Stephan Moss, Music for Virginal, with Rachel Huang, violin



Moss performs on the virginal, a small but versatile sixteenth-century keyboard, often associated with intimate settings and a great variety of rarely heard music of the early Baroque.



Sunday, March 2, 2025, 7 p.m.
Drinkward Recital Hall



A partial view of an old, decorative musical instrument with a keyboard. Virginal, Italian, 1540, wood, parchment, ivory, paint, 6 1/4 x 55 x 18 1/4 inches (not including case). The Metropolital Museum of Art. © Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.



PROGRAM



Pavana Bray and Galiarda
William Byrd
(ca. 1540-1623)


The Carman’s Whistle 
Byrd


Barafostus Dream
Thomas Tomkins
(1572-1656)


... for the Virginal (1979)
Jim Fox
(1953-)


The Fall of the Leafe
Martin Peerson
(c. 1571/73-1651)


Mein Junges Leben hat ein Endt
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
(1562-1621)

INTERMISSION


Mystery Sonata 7, F major “The Scourging”
      Allamanda and variation
      Sarabanda and 3 variatio
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
(1644-1704)

with Rachel Huang, violin
 

Pavana
Orlando Gibbons
(1583-1625)


Praeludium and Gloria tibi Trinitas [In Nomine]
John Bull
(1562/3-1623)


The Bells
Byrd


The Kings Hunt
Bull




HMC is deeply grateful for the generous support that created The Ken Stevens ’61 Founding Class Concert Series.


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