Music

Four Nations Ensemble Online Concert from Pleasantville Chamber Music Society

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To members and friends of the Pleasantville Chamber Music Society:
Amid the trials of this year, we are pleased to provide a series of online concerts. We hope to see you all in person soon, but we send these virtual events until we can gather again. Check our website for details on this second concert in our series—and our next two concerts.
Four Nations Ensemble
Click HERE to watch the online concert (available starting at 8 pm on 2/14 -- and for two weeks to follow)

Pascale Beaudin, soprano
Andrew Fouts, violin
Loretta O’Sullivan, cello
Scott Pauley, lute
Andrew Appel, harpsichord and director

A Baroque Valentine’s Day Celebration: “When Love Goes Wrong”

François Couperin: 
L'art de toucher le clavecin, Prelude No. 5
François Couperin: Le Dodo ou l’amour au berceau
Barbara Strozzi: Amor Dormiglione
François Couperin: L'art de toucher le clavecin, Prelude No. 2
George Frideric Handel: Credete al mio dolo
Michael Haydn: Andante, from Divertimento in C major
Jean-Paul Egide Martini: Plaisir d’Amour
Giuseppe Tartini: Sonata X, Op. 1 for violin and continuo, “Didone Abbandonata” (Dido Abandoned)
Antonio Vivaldi: Sonata IV in B-flat major, RV 45
Louis-Nicolas Clerambault: Medeé, a cantata for soprano and instruments

For over four decades, The Four Nations Ensemble has brought together leading soloists and generational front-runners of period vocal and instrumental performance. The Ensemble presents a special Valentine’s Day celebration with a different take on the usual holiday fare, featuring love songs from the Baroque on the theme of “Love Gone Wrong.”

Through its innovative programming, Four Nations has become a leading presence on the early music scene, performing at such major houses and festivals as the Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center, the Boston Early Music Festival, and New York's Mostly Mozart Festival, among many others.

Four Nations Ensemble is led by harpsichordist and artistic director Andrew Appel, who studied at Duke University, the Royal Conservatory in Antwerp and the Juilliard School.  He has performed as recitalist at Carnegie Recital Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Music Academy of the West, the Smithsonian Institution, Italy’s Spoleto Festival and New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival, among others.

We hope you will join us for this free concert! Mark your calendar:
March 7: Manhattan String Quartet
March 28: Vent Nouveau