THE MARVELOUS MR. MEUSEL Will Be Performed By The Dryden Ensemble This Month
The performance is on on Sunday, March 16 at 4:00 p.m. at the Princeton Theological Seminary Chapel.
The Dryden Ensemble will return with its new artistic director, Daniel Swenberg, in a program entitled "En Concert: The Marvelous Mr. Meusel" on Sunday, March 16 at 4:00 p.m. at the Princeton Theological Seminary Chapel, 64 Mercer Street, Princeton. Admission is free, though donations will be gratefully accepted.
In the early 18th-century, lute and harpsichord players would often arrange and expand their solo repertoire for an ensemble. This genre or approach to repertoire is known as playing “En Concert”. The melody lines of a plucked-instrument solo piece would be doubled by a violin, oboe, or flute and the bass line would be reinforced by a cello or viola da gamba. En Concert: or The Marvelous Mr. Meusel explores this “en concert” approach, featuring music from the court of Louis XIV (Couperin and DeVisée), the salons of London (Dieupart), and the palaces of Germany (Meusel and Bach). Gottfried Meusel was the lutenist at the court of Gotha. While he enjoyed the esteem of his colleagues, his early death resulted in his name being lost to history. His charming concerti for lute, flute, gamba, and continuo will get their American premiers. Virtuoso flute player Taya König-Tarasevich joins Dryden Ensemble players Daniel Swenberg, lute, Lisa Terry, bass viol, and Webb Wiggins, harpsichord.
The season continues at the Princeton Theological Seminary Chapel on Saturday, April 19 at 4 p.m. when the ensemble presents "Baroque Passion: Music for Holy Week," featuring soprano Clara Rottsolk in sacred arias by Bach and Ferrandini for obbligato violas da gamba and lute.
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