November 6 | 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
$20 – $55
Violinist SADIE FIELDS returns from Edinburgh, Scotland, to join her duo partner/pianist KEN GEE for a Guelph Musicfest ENCORE concert at the Guelph Youth Music Centre.
In 1935, the violinist Fritz Kreisler admitted something he’d hidden for decades: several “long-lost” Baroque pieces he’d been performing, including tonight’s Sicilienne et Rigaudon, supposedly “in the style of Francoeur”, were his own invention all along. His response to the outcry: “The name changes, the value remains.”
That question — what changes when we look back and remake something — runs through the whole programme. De Falla turns Spanish folksong into the concert hall; Tartini channels operatic tragedy into the violin; Vitali’s modest original becomes Romantic grandeur in Ferdinand David’s hands; Schnittke plays knowingly with Baroque forms two centuries later.
The evening closes with Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending, no longer reimagining a style, but a poem, rising above everything that came before it.
Tartini: Violin Sonata in G minor, Op. 1, No. 10, Didone abbandonata (Dido Abandoned)
de Falla: Suite Populaire
Kreisler: Sicilienne et Rigaudon
Vitali: Chaconne
Schnittke: Suite in the Old Style
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
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