpsichord & organ
Lewis R. Baratz, artistic director, recorder, & harpsichord



The Chappaqua Chamber Series Presents: La Fiocco. Through the Looking Glass: Music of the Early Baroque.

Sunday, March 11, 2012, 3:00 PM Chappaqua Library Auditorium, 195 South Greeley Avenue, Chappaqua, NY
Spendid chamber music of 17th- and early 18th-century composers Dieterich Buxtehude, Paolo Cima Bernardo Gianoncelli, Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Johann Jakob Froberger, and Marin Marais. La Fiocco: Rachel Evans, baroque violin; Lynn Fergusson viola da gamba; Lewis Reece Baratz, harpsichord; Richard Kolb, theorbo.
Chappaqua Library Auditorium, 195 South Greeley Avenue, Chappaqua, New York. Free.
P R O G R A M
Sonata a due in G minor
..violin, viola da gamba, basso continuo

....... Vivace
........Allegro
........Andante-Grave
........Gigue

Dieterich Buxtehude
(1637-1707)
Sonata a 2
..violin viola da gamba, basso continuo

Paolo Cima
(c. 1570-1622)
Solo for Archlute


Bernarndo Gianoncelli
(d. before 1650)

Prélude in G minor
..viola da gamba and theorbo continuo


Marin Marais
(1656-1728)
Sonata for Violin and Continuo in D minor
..viola da gamba and theorbo continuo

........[Adagio]
........Presto
........Adagio
........Presto
........Presto


Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre
(1665-1729)
Toccata III
..harpsichord

Johann Jakob Froberger
(1616-1667)
Sonata X ("Crucifixion)
..viola da gamba and theorbo continuo

........Affectuoso
........Alla breve
........Larghetto
........Vivace


Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
(1644-1704)
La Fiocco - on period instruments
Rachel Evans, baroque violin
Lynn Fergusson, viola da gamba
Richard Kolb, rchlute & theorbo
Lewis R. Baratz, harpsichord





Sunday, March 18, 2012, 4:00 PM
La Fiocco Young Artists' Concert.

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 50 York Street Lambertville, NJ
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Hear songs and arias by Claudio Monteverdi, Henry Purcell, and George Frideric Handel; the Concerto for Two Harpsichords in C Major by Johann Sebastian Bach, Dieterich Buxtehude's chamber cantata Wie soll ich dich empfangen, and a new work for two recorders, viola da gamba, and harpsichord, by El Cerrito, Calfornia composer Glen Shannon.

Featuring La Fiocco's 2012 young artists, Nicole Guberman and Nicole Renna, sopranos; Daniel Foltz-Morrison, tenor; Grant Mech, bass-baritone; Antonio Arosemena, recorder; and Benjamin T. Berman, harpsichord, with La Fiocco core artists Lynn Fergusson, cello & viola da gamba, and Lewis R. Baratz, recorder & harpsichord.

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 50 York Street, Lambertville, New Jersey. Suggested donation of $15 general audience, $12 seniors/students. Proceeds to benefit music at St. Andrew's.

J. S. Bach: Concertos for One and Two Harpsichords
Sunday, October 30, 2011, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Doylestown, PA


...........Lewis R. Baratz & David Clark Little, harpsichord
...........Rachel Evans and Edmond Chan, baroque violin
...........Elizabeth Weinfield, viola
...........Lynn Fergusson, baroque cello
...........Andrew Trombley, double bass


Concerto in C Major for Two Harpsichords (BWV 1061)

..........[Allegro]
..........Adagio
..........Fuga

.........................David Clark Little and Lewis Reece Baratz, harpsichord


from Sonata No. 2 in A minor for Unaccompanied Violin (BWV 1003)

..........Andante
..........Allegro

.........................Rachel Evans, violin


Concerto in G minor for Harpsichord and Strings (BWV 1058)

..........[Allegro]
..........Andante
..........Allegro assai

.........................Lewis Reece Baratz, harpsichord

............................................. Interval

Concerto in D minor for Harpsichord and Strings (BWV 1052)

.........Allegro
.........Adagio
.........Allegro

.........................David Clark Little, harpsichord


from Suite No. 3 in C Major for Unaccompanied Cello (BWV 1009)

..........Preludio

.........................Lynn Fergusson, cello


Concerto in C minor for Two Harpsichords and Strings (BWV 1060)

..........Allegro
..........Adagio
..........Allegro

.........................David Clark Little and Lewis Reece Baratz, harpsichord