Name: From Muffat to Mason
Start: 2023-04-27T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-04-30T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Herbst Theater

Organization

Conductor

Richard Egarr

Singer

Soprano

Maya Kherani

Nola Richardson

Countertenor

Siman Chung

Reginald Mobley

Tenor

Spencer Britten

James Reese

Bass-baritone

Cody Quattlebaum

Jonathan Woody

Others

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale

From Muffat to Mason

Berkeley

United States

Stanford

San Francisco

Herbst Theater

Public

Concert

Approved

From Muffat to Mason: Concert Various

It’s easy to forget now, when the music seems so familiar, that composers throughout history have been innovators, producing music that startled, confounded and even shocked audiences of their day. So it’s entirely natural that one of the “disruptors” of 21st century classical music, Mason Bates, rubs shoulders with Franz Biber, Georg Muffat, and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer in this program. Known for his compositions which bring together the worlds of orchestral music and electronics, Mason’s new work for us is sure to be an unmissable opener to these concerts.

Muffat shared Mason’s love of combining unlikely bedfellows, known for combining contrasted national musical styles. In these season-closing concerts we hear his celebratory Mass, together with a selection of rich and multi-layered Sonatas by Biber and a wrenching lament for strings and continuo by Schmelzer.

English

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Cast