Tempesta Di Mare – The Grand Tour
Trios, duos, sonatas, and suites by Bach, Handel, Couperin, Veracini, and Weiss
Prallsville Mills
22 Risler Street (Route 29)
Stockton, NJ 08559
Chandos recording artists and international touring sensation Tempesta di Mare is named for baroque master Antonio Vivaldi’s concerto meaning “storm at sea,” a title reflecting music’s power to evoke drama. Recorder and flute virtuoso Gwyn Roberts, lutenist Richard Stone and cellist Eve Miller will take a musical trip around Baroque Europe, hitting the stylistic hot spots. The program includes two flashy recorder sonatas—from Handel’s London days and from the pen of the hotheaded Florentine composer Francesco Maria Veracini—one of the lush Concerts Royaux composed and performed in Paris by François Couperin for the entertainment of Louis XIV, a cello suite by J. S. Bach from his Cöthen period, and a solo lute suite by the Dresden composer Silvius Leopold Weiss, plus a rare collaborative composition by Bach and Weiss, improvised by the two masters at one of their meetings. “Fresh, vibrant and spontaneous, representing the perfect marriage between musical instinct and meticulous scholarship.” -Fanfare
“Off-the-grid chic factor.”
-Philadelphia Inquirer
