Sound Salon (the series formerly known as Byron Schenkman & Friends) has a lovely program coming up Sunday evening: English Baroque love songs for voice, oboe, viol, and harpsichord. Sweeter than Roses (the title of the program, taken from a Henry Purcell song), presents soprano Grace Srinivasan, oboist Curtis Foster, Adaiha MacAdam-Somer on viol, and artistic director Byron Schenkman on harpsichord in music not only by Purcell and Handel but by such less-familiar figures as Elisabetta de Gambarini, John Stanley, and William Babell (all associated with Handel’s work), as well as by Thomas Arne and Ignatius Sancho, who escaped enslavement and became “a successful businessman, published author and composer, and champion for the abolition of slavery,” as Schenkman notes.
The concert is on Sunday 11 February at 7 pm at Benaroya Hall.
Program
George Frideric Handel:
Sonata in C Minor for oboe and continuo
Elisabetta de Gambarini:
“Behold and listen” from op. 2
John Stanley:
“I feel new passions rise” from op. 9
Thomas Arne:
“Come away death”
Ignatius Sancho:
The Complaint “Take, oh take, those lips away”
Hornpipe in B-flat Major
“Sweetest Bard”
Henry Purcell:
“Oh let me weep”
Suite in D Minor for harpsichord
William Babell:
Sonata no. 1 in B-flat Major for oboe and continuo
Henry Purcell:
“Sweeter than roses”
“Halcyon days”
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