The Somerville Museum continues its twenty-third season of Early Music Afternoons on Sunday, December 11, when Olav Chris Henriksen performs The Roscher Guitar: More Music from the North European Parlor. This concert celebrates Mr. Henriksen's recent CD release of music played upon this historic instrument.
An informal reception at the Museum follows the concert.
Friedrich Roscher (great-great-grandfather of Olav Chris Henriksen) brought a guitar and a collection of guitar music with him when he moved from Germany to Norway in 1822. This instrument and music collection have survived intact since then, and they form a unique time capsule, showing what music was enjoyed in northern European homes between 1800 and 1850. In this concert, Mr. Henriksen will focus on the European Continental part of the collection, performing works by Molino, von Call, Carcassi, Brand, Diabelli, Giuliani, Carulli and others. The program will include sonatas and variations, as well as preludes, a fugue and a Bolero.
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Somerville resident Olav Chris Henriksen has been acclaimed throughout Europe and North America as a soloist on lute, theorbo and early guitars with the Boston Camerata, Handel and Haydn Society, Ensemble Chaconne, Mark Morris Dance Company, Musicians of the Old Post Road, Boston Baroque, Emmanuel Music, Waverly Consort, and many others. His solo recording; La Guitarre Royalle: French Baroque and Classical Guitar Music, is on the Museum Music label. Mr. Henriksen has also recorded for Centaur, Nonesuch, Erato, Pro Musica, Telarc and Decca, and he teaches at the Boston Conservatory and the University of Southern Maine.
