The Pacific Baroque Players and harpsichord soloist/conductor Alexander Weimann are the featured musicians in the Coast Recital Society concert this Sunday, Jan. 21, at 2:30 p.m. The concert at the Raven’s Cry Theatre will feature a wonderful and varied program of music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Phillip Telemann.
Weimann is artistic director of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra. The Pacific Baroque Players are all members of Vancouver’s Pacific Baroque Orchestra, one of Canada’s most exciting and innovative ensembles, known for performing “early music for modern ears.” The Pacific Baroque Players performing in this concert are all superb soloists: Soile Stratkauskas, flute; violinists Choe Meyers and Christi Meyers; Mieka Michaux, viola; Natalie Mackie, violone; and Nathan Whittaker, cello. Maestro Weimann will be both harpsichord soloist and conductor. Highly esteemed as a keyboard soloist, conductor and chamber music partner, Weimann is also conductor of the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, and frequent guest conductor of several ensembles including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia, Montreal’s Arion Baroque Orchestra, and the Portland Baroque Orchestra.
The CRS concert will include two works by Telemann: Paris Quartet #6 in E-minor, TWV 43:e4 and Flute Concerto in D-major, TWV 51:D; and three works by Bach: Trio Sonata for 2 Violins and Continuo in G-major, BWV 1038; Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in D-major, BWV 1054, and Brandenburg Concerto #5, BWV 1050. Weimann will perform on a double-manual French harpsichord built in 1975 by West Coast instrument builders Edward Turner and Craig Tomlinson. The harpsichord design is based on a 1769 instrument by renowned 18th century French harpsichord builder Pascal Taskin. The instrument is part of Early Music Vancouver’s Collection of Early Instruments.
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