Early Music Vancouver kicks off Digital Concert Series September 30
Pacific Baroque Orchestra launches the new program with orchestral suites
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Early Music Vancouver presents the Pacific Baroque Orchestra as part of its Digital Concert Hall on September 30 at 7:30 p.m. via earlymusic.bc.ca
EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER won’t be staging a live season this pandemic year. But the good news for fans of all things Baroque is that it will be launching a virtual season of more than 20 high-def online concerts.
They’ll be released on a biweekly basis until June 2021.
Author and former CBC host Bill Richardson will host in-depth interviews with the artists, who will perform in hallowed halls from the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts to Christ Church Cathedral, plus the more intimate Orpheum Annex.
The first concert on Wednesday features EMV’s own sparkling Pacific Baroque Orchestra, with music director Alexander Weimann on harpsichord, along with his polished team of string players.
The program? Uplifting German dance suites from the 18th century, from composers Dietrich Becker, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, and Georg Muffat, who blended the French and Italian styles of the day. The ensemble compares the exquisite pieces to "a bouquet with its many colors and shapes of flowers". In other words, a blissful escape into Baroque beauty.
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