(Featuring Daniel Swenberg, Adam Cockerham, and Dušan Balarin Renaissance and baroque lutes and baroque guitars) music by: Piccinini, Cazzati, Purcell, Corbetta, Matteis, and Radolt. (Featuring Daniel Swenberg, Adam Cockerham, and Dušan Balarin Renaissance and baroque lutes and baroque guitars) music by: Piccinini, Cazzati, Purcell, Corbetta, Matteis, and Radolt. III
The Most Faithful Companion: Lute and Guitar Trios from the 17th Century
(Please note that this concert takes the place of the originally scheduled February 28th concert and the time and day of the week are different.)
Featuring Daniel Swenberg, Adam Cockerham, and Dušan Balarin on Renaissance and Baroque lutes
and Baroque guitars.
Friday, March 6 at 7:30 pm
Unitarian Universalist Congregation Princeton 50 Cherry Hill Road - Off Hwy. 206
Admission is free,
though donations are gratefully accepted.
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About the Program
Daniel Swenberg will be joined by Adam Cockerham and Dušan Balarin, performing on Renaissance and Baroque lutes and Baroque guitars of various sizes and tunings. The trio will perform rarely heard ensembles by Dowland, Purcell, Piccinini, Cazzati, Corbetta, and Radolt. The program opens with Renaissance lutes in five trios by John Dowland in observance of the 400th anniversary of his death, followed by a canzona by Piccinini, a brilliant example of a late contrapuntal work for three lutes in different sizes and tunings. Baroque lutes and guitar will be featured in Mauricio Cazzati’s Balletto Quarto and in a suite from Nicola Matteis’s False Consonances of Music a didactic work for the wildly fashionable baroque guitar. Also performed by lutes and guitar are tunes from Henry Purcell’s Dioclesian found in Princess Anne guitar book, including Purcell’s famed Two Parts on a Ground. Francesco Corbetta was an Italian guitar virtuoso who later lived in London and Paris, serving both Charles II and Louis XIV. His Sinfonia à 2 and an occasional piece entitled The Trumpets and Drums of the Siege of Maastricht will be performed by guitars. The program continues with works for three Baroque lutes, including the North American premiere of Ludwig Von Radolt’s Concerto I in D Minor from his 1701 work, The Most Faithful Companion, an extraordinary collection of ensembles and concertos for the baroque lute. For years, this collection was thought to be incomplete. Only recently have the missing volumes been recovered. Concluding the concerts is Georg Muffat’s magnificent Passacaglia in G, utilizing Radolt’s ensemble, based on a late 17th-century setting for the first lute.
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Daniel Swenberg will be joined by Adam Cockerham and Dušan Balarin, performing on Renaissance and Baroque lutes and Baroque guitars of various sizes and tunings. The trio will perform rarely heard ensembles by Dowland, Purcell, Piccinini, Cazzati, Corbetta, and Radolt. The program opens with Renaissance lutes in five trios by John Dowland in observance of the 400 th anniversary of his death, followed by a canzona by Piccinini, a brilliant example of a late contrapuntal work for three lutes in different sizes and tunings. Baroque lutes and guitar will be featured in Mauricio Cazzati’s Balletto Quarto and in a suite from Nicola Matteis’s False Consonances of Music a didactic work for the wildly fashionable baroque guitar. Also performed by lutes and guitar are tunes from Henry Purcell’s Dioclesian found in Princess Anne guitar book, including Purcell’s famed Two Parts on a Ground. Francesco Corbetta was an Italian guitar virtuoso who later lived in London and Paris, serving both Charles II and Louis XIV. His Sinfonia à 2 and an occasional piece entitled The Trumpets and Drums of the Siege of Maastricht will be performed by guitars. The program continues with works for three Baroque lutes, including the North American premiere of Ludwig Von Radolt’s Concerto I in D Minor from his 1701 work, The Most Faithful Companion, an extraordinary collection of ensembles and concertos for the baroque lute. For years, this collection was thought to be incomplete. Only recently have the missing volumes been recovered. Concluding the concerts is Georg Muffat’s magnificent Passacaglia in G, utilizing Radolt’s ensemble, based on a late 17th-century setting for the first lute.
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Meet Dryden's Artistic Director,
Lutenist Daniel Swenberg
Daniel Swenberg plays a wide variety of lutes and guitars: baroque, renaissance, classical/romantic--small, medium, and large. He has been a regular with the Dryden Ensemble for over 15 years. Daniel schleps instruments throughout North America and Europe to play with a wide range of ensembles: the Metropolitan Operan, Carmel Bach Festival, Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations, on Broadway with Mark Rylance in Farinelli and the King, Mr. Jones & the Engines of Destruction, Opera Atelier/Tafelmusik, The New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Catacoustic Ensemble, Handel & Haydn, and many others. He has also accompanied Renee Fleming and Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall.
Daniel is on faculty at Juilliard’s Historical Performance program. He received awards from the Belgian American Educational Foundation (2000) for a study of 18th century chamber music for the lute, and a Fulbright Scholarship (1997) to study in Bremen, Germany. His programing integrates and emphasizes music with the history, sciences, economics, politics, and broader culture of its time—from Weiss to vice.
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