INVITATION: Sunday, August 27, 3 PM – Colossal Baroque concert

WHEN & WHERE:
Sunday, August 27 at 3 P. M. at St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church
2200 San Joaquin Hills Road, Newport Beach, CA 92600

PROGRAM:
Muffat: Missa in labore requies
Biber: Sonata IV. à cinque from Sonatæ tam auris quam aulis servientes
Biber’s celebrated Hic est panis for basso profundo & scordatura violin
Megerle: Justus germinabit sicut lilium

TICKETS:
More information can be found at MusicaTransalpina.org/Colossal, and tickets can be reserved directly at Colossal.BrownPaperTickets.com

ARTISTS:
Musica Transalpina baroque ensemble

ABOUT THIS PERFORMANCE:
Musica Transalpina, a new, professional ensemble dedicated to baroque sacred music, is proud to present its first public concert of large-scale choral works in the so-called “Colossal Baroque” style.  Italian musical influences blended with the imperial culture of the Holy Roman Empire to create this grandiose expression of ecclesiastical music in the seventeenth century, and it was brought to the height of its perfection by the Bohemian composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, who worked at the episcopal courts of Kroměříž and Salzburg.

Performances of this sumptuous style are seldom heard in the United States, and for most listeners this performance amounts to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience the splendid court culture of the seventeenth century.  Musica Transalpina is dedicated to bringing these rare but magnificent compositions to the United States, and to bring attention to composers unknown to the American public such as Antonio Bertali, Giovanni Valentini, Adam Michna z Otradovic, and Heinrich Biber.