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CENTRAL ABBEY
· 1832
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14, 2026: ST.
AUGUSTINE
CATHOLIC CHURCH 428
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St. Augustine Catholic Parish
Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes
2026 Salish Sea Early
Music Festival in Spokane ~ Period Instrument
chamber music from six centuries in Spokane and
around the Salish Sea ~
~ Presented in
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Sunday,
June 14, 2026
at 2:00
PM
at St. Augustine Catholic Parish:
—BACH
& JACQUET
Johann
Sebastian Bach &
Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la
Guerre
· Irene
Roldàn, harpsichord
· Jeffrey Cohan,
baroque flute
Guest
Spanish harpsichordist Irene Roldán from
Basel, Switzerland and baroque flutist
Jeffrey Cohan explore connections
between Johann Sebastian Bach and French
composers such as Élisabeth Jacquet de
La Guerre and Louis Couperin, from whose
innovations Bach was to benefit.
Harpsichord solos including La Guerre’s
Prélude in D Minor, La Zaïde by Pancrace
Royer, and the Suite in F Major by Louis
Couperin will complement flute sonatas
in E Major and G Minor by Johann
Sebastian Bach alongside the performers’
transcriptions of Bach’s violin sonata
in C Minor and the violin sonata in D
Major by É. Jacquet de La Guerre
Born 20 years before Johann Sebastian
Bach and a favorite composer of Louis
XIV, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre made
many important contributions in her
compositions both for solo keyboard and
in the development of the cantata, all
the while juxtaposing and integrating
the distinct French and Italian styles,
setting the stage for similar techniques
and forms that Bach was later to use
extensively and develop further.
Award-winning
harpsichordist Irene Roldán
(www.ireneroldan.com)
was born in southern Spain in 1997.
Described by the press as one of the
most prominent Spanish harpsichordists
on the international scene (ABC
Sevilla), Irene currently lives and
works in Basel, Switzerland. She gained
international recognition in 2021, when
she won first prize, never previously
awarded in this competition, as well as
the audience prize at the III.
International Harpsichord Competition
«Città di Milano». In the same year, her
ensemble Flor Galante secured the first
prize at the IV. International Bach
Competition in Berlin. One year later,
Irene was honored with the prestigious
Bach Prize and an additional special
award at the XXXIII. International Bach
Competition held in Leipzig, Germany.
Innovative
renditions of renaissance
Psalms (~1620), Irish and Scottish
baroque (~1720) and folk music as
interpreted during Beethoven's
lifetime (~1820) outlines this 100%
new program continuing Oleg and
Jeffrey's exploration of settings
from three centuries of popular and
folk music, performed on 5
transverse flutes and three plucked
instruments.
Two experiments in particular are
worth of mention. In the early 17th
century Flutist Jacob Van Eyck and
lutenist Nicolas Vallet both wrote
settings of many of the Psalm tunes
from the Geneva Psalter of the
mid-16th century. Timofreyev and
Cohan juxtapose these in a manner
that sheds new light on early
17th-century improvisational
practice.
James Oswald's "Airs for the
Seasons" consists of four
collections, one for each season, of
about 24 airs or multi-movement
suites, each dedicated to a
particular flower of the season and
radiating the charming character of
the folk melodies of Oswald's native
Scotland. The wire strung English
guitar, so rarely to be heard today,
emerged around this time as one of
the most prominent instruments of
home life in England, and Oswald's
airs beautifully suit Oleg's
instrument made in 1767 alongside
the one-keyed baroque flute.
LISTEN:
Oleg Timofeyev and
Jeffrey Cohan play Drouet's God
Save the Queen on SoundCloud:
Vocal masterworks to be
presented include 6 of Handel's
9 exquisite German
Arias, selected arias
from cantatas by Bach, his Italian
Concerto for solo
harpsichord, and flute sonata by
Handel and Bach's cantata
Ich habe genug.
★
★ ★
Jeffrey
Cohan,
renaissance
transverse
flutes
Fantasia
11 by Giovanni
Bassano (1585)
recorded
January 11,
2021
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