AGAVE
Sunday, June 14th, 7:30pm
Join GRAMMY-nominated AGAVE for Smash Hits of the ’80s and ’90s. We all love the ’80s, right? Big hair, flashy clothes, and all the hottest dance moves… We’re talking the 1680s, of course, and the big hair was usually a powdered wig. But the music was just as totally awesome! AGAVE, an “energized, free-spirited…group of Californian Virtuosi” (Early Music America) presents a program of some of the biggest hits of two decades that changed baroque music, from a rocking four part sonata by Corelli, to the brilliant songbird Elisabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, the dazzling dance rhythms of Purcell, and the mind-blowing creativity and virtuosity of Georg Muffat and Heinrich Biber.
Program:
Nuns Just Wanna Have Fun (Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704), Sonata Quarta, Op. 16 #4)
Songbird (Elisabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729), Trio Sonata No. 3 in D major)
Grunge Metal (Georg Muffat (1653-1704), Sonata No. 2 from Armonico Tributo, ‘Dolce Somnium’)
Stadium Rock (Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713), Sonata a Quattro, WoO 4)
Let’s Dance (Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Three Parts Upon a Ground)
Heavy Metal (Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704), Harmonia artificioso-ariosa, Partia I)
AGAVE is:
Aaron Westman, Anna Washburn, and Katherine Kyme, violins
Katherine Kyme, viola
William Skeen, viola da gamba
Henry Lebedinsky, harpsichord
Kevin Cooper, theorbo and guitar
This concert is presented as part of the Berkeley Early Music Festival “Fringe”. Find out more about the festival here.