Arts and Music at Redeemer

Concerto Baroque will present their first performance on Saturday, November 24, 7:30 PM at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer. The ensemble brings together five busy early music performers of the Pacific Northwest to present chamber works featuring trumpet, violin and soprano by Baroque masters.

Concerto Baroque is Linda Tsatsanis, soprano; Stephen Cresswell, violin; Judson Scott, trumpet; Nathan Whitaker, cello; and Sheila Bristow, continuo. Individually they have performed through out North America for established ensembles such as Portland Baroque, Seattle Baroque, Northwest Baroque, Seattle Pro Musica, Tafel Music and St. Mary’s Chamber Orchestra.

The ensemble performs on the instruments current when the music was written and in the styles the composers would have assumed. For example, the trumpet is a valveless instrument and the violin and cello are strung with gut strings, creating the warm tonal colors called for in the music.

This first program includes vocal and instrumental music of Italy and Germany including works by Telemann, Fantini, Caccini and Corbett which broadly sketch the bounderies of the Baroque style.

The music selected for this program spans the range of the Baroque period. The earliest music on the program, a few short sonatas by Fantini, are the first examples of the trumpet leaving the parade ground and stepping into the concert hall (ca 1630); similarly the vocal works by Caccini were groundbreaking in establishing the Baroque vocal style. The works by Handel and Telemann define the most refined acheivements at the close of the Baroque era. Bridging the these extremes is a sonata by Corbett.