What the world needs now, is Love Sweet Love!

Love comes in so many forms, and exists between so many different kinds of people. The Colorado Chamber Players celebrate the Valentine’s weekend with music about passionate love; spiritual love; love of family; tragic love; eternal love; disappearing love; and more.  Indulge in gorgeous music of Bach, Brahms, Gershwin, Monnet, Mozart, Koday, Bacharach, Tisdale and others.

Join Colorado Chamber Players musicians and beloved guests, including Beth Vanderborgh, John Fadial, Barbara Hamilton, Paul Primus, Andrew Cooperstock, Bill Terwilliger, Dan Urbanowicz, Josh Baker, Emily Levin, Lily Primus, Gwenyth Aggeler, Alice Chuaqui Baldwin, Kathryn Radakovich, and Sarah Biber.

PROGRAM
Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967), Duo for Violin and Cello, op. 7, mvt. 1, Allegro serioso, non troppo, John Fadial, Violin and Beth Vanderborgh, Cello

J.S. Bach-Grandjany, Etude no. 3 (arranged by Grandjany from BWV 1002, Sarabande from solo Violin Partita in B Minor), Lily Primus, Harp

William Tisdale, Pavana Chromatica, Mrs Katherin Tregians Paven, from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, c. 1610, Alice Chuaqui Baldwin, Harpsichord

W.A. Mozart, from Duo for Violin and Viola in G Major K.423 , Adagio, arr. For Viola and Bassoon by Dan Urbanowicz, with Dan Urbanowicz, Viola and Josh Baker, Bassoon

Marguerite Monnet: Hymne à l’amour (Édith Piaf, Hymn to Love), Gwenyth Aggeler, Guitar

Marin Marais  La Reveuse (a Woman Dreaming), Sarah Biber, Bass Viola da gamba

Johannes Brahms, Intermezzo op. 118 no. 2 (arranged and edited by Emily Levin), Emily Levin, Harp

George Gershwin, Girl Crazy Suite III: Embraceable You, with William Terwilliger, Violin and  Andrew Cooperstock, Piano

Bob Wills/Mark O’Connor: Faded Love, arr. For Two Violins, with  Barbara Hamilton and Paul Primus, Violins

K. Radakovich: It’s Love, Kathryn Radakovich, Soprano and Piano

Burt Bacharach: What the World Needs Now is Love Sweet Love, Kathryn Radakovich, Soprano and Piano

Named one of the top five chamber groups in Colorado by the Denver Post, the Colorado Chamber Players celebrates its 27th Season in 2020-2021. The 27th Season will be presented in a virtual format.

The ensemble has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Chamber Music America Residency Awards (2000 and 2008). The CCP has received awards from the Argosy Foundation, Denver Mayor's Fund, Colorado Creative Industries, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Energize Colorado, Xcel Energy Foundation, and the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD).

The CCP has a core of string quartet, double bass, piano, harp, clarinet and flute.  Favorite guest artists have included cellists Lynn Harrell and David Geber, clarinetist Derek Bermel, guitarist Sharon Isbin, violists Jesse Levine, Patricia McCarty and Roger Tapping, and pianist Jeffrey Kahane. 

Critic Marc Shulgold wrote of a performance with Lynn Harrell in 2018 (from thescen3.org):

"From the hushed opening chords, growing majestically out of silence, the ensemble played as if with a single voice, the two cellos and then two violins soaring exquisitely through the First Movement’s unforgettable theme. The gorgeous Adagio unfolded with a wisely chosen tempo – not too fast, but just slow enough to maintain momentum and keep our focus on the subtly emerging melody. The final two movements bubbled with confidence, each of the numerous transitions managed with solid control. No surprise that the audience, clearly engaged in Schubert’s heavenly music, barely made a peep during the performance."