Mahan Esfahani—a highlight of the 2020–21 Cal Performances at Home streaming series—bristles at many of the conventions of historical performance, and enjoys programming Baroque works alongside contemporary compositions. Here, in addition to music by Bach and Scarlatti, he pairs three of William Byrd’s pioneering 16th-century keyboard works with a new composition by Australian composer Brett Dean. Dean’s ByrdSong Studies, for solo harpsichord with prerecorded voices, celebrates Byrd’s unique and influential style, and the transgressive mass settings Byrd wrote for Catholic services during the Protestant Reformation.
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Program Items
Byrd, after Dowland
Lachrimae Pavan
Byrd
The Bells, Fantasia MB 27
J.S. Bach
English Suite in G minor, BWV 808
Brett Dean
ByrdSong Studies (US premiere)
D. Scarlatti
Selected keyboard sonatas
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Mahan Esfahani
harpsichord