2023 Festival Programs
Bach in Mühlhausen
Wednesday, July 19th — 7:30 pm
St Francis by the Sea Episcopal Church
330 Hinckley Ridge Rd, Blue Hill
Passionate and groundbreaking cantatas and organ music by the very young J.S. Bach, along with a dramatic prelude and tender cantata about a Rose of Sharon, composed by Buxtehude, the organist he walked more than 200 miles to hear
Dietrich Buxtehude: Præludium in A major, BuxWV 151
Buxtehude: Ich bin eine Blume zu Saron, BuxWV45
Bach: Aus der Tiefen, BWV 131
Bach: Toccata in d minor, BWV 565
Martin Luther: Christ lag in Todesbanden
Bach: Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4
featuring the magnificent Karl Wilhelm tracker organ
Una festa italiana
Thursday, July 20 — 5:30 pm
David’s Folly Farm
Coastal Rd, Brooksville
Lodovico Viadana: Sinfonie musicali à 8
Adriano Banchieri: Contrapunto bestiale alla mente
Claudio Monteverdi: Tirsi e Clori
17th-century Italian madrigals, ballos and canzonas
The Baroque Café meets the Birth of the Baroque! Sip and sup as strings, voices, dulcians, trombones, cornetto, harpsichord, and lute combine forces for a festive evening of Italian stile moderno entertainment
Festival Finale: Israel in Egypt
Saturday, July 22 — 7:30pm
First Congregational Church of Blue Hill
22 Tenney Hill, Blue Hill
Handel’s colorful 1739 English-language telling of the Exodus story, featuring musical depictions of plagues of frogs, flies, and hailstones, the parting of the Red Sea, and the drowning of the Pharaoh’s horsemen and charioteers
George Frideric Handel: Israel in Egypt, HWV 54
Other Related Festival Events
Baroque Strings Master Class
Monday, July 17 — 7:00 pm
Blue Hill Town Hall Theatre
18 Union Street, Blue Hill
Baroque style and technique workshop, with Jude Ziliak and Anatole Wieck, violin. Admission free, string players interested in playing for the class may contact Blue Hill Bach for a slot
Bach’s Lunch
Wednesday, July 19 — 12 noon
Barncastle Event Barn
125 South Street, Blue Hill
A lecture/demonstration about the Festival’s programs
with organist/tenor/conductor James Kennerley and members of the ensemble
Free admission — a boxed lunch may be ordered ahead of time from Barncastle, click here
The Birth of the Baroque
Thursday, July 20 — 10:30 am
Brooksville Public Library
1 Town House Rd, Brooksville
A presentation about the transition from the Renaissance to Baroque styles in early-17th-century with harpsichordist Abraham Ross, along with members of the ensemble demonstrating sackbut, dulcian, and more of those odd early instruments
Free admission