Lydia Forbes, violin & Timothy Burris, Guitar
Works by Astor Piazzolla and Manuel de Falla
4 pm, 3 August
Surry Arts at the Barn, Surry, Maine
The program will feature tangos by Piazzolla and Spanish songs by Falla, arranged for the ensemble of violin and guitar. Solos by Bartok, Falla, and Fortea round out the program.
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Baroque Sounds and Echoes, with ScheckMate
Raffael Scheck, baroque and romantic cello
Timothy Burris, Baroque lute, archlute, and guitar
with special guest Adelia Scheck, cello
2:30 pm, 30 November 2025
St Luke’s Cathedral Chapel, 147 State Street Portland
ScheckMate will present a program of Baroque works along with works of other periods that contain echoes of Baroque forms and language.
Antonio Caldara and J.S. Bach both left us a large body of ensemble vocal works, both sacred and secular, that form a core of the Baroque catalog. But each also produced instrumental works of great quality, including the D major sonata by Caldara on this program. Among J.S. Bach’s signature instrumental works are six solo suites for cello, including the prelude to the first of the cello suites. Bach contemporary, lutenist Silvius Leopold Weiss produced a few ensemble works, but he is best known for his 80-plus solo sonatas for baroque lute; movements from two of the sonatas are presented here.
F.A. Kummer is unfamiliar to present-day audiences, but in his day he was the best known of a musical family prominent in 18th- and 19th-century Saxony. Concluding the program is an echo of the Baroque period in the form of Bachianas Brasileiras #5, originally a work for vocal soloist accompanied by eight celli! Among its numerous incarnations is the cello and guitar version presented this afternoon. The guitar reduction of the accompaniment is by the composer.
Tickets at the door: $15; $10 for seniors; students free.