On Saturday, December 8, we performed H. I. F. Biber’s
“Annunciation” partita in the Advent-themed concert Rejoice! by Milwaukee’s Ensemble Musical Offering. Our friend and colleague Phil Spray joined us
on violone, which was a real treat, since there have been few opportunities for
the three of us to play together.
However, we hope that will change in the near future. Looking ahead to the Boston Early Music Festival in June 2013, if the
Lord wills that the arrangements work out, we expect to collaborate with Phil
once again for a pair of Fringe Concerts with the theme “Biber’s Life of
Christ,” in which we will perform thirteen of the fifteen partitas on the
Mysteries of the Rosary.
