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Pegasus Early Music unwraps Baroque Christmas gifts 12/23 @8pm

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PERFORMANCE UPSTATE Program 2404 December 23, 2024

Hour 1

Philipp Friedrich Böddecker: Natus est Jesus
Tenor Jeffrey Thompson | Liza Malamut, Ben David Aronson, Garrett Lahr, trombones | Naomi Gregory, organ | J. Tracy Mortimore, violone | and Deb Fox, theorbo and artistic director | Pegasus Early Music | Downtown United Presbyterian Church, Rochester, NY | December 3, 2023 | Carl Pultz, Alembic Productions

Edvard Grieg: Holberg Suite
ECCO | Skaneateles Festival | First Presbyterian Church, Skaneateles, NY | August 10, 2023 | James LaRonde, engineer

Claudio Monteverdi: Laudate Dominum
Bass Andrew Padgett | Naomi Gregory, organ | J. Tracy Mortimore, violone | and Deb Fox, theorbo and artistic director | Pegasus Early Music | Downtown United Presbyterian Church, Rochester, NY | December 3, 2023 | Carl Pultz, Alembic Productions

Maria Xaviera Peruchona: Ad gaudia, ad iubila: mottetto del Santo Natale
Soprano Laura Heimes | Naomi Gregory, organ | J. Tracy Mortimore, violone | and Deb Fox, theorbo and artistic director | Pegasus Early Music | Downtown United Presbyterian Church, Rochester, NY | December 3, 2023 | Carl Pultz, Alembic Productions

Dietrich Buxtehude: Das newgebohren Kindelein: Weinachtskantate
Soprano Laura Heimes | Mezzo-soprano Luthien Brackett | Tenor Jeffrey Thompson | Bass Andrew Padgett | Naomi Gregory, organ | J. Tracy Mortimore, violone | and Deb Fox, theorbo and artistic director | Pegasus Early Music | Downtown United Presbyterian Church, Rochester, NY | December 3, 2023 | Carl Pultz, Alembic Productions

Shi Hui Chen: Returning Souls: Four Short Pieces on Three Formosan Amis Legends
Geoffrey Herd, violin | Eliot Heaton, violin | Eric Wong, viola | Max Geissler, cello | Geneva Music Festival | Froelich Hall, Geneva, NY | May 27, 2023 | James LaRonde, recording engineer

Hour 2

Traditional: Nordic Folk Music
Danish String Quartet | Skaneateles Festival | First Presbyterian Church, Skaneateles, NY | July 28, 2023 | James LaRonde, engineer

Elaine Hagenberg: Song of Miriam
Concentus Women’s Chorus | Anna Atwater, Director | Haeyeun Jeun, piano | Spring 2024 | Rochester, NY | Carl Pultz, Alembic Productions

Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet, Op 20, No. 3
Danish String Quartet | Skaneateles Festival | First Presbyterian Church, Skaneateles, NY | July 28, 2023 | James LaRonde, engineer

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