Pacific MusicWorks: Baptista, Plà, Zipoli

ByBradford Werner
2020

Stephen Stubbs (baroque guitar/director) along with Tekla Cunningham (baroque violin), Christine Beckman (baroque violin), Caroline Nicolas (baroque cello), Maxine Eilander (baroque harp), Henry Lebedinsky (organ/harpsichord), Antonio Gomez (percussion), play an excerpt from their virtual release on Dec 12th, 2020 from Allegro from Trio Sonata in D minor (excerpt) by Joan Baptista (1720-1773) and José Plà (1728-1762). This comes via the Pacific MusicWorks on their YouTube.

Another beautiful performance by one my favourite musicians via the excellent early music society Pacific MusicWorks. Great to see the Baroque guitar in action and the ensemble being directed by Stubbs. When strummed in chamber music the Baroque guitar really combines with the harpsichord to create some exciting rhythmic accompaniment.

Here’s another recent video of them playing Zuipaqui by Domenico Zipoli (1688-1726) joined by Danielle Sampson (soprano).

Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner is a classical guitarist and music publisher from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally created this site for his students at the Victoria Conservatory of Music but now shares content worldwide. Curating guitar content helps students absorb the culture, musical ideas, and technique of the classical guitar. Bradford also has a YouTube channel with over 94,000 subscribers and 13 million views. He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 16 years and freelanced in Greater Victoria for 20 years and now dedicates much of his time curating content online and helping connect the classical guitar community. See more at his personal website.