The Bay Area Lute Pages
A Northern California Chapter of the Lute Society of America
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| Description: | "The Lyre of Orpheus" Renaissance and baroque solo lute music, including pretty musical treasures for Spanish "vihuela de mano." This experienced performer will recreate some of the most beautiful gems from Spanish and Italian Renaissance, emanated from the sonority of the eleven strings of his “vihuela de mano.” According to Miguel de Fuenllana (1554), the mythical Orpheus “who made Pluto´s ministers stop his justice with the softness of his vihuela” personifies the idea of the classical Greek-Roman ideal that vihuela players carried out in Iberia in the XV and XVI centuries. Works from composers such as Luys Milán, Luys de Narváez, Alonso Mudarra, and Vincenzo Capirola, as well as improvisations according to the style of the period, will make up the repertoire of the first part of the concert. The concert will be completed with a second part devoted to the king of early plucked instruments, the baroque lute, with transcriptions and original works for it, which was considered to be “The French national instrument”.This second part will begin with a work by Francoise Couperin original for keyboard, followed by some sacred repertoire, like the one composed for the violin by the Austrian Heinrich Ignaz Franz Von Biber to describe the Rosario mysteries of the catholic liturgy. The concert will finish with music of the German Sylvious Leopold Weiss, a contemporary composer with J.S. Bach who knew how to extract all its expressive capacity from the baroque lute withmoments which have no reason to be envious of the style of the “Singer of Leipzig.” Pedro Jesús Gómez, a guitar player with a brilliant international career, has specialized in the performing and style of Spanish Renaissance music and has performed in countries such as England, Brazil, Greece, Holland, Italy, and Argentina, broadcasting for radio and television in Europe and America. Winner of several international competitions, his recordings cover different fields: from chamber music to the soloist repertoire, with early and contemporary music. Thursday, June 8, 5:00 - 6:00 pm Trinity Chapel, 2320 Dana Street, Berkeley Tickets: $15/$12/$10 Information: www.webpedrojesus.com, 510-549-3864, 415-641-8695 |
| Date: | Thursday, June 8, 2006 |
| Time: | 5:00pm-6:00pm PDT |
| Duration: | 1 hour |
| Priority: | 3-High |
| Access: | Public |
| Created by: | Andrew Hartig |
| Updated: | Monday, May 29, 2006 6:00am PDT |
To add an event, please send your concert announcement to bay-area-lute@theaterofmusic.com.