Fanfare Consort Concert

Will Coincide With Release

Of ‘Intimate Sonate’ CD

TRUMBULL — Fanfare Consort, performing on historically accurate instruments, will celebrate the release of The Intimate Sonate with a free concert of music from the CD on Saturday, November 4, at 8 pm, at St Stephen Church, 6948 Main Street. The musicians – including Fanfare Consort’s founder and Artistic Director, Thom Freas, on clarino (valveless baroque trumpet); Lisa Rautenberg and Amanda Burr, baroque violin (gut strings); Jane Hershey, violone (fretted bass, gut strings); and Christa Rakich, harpsichord – will present works by the Baroque composers Biber, Corbett, Corelli, Fantini, Legrenzi, Marini and Merula, including modern-day premieres of literature previously only found in original manuscript.

Fanfare Consort, described as one of “the best original instrument bandes” by Kate Remington, music director of WSHU Public Radio Group, is dedicated to the research, publication, performance and recording of literature composed prior to the 19th Century. The ensemble preserves this rich and unheard repertoire by performing modern-day premieres of manuscripts by composers who have been eclipsed by the great masters of music.

All concerts are presented on historically accurate instruments in order to heighten public awareness of an earlier style of performance. These concerts are presented as a lecture-demonstration performances that are both educational and entertaining.  Concerts include explanations of the music and a comparison of the historical instruments and their modern counterparts.

The core ensemble of clarino, baroque strings and basso continuo (chitarrone [fretted bass lute] and/or violone [fretted, gut strings], harpsichord [plucked strings], and/or positiv organ, etc.) can be enhanced with voices, baroque woodwinds (keyless and wooden), percussion and additional brass.

Of a past performance, The Washington Post has written: “Textures were wonderfully airy, instrumental colors piquant and balances between the instruments and voices judged to near perfection.”

For further information call 203-258-9103 or visit FanfareConsort.com.