Barefoot Chamber Concerts (“an enterprise noted for both its quality and informality” – San Francisco Classical Voice) presents really good music in the right acoustic and without the formality of most classical music events.
Violinist David Wilson, the Bay Area’s primo Biber Wizard, brings us the third and final set (the “Glorious” Sonatas) of H. I. F. Biber’s extraordinary “Rosary Sonatas” (aka “Mystery Sonatas). His all-star continuo cast (Barbara Blaker Krumdieck, cello; and Katherine Heater, harpsichord) bring their own virtuosic abilities to the party. This concert completes the cycle: David and the team played the “Joyful Mysteries” and the “Sorrowful” Mysteries in 2017 and 2018 respectively, to tumultuous acclaim!
Biber was way ahead of Joni Mitchell in inventing radical new tunings, and although he didn’t invent as many as Ms. Mitchell, he did also invent radically new violin techniques, which apparently only he could play (that was then; David has clearly caught up with him, clearly). Prepare to be amazed.
Masks, and proof of vaccination required, and 6’ distance between audience members.