Cameo Baroque
Cameo Baroque
Founded in 2014, Cameo Baroque — Leslie Stroud, traverso (Baroque flute); Beth Hilgartner, recorders and voice; Ernie Drown, harpsichord; and Laurie Rabut, viola da gamba — is CAF's "in-house" ensemble, and specializes in the music of the Baroque era performed on period instruments. In addition to participating in CAMEO Arts Foundation's Benefit Concert program, which underwrites benefit concerts supporting efforts as wide ranging as literacy programs, warming shelters, fuel assistance, food shelves and homeless shelters, disaster relief, solar energy, and asylum seekers, Cameo Baroque also provides, by arrangement, musical enrichment programs to schools and other institutions. Contact Beth Hilgartner (beth@cameoarts.org) for more information.
Cameo Baroque is dedicated to bringing some less well-known masterworks of the Baroque to audiences; most programs include at least one work that has been transcribed and/or arranged by Beth Hilgartner from 17th and 18th century manuscripts available online from the International Music Score Library Project (imslp.org). These editions are available to the public through Cameo Baroque Editions.
Upcoming Concerts:
All-Bach program:
JS Bach: Trios and Arias
TWO performances:
October 27 at 2 PM at the First Congregational Church in Lebanon, NH
Admission by free will offering; pay what you can afford; be as generous as you can. As with all CB concerts, everything you give goes to the stated beneficiary.
This concert is a benefit for the Open Doors Ministry, which supplies people in need with food and gas vouchers.
November 3 at 3:30 at the Latchis Theater in Brattleboro, VT
This concert is a benefit for the Windham County Humane Society.
Admission by free will offering; pay what you can afford; be as generous as you can. As with all CB concerts, everything you give goes to the stated beneficiary.
This concert is a benefit for the Open Doors Ministry, which supplies people in need with food and gas vouchers.
November 3 at 3:30 at the Latchis Theater in Brattleboro, VT
This concert is a benefit for the Windham County Humane Society.
The program...
A Concert of Trios and Arias by
J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
Trio in G Major, BWV 1038
largo - vivace - adagio - presto
This charming, brief trio was composed for the Leipzig University Collegium, which Bach led in the 1730’s. It was performed in Leipzig’s Zimmermann’s coffee house.
Bete aber, auch dabei
But you should also pray when you are awake. For your great guilt, pray for
patience from your Judge, so that he may make you free from sin, and purified.
This profoundly penitential aria is from Cantata 115, for the 22nd Sunday
after Trinity. (late fall). Probably composed in 1724.
Mein gläubiges Herze
My faithful heart, exult, sing, frolic, your Jesus is here! Hence sorrow, hence grieving.
I will simply tell you: my Jesus is near.
This playful, joyful aria from Cantata 68 was composed in 1725, for Pentecost Monday. Note the concluding trio sonata, an exceedingly rare addition to an aria.
Fantasia in a minor, BWV 904
Composed in 1724 or 1725.
Recitative, arioso and aria, from Cantata 97
Just as God has tended you faithfully as a father, so he will continue as your very best friend, until the very end. And therefore surely believe, by his sweat and toil, he will let you lack no good thing. // You are fortunate, your good fortune is not to be counted. // Pleasure, joy, prosperity and health will increase and strengthen and refresh. The eye, the breast will always have their share of sweet contentment.
This group is from Cantata 197, a cantata for a wedding, which Bach composed in 1736, from an earlier cantata.
Erfüllet, ihr himmlischen, göttlichen Flammen
Fill, you divine heavenly flames, the faithful hearts that long for you. Our souls feel the mightiest impulses of the most ardent love, and taste on earth the delights of heaven.
This aria is from Cantata 1, composed in 1725 for the Feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin. (March 25)
Trio in G, BWV 1039
Adagio - Allegro, ma non presto - Adagio e piano - presto
This much larger trio was probably composed in the late 1730’s, for the Collegium’s performance at Zimmerman’s.
Cameo Baroque is the Upper Valley’s local period instrument ensemble. Leslie Stroud, traverso - Beth Hilgartner, recorders and voice, Laurie Rabut, viola da gamba - Ernie Drown, harpsichord.
A Concert of Trios and Arias by
J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
Trio in G Major, BWV 1038
largo - vivace - adagio - presto
This charming, brief trio was composed for the Leipzig University Collegium, which Bach led in the 1730’s. It was performed in Leipzig’s Zimmermann’s coffee house.
Bete aber, auch dabei
But you should also pray when you are awake. For your great guilt, pray for
patience from your Judge, so that he may make you free from sin, and purified.
This profoundly penitential aria is from Cantata 115, for the 22nd Sunday
after Trinity. (late fall). Probably composed in 1724.
Mein gläubiges Herze
My faithful heart, exult, sing, frolic, your Jesus is here! Hence sorrow, hence grieving.
I will simply tell you: my Jesus is near.
This playful, joyful aria from Cantata 68 was composed in 1725, for Pentecost Monday. Note the concluding trio sonata, an exceedingly rare addition to an aria.
Fantasia in a minor, BWV 904
Composed in 1724 or 1725.
Recitative, arioso and aria, from Cantata 97
Just as God has tended you faithfully as a father, so he will continue as your very best friend, until the very end. And therefore surely believe, by his sweat and toil, he will let you lack no good thing. // You are fortunate, your good fortune is not to be counted. // Pleasure, joy, prosperity and health will increase and strengthen and refresh. The eye, the breast will always have their share of sweet contentment.
This group is from Cantata 197, a cantata for a wedding, which Bach composed in 1736, from an earlier cantata.
Erfüllet, ihr himmlischen, göttlichen Flammen
Fill, you divine heavenly flames, the faithful hearts that long for you. Our souls feel the mightiest impulses of the most ardent love, and taste on earth the delights of heaven.
This aria is from Cantata 1, composed in 1725 for the Feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin. (March 25)
Trio in G, BWV 1039
Adagio - Allegro, ma non presto - Adagio e piano - presto
This much larger trio was probably composed in the late 1730’s, for the Collegium’s performance at Zimmerman’s.
Cameo Baroque is the Upper Valley’s local period instrument ensemble. Leslie Stroud, traverso - Beth Hilgartner, recorders and voice, Laurie Rabut, viola da gamba - Ernie Drown, harpsichord.
Cameo Baroque goes virtual!
We have ANOTHER virtual concert available: This year's benefit for the Upper Valley Haven (so all the donation information is the same as below). The concert is "A Joyful Offering." It's divided into two parts (before and after intermission). Here are the links:
I hope you will listen and enjoy—and donate to the Upper Valley Haven.
(Older news)
You can hear/see a video of our latest concert, A Telemann Triptych, on Vimeo. It's a benefit concert for the Upper Valley Haven's 19 Days of the Valley
effort, and the funds you donate will be eligible for matching funds generously contributed by a grant from the Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation, so please be as generous as you can. You can donate through the Upper Valley Haven's website
(please leave a comment saying you are responding to the CAF benefit concert!), or by mailing a check -- made out to the Upper Valley Haven -- to us at PO Box 6, Orford, NH 03777.
Cameo Baroque Editions
The work of Beth Hilgartner, Cameo Baroque Editions are modern performing editions transcribed from 17th and 18th century manuscripts available through the International Music Score Library Project (imslp.org). A complete listing of available works, and information on how to order is available on the CB Editions page.
Cameo Baroque Editions
