Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 8 PM
Central Lutheran Church, 18th and Potter, Eugene

Saturday, June 15, 2013 at 2 PM
Atrium, corner of 11th and Willamette, Eugene

The members of Ensemble Primo Seicento (Doug Sears, cornetto, Kate Rogers, violin, Bodie Pfost, sacbut and Margret Gries, organ) will present a new program of early music on period instruments. This program emphasizes works that are ground breaking in terms of both style and form, and includes sonatas by Castello, canzonas by Picchi and Cavalli and sacred motets from Cesare’s Concerto Ecclesiastici. This “new music” of the seventeenth century emphasizes expressive gestures that form a kind of wordless rhetoric in performance. The two trio sonatas by Castello show this most dramatically, with sections that are like recitative. The canzonas present lively rhythms and playful conversations among the instrumental voices, and the variation forms for solo instruments take the possibilities of ornamentation to the limit. This program is full of variety and virtuosity, and will bring the character of early seventeenth century music to audiences of our time.

Admission is free. For more information, write to oregonbachcollegium@yahoo.com or call 541-683-6648.