Past Concerts – 2017/18

The Art and Craft of the Sonata – Saturday September 9, 2017
Three-part writing cultivated to its highest level: ingenious and sensuous Trio Sonatas by Bach and Handel.

Soile Stratkauskas – flute
Christi Meyers – violin
Katrina Russell – bassoon
Michael Jarvis – harpsichord & chamber organ

Programme

Bach: Trio Sonata in G major BWV 525 (transcription)
Handel: Trio Sonata in E minor Op.5 No.3
Bach: Sonata in D major BWV 528 (transcription)
Bach: Two-part Inventions No.4 & 8 (transcription)
Trio in F major BWV 1040
Handel: Trio Sonata in F Major Op.5 No.6
Bach: Trio Sonata in E Minor BWV 526 (transcription)
Handel: Passacaille from Trio Sonata in G major Op.5 No.4



Death and Transcendence – Sunday November 12, 2017
with the St John’s Chamber Singers

Sublime cantatas by J.S. Bach for the times of remembrance, and the upcoming season of Advent.

Programme
J.S. Bach: Cantata “Aus der Tiefen” BWV 131
G. P. Telemann: Aria “Wandelt in der Liebe” from Cantata TWV1:1498
Bach: Andante BWV 528/2, transcription
Bach: Choral “Jesus bleibet meine Freude” from BWV 147
D. Buxtehude: Magnificat
Bach: Cantata for first Sunday of Advent “Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland” BWV 61
Bach: Motet “O Jesu Christ, mein’s Lebens Licht” BWV 118

Victoria Baroque with St John’s Chamber Singers
David Stratkauskas, director

Soloists:
Anne van der Sloot, soprano
Alana Hayes, mezzo soprano
Kieran Foss, tenor
Nolan Kehler, tenor
Nathan McDonald, baritone

Co-presented with the Church of St John the Divine


Applausi Festivi with Kati Debretzeni leader/violin

Victoria – Friday, January 12, 2018
Nanaimo – Saturday, January 13, 2018
Saltspring Island – Sunday, January 14, 2018

A riot of fiery and virtuosic works by Italian Baroque masters, full of energy, drama, passion and drive! One of the leading baroque violinists of our time, Kati Debretzeni (UK), leads the Victoria Baroque in a varied programme of Baroque Concerti.

Applause Festivi concert rehersal video.

Programme

Vivaldi: Sinfonia for strings in G major RV 149
Locatelli: Concerto Grosso in E flat Op.7 No.6 Il Pianto d’Arianna
Vivaldi: Concerto for violin and double orchestra in D major RV 582
Vivaldi: Chamber Concerto in C major RV 88
Dall’Abacco: Concerto for two flutes and strings in E minor Op.5 No.3
Geminiani: Concerto Grosso after Corelli’s violin sonata in A major H.140
Brescianello: Chaconne in A Major

Concert Programme Notes

Performers

Kati Debretzeni
leader / violin
Christi Meyers
violin
Paul Luchkow
violin
Elyssa Lefurgey-Smith
violin
Chloe Kim
violin
Kathryn Wiebe
violin
Mieka Michaux
viola
Kirsty Money
viola
Martin Bonham
cello
Natalie Mackie
violone
Soile Stratkauskas
flute
Lana Betts
flute
Katrina Russell
bassoon
Michael Jarvis
harpsichord
Guzman Ramos
lute

Victoria Baroque in Rehersal with Kati Debretzeni – January 2013

       


Music For Passion Tide
March 28, 2018

Programme

J. S. Bach: Cantata for Palm Sunday: Himmelskönig sei willkommen BWV 182
Soloists: Zachary Windus, countertenotr; Nolan Kehler, tenor; Louis Dillon, baritone

G. B. Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
Soloists: Adriána Kalafszky soprano; Jardena Gertler-Jaffe, mezzo-soprano

J. Handl: Motet for Good Friday Ecce quomod moritur


Trumpets Shall Sound
Simon Munday, trumpet (UK)
May 18, 2018 – Victoria
May 19, 2018 – Duncan (presented by Cowichan Symphony Society)

A grand orchestral program for trumpets, horns, winds, and strings Handel, Telemann, Purcell, Biber

Programme

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767): Trumpet Concerto in D TWV51:D7

Heinrich Biber (1644-1704): Sonatae tam aris quam aulis servientes:
Sonatas No. 4 & 6

Henry Purcell (1659-1695): Instrumental Suite from Fairy Queen

Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758): Concerto in D FaWV L:D14

Fasch: Trumpet Concerto in D FaWV:LD1

Johann David Heinichen (1683-1729): Concerto for flute and oboe in G minor S238

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759): Water Music Suites in G and D  HWV 349/350

Programme Notes for May 18

Performers

Violin
Linda Melsted – Leader
Christi Meyers
Elyssa Lefurgey-Smith
Paul Luchkow
Kathryn Wiebe
Kirsty Money
Viola
Mieka Michaux
Joanna Hood
Cello
Martin Bonham
Violone
Natalie Mackie
Flute
Soile Stratkauskas
Oboe
Curtis Foster
Marea Chernoff
Bassoon
Katrina Russell
Trumpet
Simon Munday
David Michaux
Horn
Andrew Clark
Steven Denroche
Harpsichord
Michael Jarvis

Simon Munday playing Giovanni Porta’s Sinfonia for Trumpet, Strings and B.C. in D major, La Serenissima