TGIF, Mar 27, 5:30pm

Join us this Friday for a sneak peak at the Santa Fe Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble’s Holy Week Baroque Concert. The full concert will be performed in our sanctuary on March 28th and 29th. Doors to the sanctuary open at 5:15pm and the concert begins at 5:30pm. The concert is free with donations accepted.

Read more about the concerts on March 27th and 28th in the Pro Musica website catalog: Holy Week Baroque Concert. Purchase tickets for the concerts on their Tickets page.

Program

Johann Pachelbel

Suite in C Major, P. 374
Sonata — Aria — Terza — Ciaccona

Dietrich Buxtehude

Herr, wenn ich nur dich hab, BuxWV 38

Barbara Strozzi

Hor che Apollo

Antonio Vivaldi

Trio Sonata in E Minor, Op. 1, No. 2
Grave — Corrente — Giga — Gavotta

J. S. Bach

Herr so weit die Wolken gehen, BWV 171

Stephen Redfield, violin & leader

Lisa Grodin, violin
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Ezra Seltzer, cello
Deborah Dunham, violone
John Lenti, theorbo
David Solem, harpsichord & chest organ

Santa Fe Pro Musica

Since 1994, Santa Fe Pro Musica has been presenting Baroque Holy Week Concerts that offer introspective and contemplative music during this period of devotion to the Passion of Christ. Today’s program features secular music that ranges from tenderness to foreboding, and sacred music that honors Mary, venerated as the Virgin, the Queen, the Mother of Jesus, and humanized by the composer Pergolesi as the Grieving Mother.

Santa Fe Pro Musica presents Pergolesi’s complete Stabat Mater (for two singers and string ensemble) at the First Presbyterian Church this Saturday at 4pm and Sunday at 3pm. The Stabat Mater, based on one of the most powerful medieval hymns, meditates on the suffering of Mary as she stood at the cross during her son’s crucifixion. Set to music by Pergolesi when he himself was dying, this work is a breathtaking example of tone painting, and a blend of operatic and sacred music styles.