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HANDEL IN ITALY: VIRTUOSIC CANTATAS

Friday August 4, 2017 | 7:30pm (Pre-concert talk 6:45pm)
Christ Church Cathedral

Throughout the history of the creative arts, young artists have acquired the skills of their trade through the imitation and transformation of preexisting models. During Handel’s early years in Italy, he made a point of learning from, copying from, and most importantly, expanding on the musical material with which he came in contact. For this program, two of Europe’s most accomplished young Baroque vocalists, Terry Wey and Jenny Hogstrom, perform virtuosic cantatas and fiery love duets by Handel from his early Italian period as well as a duet by one of his mentors, Agostino Steffani.

PROGRAMME

Sonata VII in F major – Bernardo Pasquini

Begl’occhi, oh Dio, non più (1699) Chamber duet – Agostino Steffani

Toccata, Fuga, en la mineur | A minor – Alessandro Scarlatti

Nel dolce tempo, HWV 135b Italian cantata for alto voice – George Frederic Handel
Composed in London, after 1710

Interval

Sonata IX in c minor – Bernardo Pasquini

La Lucretia Solo Cantata, HWV 145 for soprano – G.F. Handel
Composed in Florence or Venice, 1706?, copied for marquis Ruspoli on 31 August 1709

Cello sonata in C major, Op. 2 No. 3 – Salvatore Lanzetti
Published in 1750

Tanti Strali, Chamber duet – G.F. Handel HWV 197
Composed between 1710-11