Early Music Vancouver Events

Bach & Tunes – Multiple Voices for One

Thursday, August 4, 2022 | 1 p.m. Christ Church Cathedral

Subscriptions: To purchase tickets to this performance as part of a subscription to 3 or more concerts and receive a 25% discount off the full ticket price, please call Early Music Vancouver’s box office at 604-732-1610 or email boxoffice@earlymusic.bc.ca. Please note the subscription discount is not eligible in combination with other discount programs or on special events Rondeau and Tea Table Miscellany.

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Artist: 2022 EMV Artist-in-Residence David Greenberg, violin

David Greenberg takes us on a musical journey that meanders between Baroque solo violin repertoire and traditional folk-style tunes. David’s rare fluency in both Baroque and Cape Breton playing styles allows him to approach each moment of music in an imaginative and deeply personal way.

The end of the Baroque era coincided with the Golden Age of Scottish fiddling, a time when rural fiddler and trained concert musician alike participated in the bloom of a national music. Soon afterwards, thousands of Scots displaced by the Highland Clearances settled on Cape Breton Island, the northeast portion of Nova Scotia, where the fiddle tradition continues to flourish.

“What I especially love about these pairings of Bach and folk tunes are the surprising things that one genre learns from the other. Unconventional musical techniques and expressive vocabulary become newly available as one world meets another. The joyful and elemental rhythmic drive of Cape Breton music meets the wondrous fantasy of Bach’s musical tapestry, creating an unfolding story that is rich and waiting to be told.”
– David Greenberg

Out of the Deep

Thursday, Aug 4, 2022 | 7:30 p.m.Christ Church Cathedral

Subscriptions: To purchase tickets to this performance as part of a subscription to 3 or more concerts and receive a 25% discount off the full ticket price, please call Early Music Vancouver’s box office at 604-732-1610 or email boxoffice@earlymusic.bc.ca. Please note the subscription discount is not eligible in combination with other discount programs or on special events Rondeau and Tea Table Miscellany.

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Artists: Chloe Kim, violin; Jonathon Adams, baritone; Marie-Nadeau Tremblay, violin; Margaret Little, viola da gamba; Lucas Harris, theorbo; Avi Stein, keyboard

Emanating from seventeenth-century Italy, music of the “stylus phantasticus” was free and extravagant, marked by an uninhibited play of the compositional imagination. This programme shows the power and creativity of the fantastical style as it was taken up in the courts and chapels of Germany and Austria, featuring the stunning instrumental virtuosity of composers like Biber and Buxtehude alongside concerted psalm settings that treat the baritone voice with equal skill and imaginativeness. Filled with moving language and some of the best of the period’s musical fancy, these ancient songs of praise and supplication continue to speak with freshness and drama today.

Bach: Four Sonatas and a Concerto

Friday, August 5, 2022 | 1 p.m.Christ Church Cathedral

Subscriptions: To purchase tickets to this performance as part of a subscription to 3 or more concerts and receive a 25% discount off the full ticket price, please call Early Music Vancouver’s box office at 604-732-1610 or email boxoffice@earlymusic.bc.ca. Please note the subscription discount is not eligible in combination with other discount programs or on special events Rondeau and Tea Table Miscellany.

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Artists: Chloe Kim, violin; Christina Mahler, cello; Avi Stein, keyboard

This program showcases the virtuosic brilliance of violinist Chloe Kim, named as one of Canada’s top 30 under 30 by CBC in 2020 when she was just 23 years old. An early reviewer of J.S. Bach’s now-famous music for unaccompanied violin wrote that it was “perhaps the greatest example in any art of the freedom and certainty with which a great master can move even when he is in chains.” This programme, by contrast, features music Bach wrote for the violin when he had left the chains behind. With the harmonic support of the harpsichord and added richness of the cello, Bach set his violin free in flights of lyricism and contrapuntal inventiveness. He also thrillingly renegotiated the usual terms of the chamber sonata, making the keyboard and violin newly equal partners. Dating from the composer’s years in Cöthen and Leipzig, these sonatas exemplify the full range—the witty ingenuity, the dazzling virtuosity, the quiet depth—of Bach’s musical craftsmanship.