The Galileo Project: Music of the Spheres
Wed Jan 21 at 7pm
Thurs – Sat January 22 – 24 at 8pm
Sun January 25 at 3:30pm
Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre
For tickets by phone, call the Tafelmusik Box Office at 416-964-6337.
Full Concert Programme:
| The Harmony of the Spheres I | |
Antonio Vivaldi |
Concerto for 2 violins in A Major, op. 3, no. 5 |
| Music from Phaeton | |
| Jean-Baptiste Lully | Ouverture Suite des quatre saisons (Dances for the four seasons) Entrée des furies (Entrance of the furies) Chaconne |
| Music from the time of Galileo | |
| Claudio Monteverdi | Ritornello, from Orfeo |
| C. Monteverdi | Ciaccona, after Zefro torna |
| Tarquinio Merula | Ciccaona |
| Michelangelo Galilei | Toccata for solo lute, from Il primo libro d’intavolatura di liuto |
| Biagio Marini | Passacglia |
| C. Monteverdi | Moresca, from Orfeo |
| The Dresden Festival of the Planets | |
| Jean-Philippe Rameau | Entrée de Jupiter (Entrance of Jupiter), from Hippolyte et Aricie |
| George Frideric Handel | Allegro, from Concerto grosso in D Major, op. 3 no. 6 |
| J-P. Rameau | Entrée de Venus (Entrance of Venus) from Les surprises de l’Amour |
G.P. Telemann |
Allegro, from Concerto for 4 violins in D Major |
| Jan Dismas Zelenka | Adagio ma non troppo, from Sonata in F Major ZWV 181/1 |
| J-P. Rameau | Entrée de Mercure (Entrance of Mercury) from Platée |
| J-B. Lully | Air pour les Suivants de Saturne (Air for the followers of Saturn) from Phaeton |
| Silvius Leopold Weiss | Allegro, from Concerto for lute in C Major |
| Anonymous, 18th century | The Astronomical Drinking Song |
| The Harmony of the Spheres II | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | Sinfonia “Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern” (How brightly shines the morning star), after BWV 1 |
| J.S. Bach | Sinfonia, after BWV 29 |