The Early Moderns – Quicksilver Baroque Ensemble

The brilliant American ensemble Quicksilver — “Revered like rock stars within the early music scene” (New York Times) — performs music reflecting the music in Austria in the early Baroque period, the first great period of Viennese music.

The program features the instrumental sonatas of composers including Schmeltzer, Kerll, Rosenmüller, Fux and Weichlein. The virtuosic ensemble presents a unique sound with the combination of strings, continuo, sackbut and dulcian.

Program:

Johann Heinrich Schmeltzer (c. 1623–1680)

Sonata 7 à 5 from Sacro–profanus concentus musicus (1662)

Giovanni Legrenzi (1626–1678)

Sonata terza à 2 from La cetra, sonate a 2–4, Libro Terzo Op. 10 (1673)

Johann Caspar Kerll (1627–1693)

Sonata à tre in G minor, from the Düben Collection, Uppsala

Antonio Bertali (1605–1669)

Sonata à 3 in A minor, from the Düben Collection, Uppsala

Johann Heinrich Schmeltzer (c. 1623–1680)

Sonata à 4 “La Carolietta,” from the Kroměříž Library, 1669

Interval

Johann Rosenmüller (1617–1684)

Sonata X à 5 from Sonate à 2, 3, 4, e 5 (Nuremberg, 1682)

Johann Caspar Kerll (1627–1693)

Passacaglia variata from Toccate, Canzoni, et altre Sonate (1675)

Johann Joseph Fux (1644–1704)

Sonata à 4 in g minor, from the Kroměříž Library, 1717

Johann Kaspar Kerll (1627–1693)

Sonata à 2 in F major, from the Rost MS (Baden-Baden, c.1660)

Romanus Weichlein (1650–1706)Sonata III from Encaenia musices, Op.1 (Innsbruck, 1695)