Sarasa Ensemble 2019-20 Season Announcement

Sarasa Concert Season 2019-20:

Spotlight

Baroque cello bridge, Nate Tabor www.taborviolas.com

2019-20 subscriptions available starting May 18th via our website: www.sarasamusic.org/subscriptions

Sarasa Concert Season 2019-20 Music for 3 cellos: Bach and Cervetto

In our opening program, we explore the profound depth of J.S. Bach’s solo cello suites alongside the great charm and tunefulness of Giacobbe Cervetto’s trios; Cervetto was a popular 18th-century cellist who lived to the ripe age of 101.

Timothy Merton, Jennifer Morsches, Phoebe Carrai, cellos l September 21, 2019 at 8pm Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church, Cambridge l September 22, 2019 at 3.30pm, First Parish in Lexington

Dynamic Duos: Partnerships of the Baroque Works by Tartini, Vandini, Corelli, Pietro Boni, Händel, Lanzetti & Sammartini This program surveys some of the many partnerships that sprang up during the Baroque era between famous violinist-composers and their favorite cellists, producing a wealth of instrumental sonata repertoire.

Alison Bury, violin; Dick Earle, oboe; Jennifer Morsches, piccolo cello; Timothy Merton, cello; Michael Leopold, theorbo l November 30, 2019 at 8pm Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church, Cambridge l December 01, 2019 at 3.30pm, First Parish in Lexington

Viola Viola! Mozart & Brahms Viola Quintets Many classical composers seemed to prefer playing the viola in their chamber music gatherings—from Bach to Beethoven to Mozart to Schubert to Mendelssohn to Dvorak to Hindemith. This program indulges in the great instrumental combination of two violins, two violas and cello, highlighting the beauty of the middle voice.

Rodolfo Richter, Susannah Foster, violins, Jenny Stirling, Jason Fisher, violas; Timothy Merton, cello l January 18, 2020 at 8pm Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church, Cambridge l January 19, 2020 at 3.30pm, First Parish in Lexington

Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D795 (arr. for string quartet) A rare chance to hear Schubert’s astounding song cycle depicting a journeyman’s turbulent experience of unrequited love, etched by sounds of a babbling brook, a restless mill, the confident horn calls of a hunter, all captured in an arrangement for tenor and string quartet.

Frank Kelley, tenor; Christina Day Martinson, Jesse Irons, violins; Jessica Troy, viola; Jennifer Morsches, cello l March 7, 2020 at 8pm Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church, Cambridge l March 8, 2020 at 3.30pm, First Parish in Lexington

Scènes pastorales ~ Pastoral scenes

Works by Jan Nepomuk Hummel, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber & Franz Schubert Musical pastoral scenes complete our season with a performance of the beloved Trout Quintet by Schubert and a relatively unknown string trio by his close friend, Hummel.

Christina Day Martinson, violin & viola; Jenny Stirling, viola; Timothy Merton, cello, TBD, bass; Maggie Cole, fortepiano l May 16, 2020 at 8pm Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church, Cambridge l May 17, 2020 at 3.30pm, First Parish in Lexington