ChamberMusic@CSUN Andrew McIntosh & Friends

ChamberMusic@CSUN: Andrew McIntosh & Friends

Complete Rosary Sonatas by Heinrich Biber

September 14 at 7:30 pm, Shigemi Matsumoto Recital Hall, $10 – $22

“If I were making my usual yearly list of memorable live performances, I would include Michael Tilson Thomas’s buoyant concerts at the L.A. Philharmonic, in January; the première of Salvatore Sciarrino’s enigmatically radiant opera “Venere e Adone,” in Hamburg, in May; Andrew McIntosh’s heady traversal of Heinrich Biber’s Rosary Sonatas, in Pasadena,…”

Joined by Ian Pritchard (harpsichord/organ), Maxine Eilander (baroque harp), Malachai Bandy (viola da gamba), baroque violinist Andrew McIntosh will give a rare complete performance of Heinrich Biber’s Rosary Sonatas. Composed circa 1675, these fifteen magnificent pieces evoke the entire range of human experience, from tender and sublime to outrage and triumph, and follow the story of the life of Christ as depicted in the Catholic Mysteries of the Rosary. Radically virtuosic and experimental, each sonata features a different tuning on the open strings of the violin, creating unique resonances and timbres that are matched individually to the characters portrayed in each sonata. The fifteen Rosary sonatas are divided into three sections, each lasting approximately 40 minutes: the joyful mysteries, the sorrowful mysteries, and the glorious mysteries. The performance will be presented with two intermissions.

ChamberMusic@CSUN is proudly sponsored by the Colburn Foundation and the CSUN Foundation.

Parking via Kiosks in Lot B1

TICKETS: $10 to $22