French Baroque music with Sinfonia SpirituosA

Saturday, October 15, 2022, 4pm

Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
2620 Capitol Ave, Sacramento, CA 95816 (map)
Parking is available in the Sutter Community Garage at N. and 27th Street, with a weekend flat rate of $10.

The Alliance Française de Sacramento invites you to join us and our friends from Sinfonia Spirituosa for a wonderful baroque concert!

This program features works that range from 1629 to 1747, and will spotlight each performer in their distinctive role. Guest mezzo-soprano, Julie Miller, joins us in ferocious, passionate, and intimate arias by Handel and Rameau that speak of love lost and won. Sonata X, by early Italian composer Dario Castello, engages 2 violins and bassoon in dramatic, fiery dialog, supported by a continuo team of theorbo and guitar. Tomaso Albinoni's Sonata à cinque, composed in a later Italian style, is full of rich string writing and melodic charm. Artistic Director Lorna Peters will perform Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Forqueray's La Rameau for solo harpsichord, followed by Rameau's return tribute, La Forqueray, for strings, flute and bassoon. And since no Sinfonia Spirituosa concert is complete without French opera-ballet music, our program will conclude with exotic and colorful instrumental pieces from Rameau's Les Indes Galantes.

Check Sinfonia Spirituosa Concerts here https://sinfoniaspirituosa.org/performances/  
The same concert will be in Berkeley on Sunday October 16th, 2022.

Program:

• Tomaso Albinoni: Sonata à cinque, Op. 2, No. 3
• Dario Castello: Sonata X, Book II
• Georg Frideric Handel: Trio Sonata in G minor, Op. 2, No. 2, HWV 387
• Georg Frideric Handel: "Scherza Infida" from Ariodante;  Julie Miller, mezzo-soprano
• Antoine Forqueray: "La Rameau" from Suite No. 5 in C Minor
• Jean-Philippe Rameau: "La Forqueray" from Piéces de Clavecin en Concert V
• Georg Frideric Handel: Trio Sonata in G minor, Op. 2, No. 2, HWV 387
• Georg Frideric Handel: "Un pensiero nemico di pace" from Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno; Julie Miller, mezzo-soprano
• Jean-Philippe Rameau: Suite from Les Indes Galantes

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