Early Music Afternoons

 

 

I. Sunday, October 18, 2009

 

Musick’s Recreation: 17th-century English Music for lute and viol.
Duo Maresienne (Carol Lewis, viola da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, theorbo, Baroque lute &
Baroque guitar) perform music enjoyed in English homes during the time of Oliver Cromwell,
including works by Locke, Simpson, Jenkins, Matteis, Finger and others.

 

II. Sunday, November 29, 2009

 

L’Offrandre (The Offering): Commemorating Blancrocher’s Life and Music.
Instrumental suites by Dufault, Denis Gaultier, Froberger and Louis Couperin, composed in honor
of 17th-century French nobleman-lutenist Blancrocher, and performed by Hendrik Broekman,
harpsichord, and Olav Chris Henriksen, Baroque lute.

III. Sunday, January 17, 2010

 

The King of Denmark’s Health: Renaissance Music from the Court of Christian IV of Denmark-Norway. El Dorado Ensemble (Carol Lewis, Janet Haas, Mai-Lan Broekman, Paul Johnson & Alice Mroszczyk, violas da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, lute & cittern) performs English and Scandinavian fantasies and dances by Dowland, Borchgrevinck, Brade, Schop, Thomas Simpson, Ørn, and others.

 

IV. Sunday, February 14, 2010

 

Cantatas, Sonatas & Moral Tales: Songs and Instrumental Music from 18th-century Germany.
A Valentine’s Day concert, featuring elegant, humorous, amorous and moralistic music from the age of enlightenment, performed by Heart’s Ease (Pamela Dellal, mezzo-soprano; Olav Chris Henriksen, Baroque lute & Baroque guitar; Carol Lewis, viola da gamba) and including works by Telemann, Handel, Weiss, Beyer, Baron & C.P.E. Bach.

 

V. Sunday, April 18, 2010

 

Grand Ballet de Cour: Renaissance Music from the Court of Louis XIII.
Pamela Dellal, soprano, and El Dorado Ensemble (Carol Lewis, Janet Haas,
Mai-Lan Broekman, Paul Johnson & Alice Mroszczyk, violas da gamba;
Olav Chris Henriksen, lute), perform festive music from the era of the
Three Musketeers, with works by Moulinié, Boesset, Mesangeau, Guédron & du Caurroy.

 

All concerts take place at the Somerville Museum, One Westwood Road (at Central St.), Somerville, MA, and begin at 3:00 p.m. For further information, call (617) 666-9810. Admission is $17 for the general public, $12 for students, seniors and Museum members.

 

The Somerville Museum is supported by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural
Council and by generous contributions from the membership of the Somerville
Museum

 

twenty-first season, 2009-2010

 

"From Lewis the gamba has a quick-speaking, prismatic, sweet-sounding sound, one
that is never gritty or strained; there’s a lovely continuum of emphasis and nuance...
The contributions of Olav Chris Henriksen on the theorbo – that souped-up version of the
lute – were musically first-class as well."

The Boston Globe

 

"Henriksen shone in Alessandro Piccinini’s delightful Toccata III-Cromatica, which provided yet
more beautiful, easeful and effortless sound."

Boston Early Music News

 

"Duo Maresienne lavished great skill and enthusiasm... a wealth of prismatic, keenly-phrased playing of instruments once thought to be worthy, historic and dull."

The Boston Globe

 

"For her part, the gambist Carol Lewis offered us a brilliant demonstration of her instrument. Her technique and her musicality, her breathtaking dexterity transported us, in Marin Marais’ Grand Ballet, to a distant time, where music was not noise but elegance and discretion...The [theorbo’s]

subtle sonority, its nuances full of finesse found in Henriksen an ideal interpreter."

Centre Presse, Poitiers, France