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Italian Baroque Music for Violin, Harpsichord Features Hall and Parmentier |
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At 8:00 on Saturday, February 16, the Academy of Early Music will present an exciting concert of Italian baroque music at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. Baroque violinist and U-M Doctorate Lara Hall returns from the University of Waikato in New Zealand, joined by U-M Professor Edward Parmentier, internationally renowned for his brilliant performances of early keyboard music. The program will showcase Italian music of an improvisatory nature, from the beginning to the end of the baroque era—Fontana, Castello, Corelli, and Veracini. A Bach sonata is included to contrast with and thus heighten the Italian improvisatory effect.
For the Academy concert, Ms. Hall will be performing on a 1759 violin by Joseph Rösch of Mittenwald, lent courtesy of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments, University of Michigan. This historically important instrument has a transitional neck and is in an excellent state of preservation, retaining all of its original features except for fingerboard and fittings. It has been exhibited at the Lincoln Center Library and Museum of the Performing Arts in New York, and has been described as a "rare and unusually pure example" that bridges the gap between baroque and classical instruments. Other instruments from the Stearns Collection will also be on display at the concert. About the Program Fontana's Sonate a 1, 2, 3 per il Violino o Cornetto, Fagotto, Chitarone, Violoncino o simile altro Istromento were published in 1641 in Venice, over a decade after his death. Hall and Parmentier will perform the sixth of six sonatas in this collection for solo treble instrument and basso continuo. The sonata by Dario Castello is the second of just two sonatas for soprano solo and thoroughbass in his two books of Sonate concertate in stilo moderno. These books were printed in 1621 and 1629, then 1629 and 1744. Only the 1644 printing has been completely preserved. Both the Fontana and Castello are important examples of the early sonata. Corelli's twelve Opus 5 sonatas, published in 1700, are arguably some of the most important compositions in the violin repertoire. These sonatas codified violin technique and were used in music conservatories as teaching pieces long after other baroque compositions had been mostly forgotten.
Bach's sonata BWV 1021was intended for the Count Heinrich Abraham von
Boineburg and is preserved in a manuscript prepared by Bach's second
wife Anna Magdalena. The bass line occurs in two other pieces of chamber
music, BWV 1022 and 1038, with upper parts totally unrelated to BWV
1021. The Veracini sonata was written in Dresden in 1721. About Lara Hall Lara Hall holds a DipMus (Adv) in baroque violin from the University of Auckland, and a DMA in violin performance from the University of Michigan. She returned to New Zealand in 2006 to join the faculty of the University of Waikato, where she teaches violin and chamber music. She is also director of the University of Waikato’s pre-college program Accelerando. Ms. Hall is well known to classical music audiences in New Zealand, as she performs extensively and also teaches master classes throughout the country. She has been recorded by New Zealand’s national classical radio station “Radio NZ Concert” performing both baroque and modern violin. Ms. Hall has performed as a soloist with many orchestras including the Auckland Sinfonietta, Auckland Chamber Orchestra, and Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. She is a member of the New Zealand Chamber Soloists, an eight-player ensemble that performs in differing configurations. Currently concertmaster of the Opus Chamber Orchestra, she will be performing a concerto with that orchestra in February 2008. In 2007, Ms. Hall performed a concerto with AK Barok —New Zealand’s most established period instrument orchestra—and will perform as a soloist with them again in 2008. About Edward Parmentier Edward Parmentier is Professor of Harpsichord and Director of the Early Music Ensemble at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater & Dance. He has performed throughout the United States, Russia, Western Europe, Japan, and Korea on harpsichord and on historic organs, and is a frequent recitalist, lecturer, and adjudicator at symposia and festivals. Mr. Parmentier’s collection of recordings has won both critical and popular acclaim. Recent releases include Bach's partitas, French 17th-century harpsichord music, sonatas of Scarlatti, and music of the English virginalists. He appears frequently in ensemble settings on continuo and as a concerto soloist. Mr. Parmentier conducts modern instrument chamber orchestras in performances of Baroque and classical repertory. His annual summer harpsichord workshops at the University of Michigan attract performers from all over the world. His harpsichord teachers were Albert Fuller and Gustav Leonhardt. Mark Your Calendars The Italian Baroque Concert will take place at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 16th, at the Academy’s 2007–2008 Concert Series location, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 306 North Division, Ann Arbor. Concertgoers have permission to park in the Community High School and Ann Arbor News parking lots, each just a block away. (See the parking map on Downloads.) Open seating tickets, available at the door from 7:30, are $15 general admission, $12 for seniors and Academy of Early Music Members, $5 for students. For more info, call 734-665-5758.
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