Baroque Music Festival, Corona del Mar

Winter Musicale Gala Concert & Fundraising Dinner

Sunday, January 29, 5:00PM 

A Gala benefiting the 2023 Festival Season - a Bach-Fest

Treat yourself to our Winter Musicale gala concert "Triple Trebles: A Trio of Baroque Birds" followed by a fully catered dinner with handpicked wines. This one-hour afternoon performance dives into the universal humanity of music by J.S. Bach plus virtuosic 17th-century Italian chamber music for cornetto, recorder and violin. Enjoy world class baroque specialists in a program curated by Festival artistic director, violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock. Join us for this salve for the spirit while raising essential funds for the 43rd Baroque Music Festival, Corona del Mar, June 18-25.

RSVP with your online donation payment ($250 per person minimum) by January 22.

Concert underwritten by the generous support of Thomas A. & Bonnie J. Pridonoff

St. Mark Presbyterian Church, 2200 San Joaquin Hills Rd, Newport Beach, CA 92660

Program highlights:

G. Gabrieli: Sonata XXI for three treble instruments and continuo 

Marini: ‘La Foscarina’ for violin, cornetto and continuo 

Uccellini: ‘La Luciminia contenta’ for violin and continuo & ‘La Bergamasca’ Chaconne

Turini: ‘E tanto tempo hormai’ for two recorders and continuo

Bach’s Corner 

Prelude BWV 999, arranged for solo harp

Allemande for solo organ, BWV 590

Sarabande from the second solo cello suite, BWV 1008

Adagio e dolce for recorder, violin and continuo from the third organ trio, BWV 527 

Alexandra Opsahl, cornetto & recorder

Judith Linsenberg, recorder

Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin

Eva Lymenstull, cello

Maxine Eilander, baroque harp

Ian Pritchard, organ & virginals

https://bmf-cdm.org/winter-musicale-2023/