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18 July — 6 September 2025

Cycle «Change III» 2023 — 2025

Maurice Steger

Thursday 2 September 2021, Saanen Church

Chamber music

Thursday 2 September 2021
7.30 pm, Saanen Church

In the continuation of his great project “Mr Handel's Dinner” (recorded by Harmonia Mundi in 2019), the Zurich recorder player Maurice Steger, through a programme especially thought out for the Festival, is looking forward not only to paying tribute to a city – London – which has done a great deal for the development of his instrument, but also to share the stage with one of the most famous Baroque violinists of today's scene, the British Rachel Podger. During her stay in the area, she will share her vast experience with the students of the Gstaad Baroque Academy, she who, in addition to attending the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, is a renowned teacher on both sides of the Atlantic, from the Guildhall to Juilliard School, as well as in Bremen and Innsbruck.

 

Gstaad Academy

Rachel Podger, Baroque Violin
Maurice Steger, Baroque Recorder
diego ares, Harpischord
David Bergmüller, Archlute & Baroque Guitar
Christoph Dangel, Baroque Cello

English Ayres and pleasures 
Nicola Matteis (1650-1714) 
Aria amorosa | Ayre | Diverse Bizzarrie sopra la vecchia Sarabanda ò pur Ciaccona 
Christopher Simpson (ca. 1602-1669) / Thomas Baltzar (ca. 1630-1663) 
“John come kiss me now” 
Robert Johnson (ca. 1583-1633) 
Ayre Cupararee 
Nicola Matteis (1650-1714) 
Ground after the Scotch Humour 
Pietro Castrucci (1679-1952) 
Sonata in D Minor for Recorder and Basso continuo (after the Sonata, Op. 5 No. 7 by Arcangelo Corelli) 
Georg Friedrich Handel (1685-1759) / William Babell (ca. 1690-1723) 
“Lascia ch'io pianga” (arr. for solo harpsichord) 
Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762) 
Sonata in A Minor for Violin and Basso continuo, Op. 4 No. 5 
Henry Purcell (1659-1695) 
Chaconne from the opera “Dioclesan”, Z. 627 
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) 
Sonata No. 1 in D Minor for Cello and Basso continuo 
Traditional 
“Dumbarton's Drums” 
“Bonnie Christie” 
Georg Friedrich Handel (1685-1759) 
Sonata in G Minor for Recorder, Violin and Basso continuo, Op. 2 No. 2 
 90'
CHF 125/105/65/40