NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY’S JORDAN HALL • THURSDAY, JUNE 12 • 8PM
Rivers of Splendor
Handel’s & Telemann’s Water Music
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
Robert Mealy, Orchestra Director
Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière & Hubert Hazebroucq, dancers
The Water Music (1717) George Frideric Handel Suite in F major, HWV 348 (1685–1759)
Adagio e staccato
Allegro — Andante — Allegro da capo
Minuet
Air
Bourrée Hornpipe Andante
Minuet
Suite in G major, HWV 350
Sarabande
Rigaudon
Menuet I & II
Gigue I & II
Hubert Hazebroucq & Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière, choreographers & dancers
INTERMISSION
The Boston Early Music Festival extends heartfelt thanks to David Halstead and Jay Santos for their leadership support of tonight’s performance by The Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra and Kenneth C. Ritchie and Paul T. Schmidt for their support of tonight’s pre-concert talk by Ellen T. Harris
Suite in D major, HWV 349
Overture (Allegro)
Alla Hornpipe
Lentement
Bourrée
Minuet
“Hamburger Ebb’ und Fluth” (Water Music, 1723)
Handel
Georg Phillip Telemann
Overture-Suite in C major, TWV 55:C3 (1681–1767)
Ouverture
Sarabande. Die Schlaffende Thetis (Thetys asleep)
Bourree. Die Erwachende Thetis (Thetys wakes up)
Loure. Der Verliebte Neptunus (Neptune in love)
Gavotte. Spielende Najaden (Naiads at play)
Harlequinade. Der Schertzende Tritonus (Triton horsing around)
Der Sturmende Aeolus (Aeolus storming around)
Menuet. Der Angenehme Zephir (Pleasant Zephyr)
Gigue. Ebbe Und Fluth (Ebb and flow)
Canarie. Die Lustigen Bots-Leute (The Jolly Boatmen)
Hubert Hazebroucq & Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière, choreographers & dancers
W Double-manual French harpsichord by Allan Winkler, Medford, Massachusetts, 1991, X after Donzelague, property of the Boston Early Music Festival.
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
Violin I
Robert Mealy, concertmaster
Julie Andrijeski
Jesse Irons
Johanna Novom
Emily Dahl Irons
Violin II
Cynthia Roberts, principal
Miloš Valent
Beth Wenstrom
Sarah Darling
Viola
Daniel Elyar, principal
Laura Jeppesen
Dagmar Valentová
Violoncello
Phoebe Carrai, principal
Jennifer Morsches
Keiran Campbell
Matt Zucker
Double Bass
Nathaniel Chase
Flute
Andrea LeBlanc
Oboe & Recorder
Kathryn Montoya, principal & recorder solos
Debra Nagy
Bassoon
Dominic Teresi, principal Allen Hamrick
Trumpet
John Thiessen, principal
Steven Marquardt
Horn
Todd Williams, principal
Nathanael Udell
Percussion
Michelle Humphreys
Harpsichord
Jörg Jacobi