Pacific Baroque Festival Victoria Canada

On November 1, be part of an exclusive audience enjoying the music of Fretwork, the world’s leading viol consort. It is a rare occasion that a group of this worldly reputation visits Victoria… even rarer that any audience has the opportunity to experience their music in an intimate setting… only 150 persons will enjoy this concert. Do not miss this once in a lifetime event!

Monday Nov 1 8 PM
Christ Church Cathedral Chapel of New Jerusalem
Quadra & Burdett, Victoria, BC

Tickets: $50 Adults; $40 Seniors/Students

Order tickets by phone: 250 472.7644
Purchase tickets on-line

Or at:

Ivy’s Bookstore (Oak Bay), Munro’s Books (Victoria)
Cadboro Bay Book Co., Christ Church Cathedral Office 930 Burdett

Fretwork - Nov. 1st

Fretwork have commissioned Orlando Gough to create a journey in sound that charts Drake’s remarkable feat. Music from Elizabethan England is interwoven seamlessly into a through-composed work reflecting the music Drake would have encountered on his journey. When Drake set sail from Plymouth on 15th November 1577, he took with him four viol players: SimonWood, Thomas Meckes, Richard Clarke and ‘George’, who almost certainly had no idea they were about to embark on such an epic journey. The viols played music to accompany Drake’s private worship – he prayed for over an hour each day, and sang hymns to the viols; they also entertained him while he ate and used their pacific nature as a diplomatic tool to impress the natives of South America, and in Java, where the king returned the favour: “Raia Donan coming aboard us, in requital of our musick was made to him, presented our generall with his country musick, which though it were of a very strange kind, yet was pleasant and delightful”

At every festival, special moments are captured, and which we like to share.

Victoria Children's Choir

2010 is no exception with some sublime photographs of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra & The Victoria Children’s Choir in rehearsal, and concert tributes to the artists and festival organizers.

Pacific Baroque Festival Photographs – Full Slide Show

Pacific Baroque Festival Program 2010

Biographies of the Pacific Baroque Festival Artists

• “A Morning Musical Offering”
Thursday February 4th 2010 – 11 am

Chamber concert with Marc Destrubé (violin), Natalie Mackie (violone), Elissa Poole (flute), Colin Tilney (harpsichord)

Dietrich BUXTEHUDE - Sonata No. 2 in G major, Op. 1, BuxWV 253, for violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord

J.S. BACH – Sonata sopr’il Soggetto Reale  (Trio Sonata from The Musical Offering) BWV 1079

Georg TELEMANN – ‘Paris’ Quartet No. 6 in e minor, from Nouveaux quatuors en six suites, TV 43, for flute, violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord

• Two Giants of German Baroque Organ Music
Thursday February 4th 2010 – 8 pm

Bernard Foccroulle, organ

Dietrich BUXTEHUDE (1637-1707)

Toccata in F, BuxWV156

Durch Adam’s Fall ist ganz verderbt, BuxWV 183

Passaglia in d moll, BuxWV 161

Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BuxWV 188 (Choralfantasie)

Praeludium in D, BuxWV 139

Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750)

Durch Adam’s Fall ist ganz verderbt, BWV 637

Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 604

Trio Sonata in C, BWV 529

Fantasia und Fuge g-moll, BWV 542

• “Bach’s Long Walk”
Friday February 5th 2010 – 8 pm

Pacific Baroque Festival Ensemble

Anne Grimm – soprano

Marc Destrubé – director and violin solo

Johann Sebastian BACH – 4 fugues in 4 voices from The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080

Dietrich BUXTEHUDE – Cantata O dulcis Jesu, for soprano, two violins and continuo, BuxWV  83

Georg TELEMANN – Concerto in G Major for Four Violins, Twv 40:201

Johann Sebastian BACH – Concerto for violin, strings and continuo in a minor, BWV  1041

Johann Sebastian BACH – Cantata for soprano, oboe and strings, Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten, BWV 202 (Wedding Cantata)

• “Telemann Goes to School”
Saturday February 6th 2010 – 8 pm

Pacific Baroque Festival Orchestra, Victoria Children’s Choir

Marc Destrubé – director Artist Biographies

Georg TELEMANN – Suite for strings and continuo in G Major, La Bizarre, TWV  55:G2

Dietrich BUXTEHUDE – Sonata in G for two violins, viola da gamba and basso continuo, BuxWV 271

Georg TELEMANN – ‘Der Schulmeister’ cantata for children’s choir, bass and strings, TWV 20:57

Johann Sebastian BACH- 3 Sinfonias

Johann Sebastian BACH – Concerto for oboe and violin in c minor, BWV  1060

Johann Sebastian BACH – Motet for double choir, Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf, BWV 226

• Choral Vespers and Abendmusik
Sunday February 7th 2010 – 4:30 pm

Pacific Baroque Orchestra St Christopher Singers

Johann Sebastian BACH “Jesus, bleibet meine Freude” (from Cantata No. 147: “Herz und Mund und Tat und Lieben” BWV 147)

attributed to Dietrich BUXTEHUDE “Magnificat”