The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has generously invited BHV members to this performance at no cost. 

About the performance:

Last year, Rachel Barton Pine took a thrilling “test-drive” on the Gardner Museum’s extraordinary 1770s viola d’amore (on display in the Yellow Room). Delighted with the instrument, she is returning to play a recital on violin and viola d’amore, including our extraordinary and rare instrument. Our viola d’amore has seven bowed strings and additional sympathetic strings that add a silvery glow to the sound. Championed by composers as varied as Vivaldi, Haydn, and Bernstein, the instrument developed from roots in Middle Eastern music.

 
Works
Selections by Vivaldi, Telemann, and Haydn for viola d’amore

Johannes Brahms Violin Sonata (1886)
Pablo de Sarasate Introduction and Tarantella for Violin (1900)
Charles Martin Loeffler Mescolanza “Olla Podrida” for Viola D’Amore and Piano (after 1900)
Norske Land for Viola D’Amore and Piano (by 1929)