Philharmonia Baroque in Berkeley. Steven Isserlis, violoncello
This was a marvelous concert on Sunday night October 12; the Philharonia Baroque never ceases to please! As a paid subscriber this year, i found in an envelope on my seat a gift CD voucher, which I exchanged for the opera by Handel, Teseo(Highlights) which I heard at the First Congregational Church, Berkeley, April 14, 2013. What a delightful surprise to have a gift for committing to a trio of performances this year into 2015. The orchestra has just returned from their summer tour where they performed at Lincoln Center at Tanglewood and in Norfolk, my favorite places in summer when we had our life in Litchfield, Connecticut. Steven Isserlis was a surprise for me, and I could not help thinking as he played CPE Bach's Concerto for Violoncello in A major, Wq 172, and perhaps, especially, the Luigi Boccherini (1732-1805)Concerto for Violoncello No. 7 in G Major, G. 480 that he could have played at the courts at which Bach and Boccherini were favored in their time, in b...