From Prussia with Love

OCT 10, 3:00PM (EST), FREE Online

The Hunt-Berry Duo in Recital:

Works C.F. Abel, J.C. Bach, and Beethoven

Shirley Hunt, historical violoncello

Sylvia Berry, fortepiano

Generously sponsored by St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, John Whiteside, Music Director

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

The Hunt-Berry Duo is comprised of two artists who have dedicated their careers not just to historical instruments, but to the study of late 18th and early 19th century performance practices. Shirley Hunt, hailed for her Bach playing by The Strad as “…stylish and accomplished,” recently became the first woman, the first American, and the first person of color to complete a compendium recording of J.S. Bach’s Suites and Sonatas for cello and viola da gamba. Sylvia Berry, lauded by Early Music America Magazine as “…a complete master of rhetoric, whether in driving passagework or cantabile adagios,” made a critically acclaimed recording of Haydn’s London Sonatas on an 1806 Broadwood, and has been featured as a soloist and chamber musician on a wide variety of historical keyboard instruments.

For more information about the artists, please visit their websites at www.shirleyhunt.net and www.sylviaberry.org

PROGRAM:

Carl Friedrich Abel (1723 - 1787)

Sonata in G Major WKO 147 (1782)

I. Allegro moderato

II. Adagio

III. Rondeau

Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782)

Sonata in C minor Op. 17 No. 2

I. Allegretto

II. Andante

III. Prestissimo

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

12 Variations on "See the Conqu'ring Hero Comes" from Handel’s Oratorio Judas Maccabeus, WoO 45 (1796)

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