Music from the Frederick Collection
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38th Fall Season of the Historical Piano Concerts
Ashburnham Community Church,
New Dawn Arts Center, Ashburnham, MA
Sunday at 3:00 pm, 3 September 2023
Arcadia Players
baritone | |
19th-c. violin, after a late Stradivari pattern transitional bow by Louis Bégin, Montréal | |
piano by Joseph Brodmann, Vienna (ca.1800-1805) |
Auld Lang Syne
Scottish Songs (1791-92) The ploughman, Hob.XXXIa:10 * Green grow the rashes, Hob.XXXIa:8 †/8bis * Roslin castle, Hob.XXXIa:191 † Killiecrankie, Hob.XXXIa:169 † | arr. Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) |
† 300 Select Irish, Welsh, and Scottish songs in six volumes, publ. by George Thomson, Leith (1795) * 150 Scottish songs in three volumes, publ. by William Napier, London (1791) | |
Sonata in c#, Hob.XVI:36 (1775) 1. Moderato | Haydn |
Sonata in A (Nürnberg, 1765) 1. Allegro | Marianne von Martinez (1744-1812) |
Fidelity, Hob.XXVIa:30 (1794)
| Haydn |
Henry (ca. 1812)
| George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower (1778-1860) |
Violin sonata No. 5 in F, Op. 24 (1801) "Spring" 1. Allegro 2. Adagio molto espressivo 3. Scherzo Allegro molto 4. Rondo Allegro, ma non troppo | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) |
25 Scottish Songs, Op. 108 (1815-18) 3. Oh! Sweet were the hours 10. Sympathy 7. Bonnie laddie, highland laddie | arr. Beethoven |
All concerts start at 3 pm
and run without an intermission.
Arcadia Players Andrew Arceci, Artistic Director
Arcadia Players, founded in 1989 by Margaret Irwin-Brandon, is an ensemble using historically informed performance practice to explore repertoire from the Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical eras. The ensemble, in residence at the Arthur F. Kinney Center for Inter-disciplinary Renaissance Studies at UMass-Amherst, performs throughout New England.