Thu 11/11-Sun 11/14
Apollo’s Fire, Cleveland’s Baroque Orchestra, offering an intriguingly educational program for its next concert series.
In Violin Fantasy: Tracing the Path from Biber to Bach, it starts with late 17th century composer Heinrich Ignaz Biber (1644-1704) and his contemporaries Johann Pachelbel, Johann Adam Reinken and Dietrich Buxtehude and their “Stylus fantasticus,” an ornate, virtuostic early Baroque style, and looks at how it influenced Johann Sebastian Bach, who followed a generation later.
Violinist Alan Choo, soprano Rebecca Myers, mezzo-soprano Elisa Sutherland, five musician playing strings and plucked instruments, and Apollo’s Fire artistic director Jeannette Soreel on harpsichord are featured in an evening of music that includes a Buxtehude Cantata and Bach’s transcriptions of work by his influential predecessors. Choo will give a pre-concert talk an hour before each performance.
They’ll perform Thursday November 11 @ 7:30pm at Akron’s First United Methodist Church, Friday November 12 @ 7:30pm at Rocky River Presbyterian Church, and Saturday November 13 @ 8pm and Sunday November 14 @ 4pm at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights.
Tickets start at $21. Go to apollosfire.org.