Baroque Masterpieces: American Bach Soloists premieres Sound the Trumpet, featuring baroque trumpeter John Thiessen May 19, 2008

American Bach Soloists
Jeffrey Thomas, Conductor

Program:
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6
Fasch: Trumpet Concerto in D Major
Handel: Suite in D Major Mr. Handels Celebrated Water Piece
Telemann: Concerto in A Major The Frogs Suite in C Major Water Music
Torelli: Trumpet Concerto in D Major

TICKETS:$16-$42 general; $10 student/senior advance; $5 student rush at the door for all performances

BOX OFFICE: (415) 621-7900 and www.americanbach.org

Also playing:

Friday, May 16 @ 8:00pm (pre-concert lecture at 7pm)
St. Stephens Church (3 Bayview Avenue in Belvedere)

Saturday, May 17 @ 8:00pm (pre-concert lecture at 7pm)
First Congregational Church (2345 Channing Way @ Dana Street in Berkeley)

Sunday, May 18 @ 7:00pm (pre-concert lecture at 6pm)
St. Marks Lutheran Church (1111 OFarrell Street @ Franklin in San Francisco)

Baroque trumpeter John Thiessen, whose playing has been called flawless and effervescent by the Wall Street Journal, joins American Bach Soloists (ABS) to celebrate the anniversaries of two contemporaries of BachJohann Friedrich Fasch and Guiseppe Torelliwith a program of virtuoso trumpet concertos. As an added bonus, ABS will perform Georg Philipp Telemanns Water Music, a boisterous dance suite that pays homage to seafaring life in early 18th-century Hamburg. Each movement has a mythical aquatic personality: Neptune, Triton, Thetis, Aeolus, and Zephyr are brought to life in music. Bachs rousing Sixth Brandenburga virtual quadruple concerto for violas and violas da gambawill bring the season to a brilliant close.

Guest artist JOHN THIESSENs artistry has been described by the New York Times as "brilliant solo playing on a valveless trumpet"; and the San Francisco Chronicle has raved that "the blazing ceremonial music that began and ended the evening--the opening graced by John Thiessen's brilliant trumpet solo--was ardent enough to warm the bluest blood."

ABOUT AMERICAN BACH SOLOISTS: Founded in 1989, the American Bach Soloists (ABS) continue to introduce audiences to the masterworks of Bach and his contemporaries as well as little-known gems from the Baroque and early-Classical eras through historically informed performances using period instruments and leading vocal interpreters of Baroque music. Under the leadership of Co-founder and Music Director Jeffrey Thomas the ensemble has become a veritable Whos Who of early music specialists and has been called superbly musical, and a breath of fresh air.

Event submitted by Eventful.com on behalf of NEQA.