Concert: Bach and the Baroque

Thursday, June 21, 2012 - 8PM
Scott Borg with the Boston Guitar Orchestra
Eliot Fisk and John Gibbons
Duo Sonidos (Adam Levin and William Knuth)

Fenway Center

$25 Advanced Purchase Online
$30 At the door (cash or check)
$10 Student

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Boston Guitar Orchestra
Scott Borg, conductor

Concerto for 4 Violins
G.P. Telemann (1681-1767) (Arr. Borg)

Adagio
Allegro
Grave
Allegro

Orchestral Suite No.3
J.S. Bach (1685-1750) (Arr. Borg)

Overture
Air

Sonata in G minor RV 42
Antonio Vivaldi (1675- 1741)

Andante molto
Larghetto
Allegro

Trio Sonata in C major BWV 525

Allegro
Largo
Allegro

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Eliot Fisk, guitar
John Gibbons, harpsichord

Sonata in G minor RV 42
Antonio Vivaldi (1675–1741)

Andante molto
Larghetto
Allegro

Trio Sonata in C major BWV 529

Allegro
Largo
Allegro

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Duo Sonidos
William Knuth, violin, and Adam Levin, guitar

Partita No.1 in B Minor, BWV 1002
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

Sarabande/Double
Tempo di Bouree/Double

Sonata No.2, Op.27 in A minor
Eugène Ysaÿe (1858–1931)
Transcription by Adam Levin

Prelude: “Obsession”

Handeliana (Variations on a theme by G.F. Handel)
Theme: Va Godendo from the Italian opera Xerxes
Ricardo Llorca (b. 1962)
World Premiere, dedicated to Adam Levin

Sonata No.4 in D Major Op. 1, no. 13
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
Transcription by Allen Krantz for Duo Sonidos

Affettuoso
Allegro
Larghetto
Allegro

Variations on a theme by Corelli In the style of Tartini
Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962)
Transcription by Adam Levin

Sonata No.12 in D minor, “La Follia” Op. 5, no. 12
Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713)
Transcription by Allen Krantz for Duo Sonidos

Almost everything heard tonight is in some way a transcription, yet the transfers work convincingly. The Telemann and Bach works which open the program, Vivaldi’s lute Sonata, Bach’s organ trio Sonata and the various violin works in the program of Duo Sonidos ranging from Ysaye’s Obsession (with the Bach E major violin partita Prelude) back and forth across time in works of Bach, Handel, Corelli and Fritz Kreisler show the capacity of great music to shine in new ways on various instruments. Ricardo Llorca’s Handeliana revelas in the composer’s words “a dual character, at once traditional and contemporary”. The great virtuoso violinist Fritz Kreisler’s Variations on a theme of Corelli remind us of a now famous hoax: in 1935 Kreisler finally admitted that some fourteen compositions which he had played for twenty- five years as authentic works of old masters were actually his own original re-compositions!