The period-instrument ensemble Boston Baroque has announced “New Directions: Chamber Music from the Baroque to Carter and Pearlman,” a new chamber music series for the 2012-13 season, featuring baroque and contemporary music played on both baroque and modern instruments. The four-program series, led by Boston Baroque conductor and founder Martin Pearlman, will include Pearlman’s own work-in-progress Finnegans Wake—An Operoar, covering the full text of the first seven pages of the James Joyce novel; pieces by Luciano Berio and György Ligeti on a program that also includes works by Handel, Corelli, and Heinrich Bach; Elliott Carter in a program along with Couperin, Corelli, and Castello; and Heinrich Biber’s Mystery Sonatas, Part II, with baroque violinist Christina Day Martinson performing on multiple violins with a different tuning for each sonata.
Posted September 26, 2012
