*Obbligato*! [Works for Solo Harpsichord and Flute] features renowned Chicago harpsichordist David Schrader with flutist Jeffrey Cohan playing 18th-century music for harpsichord with flute this evening, March 27 at 7:00 PM at St. Paul's Memorial Episcopal Church in Tacoma. THE INSTRUMENTS   Johann Joachim Quantz, employed at the court of Frederick the Great and by far the most well known German flutist of the mid-18th century, designed and constructed the flute, now in the Library of Congress, of which Jeffrey Cohan plays a copy for this performance, and with which both Georg Benda and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, who were employed by Frederick, were familiar, as was Johann Sebastian Bach who visited Frederick's court in 1747. It is distinctive in a number of ways; it is at an extremely low pitch and has a separate key for both E-flat and D-sharp. OBBLIGATO   In the 18th century the harpsichordist accompanying a flutist or other solo instrumentalist generally played from a single bass line for the left hand while the right hand improvised to the harmonies. Johann Sebastian Bach was the first to compose music for harpsichord with another soloist in which the so-called “obbligato" keyboard part is fully written out for both hands, often with a distinct melody in each of the harpsichordist's hands, forming a trio with the flute.   To anyone familiar with droves of charming music for wind instruments generated by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier in less than two decades, something striking and new is clearly afoot in his Sonatas for obbligato harpsichord with flute, Opus 91, introduced and dedicated with an eloquent poem to Michel Blavet, the leading French flutist of the period. New to Boismortier and unfamiliar to most of his contemporaries, this obbligato format, with both hands fully written out for the harpsichord alongside another instrument, was first explored by J.S. Bach in the 1720's, and by Telemann shortly thereafter. Many German composers followed including Förster, Lefloth and later CPE Bach and others associated with the court of Frederick the Great in Berlin including Graun, Schaffrath and Kirnberger. In France Mondonville was the first to explore this "trio" format for two instruments, four years earlier than Boismortier's Opus 91, but it is Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Pieces de clavecin en concerts in 1741 to which Boismortier so clearly pays tribute in Opus 91 later that year. Michel Corrette was to follow shortly thereafter in 1742. In France though only Boismortier presented works specifically for flute (not violin or another instrument) with obbligato harpsichord. THE PROGRAM     —Georg Benda    Sonata in G Major     —Georg Ph. Telemann    Concert I. from VI Concerts et VI Suites             pour le Clavessin et la Traversiere. etc.", 1734     —Domenico Scarlatti    2 Sonatas in D Minor (solo harpsichord) ♫★♪ LISTEN: Hear David playing Scarlatti on an early fortepiano here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOUbbZ-zFfs     —Joseph Bodin de Boismortier    Sonate III in G Major ♫★♪ LISTEN: Hear Jeffrey playing Boismortier with Bernward Lohr here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pScGefyxJ9E     —Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach    Sonata for for Keyboard and Flute, Wq 83     —Johann Christian Bach    Sonata II in G Major, Op. 16 from Six Sonatas for the Harpsichord             or Piano-Forte with an Accompaniment for a German Flute or Violin     —Domenico Scarlatti    2 Sonatas in C (solo harpsichord)     —Johann Sebastian Bach    Sonata in B Minor, BWV 1030 DAVID SCHRADER      A performer of wide ranging interests and accomplishments, David Schrader is equally at home in front of a harpsichord, organ, piano, or fortepiano and has performed as featured soloist with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under Neeme Järvi, and with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Sir Georg Solti, Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez and Erich Leinsdorf. He has appeared with the Grant Park Symphony under Carlos Kalmar, with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, El Paso Symphony Orchestra, and with many other orchestras throughout the USA and Canada.         David Schrader has appeared at numerous music festivals throughout the USA and Europe and has performed five separate programs as featured performer at the prestigious Irving Gilmore Keyboard Festival, as the Artist of the Year at the Oulunsalo Soi Music Festival in Oulu, Finland, as harpsichord soloist with the Nagaokakyo Chamber Ensemble in a tour of Japan under Yuko Mori, as soloist with the Canadian Baroque orchestra Tafelmusik in a European tour, for the Michigan Mozartfest with Roger Norrington, and at the Ravina Festival under the direction of Nicholas McGegan performing all six of J.S. Bach’s Brandenberg Concertos.         David Schrader's numerous recordings include concerti of J.S. Bach with the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, and with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for both recordings of Sir Georg Solti's Creation, the St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244) and Messiah. He has many releases of solo repertoire including the music of J.S. Bach, Soler, Franck, Antonio Vivaldi, Dupré and Domenico Scarlatti.         A resident of Chicago, David Schrader is on the faculty of Roosevelt University, Chicago College of Performing Arts - Music Conservatory. From 1993 through 1995 he directed the Collegium Musicum at Northwestern University, and he has taught at the Music Institute of Chicago. For over thirty five years he was the organist of Chicago’s Church of the Ascension. We hope to see you soon!       ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷ SALISH SEA EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL 2023: — May 3 (La Connor) *_Not_ in Tacoma unfortunately* RESERVATIONS: please write to salishseafestival@aol.com - thanks! (also May 2 in Seattle with modern piano) • Lieder Abend: Haydn and Schubert • with Maike Albrecht (soprano) and Hans-Jürgen Schnoor (piano), on original pianos at the Skagit Early Keyboard Museum in La Conner — Monday, May 8, 2023 at 7:00 PM: • Bach I: Cantata "Ich habe genug" • with Maike Albrecht (soprano, Lübeck, Germany), Hans-Jürgen Schnoor (harpsichord, Lübeck, Germany) and Jeffrey Cohan (baroque flute) — Monday, May 22, 2023 at 7:00 PM: • Bach II: Concerti and Cantatas • with Maike Albrecht (soprano), Hans-Jürgen Schnoor (harpsichord), Jeffrey Cohan (baroque flute), Carrie Krause (violin), Elisabeth Phelps (violin), Lindsey Strand-Polyak (viola) and Annabeth Shirley (cello) — Monday, June 19, 2023 at 7:00 PM: • Italian Three-Part Canzonas (1600-1640) • with John Lenti (theorbo) and Anna Marsh (renaissance bassoon) and Jeffrey Cohan (renaissance transverse flute)       ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷  ✣  ✷    We welcome your donations ... anytime! ... at https://www.salishseafestival.org/donate . 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