If you are a fan of early music, and have not yet experienced the harpsichord music of Michael Sponseller, we are most happy to relieve you of this gap in your musical experience! Michael’s work graces the Aston Magna Music Festival each summer; he joins the Aston Magna Chamber Players on Sunday, Oct. 28 at 4 p.m., for a special autumn afternoon concert in the Berkshires, at Saint James Place.
Here’s a bit about Michael. He appears regularly on harpsichord and continuo organist with several of American’s finest baroque orchestras and ensembles, such as Bach Collegium San Diego, Les Délices, Tragicomedia, and the Boston Early Music Festival orchestra and can heard on many recordings from Delos, Centaur, Eclectra, and Naxos et al.
At home, Michael is a regular presence at Boston’s Emmanuel Music, with more than 100 sacred cantatas in his performing history. His harpsichord and continuo recordings include a diverse list of composers, including Bach, Handel, Rameau, Praetorius and Laurenti, and he receives excellent reviews throughout the world. Early Musica America Magazine has said, of his performance of the Bach Concertos, “His well-proportioned elegance carries the day quite stylishly.” He currently is artistic director for Ensemble Florilege, he has served on the faculty at Longy School of Music and at Oberlin’s Baroque Performance Institute.
Here Michael here, performing on a harpsichord at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
So, join the Aston Magna Chamber Players for a lovely Berkshire afternoon of sonatas on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2018, at 4 p.m., at Saint James Place in Great Barrington, performed on period instruments by a quartet of gifted musicians: Daniel Stepner, baroque violin; Laura Jeppesen, viola da gamba, and Christopher Krueger, flute.
The program includes sonatas by Johann Sebastian Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude, and J.S. Bach’s “A Musical Offering.”
A pre-concert talk takes place at 3, with Aston Magna Artistic Director Daniel Stepner.
TICKETS
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