From the rich legacy of psalm settings, our season finale juxtaposes music from the Jewish and Christian traditions. In convertendo (Psalm 126) from the operatic master Jean-Philippe Rameau infuses the psalmist's words with flair and passion, while companion pieces by Salamone Rossi and J. S. Bach infuse psalm texts with sonorous counterpoint. Featuring: Erica Schuller, …
With a tip of our hat to Dave Brubeck’s famous ground-breaking hit, “Take Five,” Sarasa brings the lush sound of the cello to the fore in music arranged and written for four cellos. A wide range of eras and styles from Josquin des Prez to J.S. Bach to Beethoven to Wagner to Fauré and Brubeck …
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Music played by the female, virtuosic musicians of Baroque Venice. Meet the women who were heard not seen. Baroque Venice’s orphanages provided extensive musical training for the girls that ended up in them. Many stayed all their lives and became the most celebrated virtuosic musicians in Europe. The women performed behind lattice screens, inviting an …
Special Concert! Global Connections PHILIP GLASS HARPSICHORD CONCERTO TICKET NOT YET ON SALE In-person and Virtual Members of the Seattle Baroque Orchestra and Auburn Symphony join forces to revive the Concerto for Harpsichord by Philip Glass. Premiered in Seattle by the Northwest Chamber Orchestra and harpsichord soloist Jillon Stoppels Dupree in 2002, Dupree returns to …
Mezzo-soprano Pamela Dellal joins Duo Maresienne (Carol Lewis, viola da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, renaissance lute) in a program of music from the Stuart courts. There will be songs by Dowland, Coperario, and Johnson, and instrumental fantasias and dance music by Johnson, Dowland, Sumarte and Hume. Ms. Dellal will sing “Sweet birds deprive us never” …
A Masque of Characters: an Early 17th-century English Entertainment Read More »
With a tip of our hat to Dave Brubeck’s famous ground-breaking hit, “Take Five,” Sarasa brings the lush sound of the cello to the fore in music arranged and written for four cellos. A wide range of eras and styles from Josquin des Prez to J.S. Bach to Beethoven to Wagner to Fauré and Brubeck …
Sarasa Presents: “Take Four! Music for Cello Quartet” Read More »
La Donna Musicale presents a concert of Italian Baroque women composers. The program features their settings of prayers to the Virgin, a powerful Stabat Mater, and a dialogue between Mary and Eve the mother of God and the mother of humankind. It also includes a motet for two voices that illustrates the martyrdom and invincibility of …
Celebrate the flowering of spring Entre dos Álamos, “between two poplars!” This evocative phrase, the title of our concert, is from Juan Blas de Castro's setting of a lyrical fragment from Lope de Vega's novel Las fortunas de Diana. In this tale, the envious river Tagus tries to separate two lovers, just awakened by the …
Music of Renaissance Peru, Bolivia & Chile in Philadelphia, PA Read More »
Celebrate the flowering of spring Entre dos Álamos, “between two poplars,” in charming Chestnut Hill! This evocative phrase, the title of our concert, is from Juan Blas de Castro's setting of a lyrical fragment from Lope de Vega's novel Las fortunas de Diana. In this tale, the envious river Tagus tries to separate two lovers, …
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Early Music Missouri brings a concert of Italian Baroque music to the Shumei Center in Crestone, CO. “The Evolving Cello: Sonatas & Sinfonias by Italian Virtuosi” features music by the first generation of cello virtuosi, offering an entertaining and enlightening look at some of the musicians who determined the future of the cello. The performance will …
Celebrate the flowering of spring Entre dos Álamos, “between two poplars,” at the historic and beautifully landscaped Christ Church Christiana Hundred! This evocative phrase, the title of our concert, is from Juan Blas de Castro's setting of a lyrical fragment from Lope de Vega's novel Las fortunas de Diana. In this tale, the envious river …
Music of Renaissance Peru, Bolivia & Chile in Delaware Read More »
Celebrate the flowering of spring Entre dos Álamos, “between two poplars,” in a rare New York appearance by Piffaro, the Renaissance Band! This evocative phrase, the title of our concert, is from Juan Blas de Castro's setting of a lyrical fragment from Lope de Vega's novel Las fortunas de Diana. In this tale, the envious …
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Early Music Missouri brings a concert of Italian Baroque music to San Miguel Chapel. "The Evolving Cello: Sonatas & Sinfonias by Italian Virtuosi" features music by the first generation of cello virtuosi, offering an entertaining and enlightening look at some of the musicians who determined the future of the cello. The performance will feature Baroque …
Songs of Time: 700 years of Delights for the Muses Long & Away, a consort of viols Anne Legêne, Karen Burciaga, James Perretta, violas da gamba Thursday May 25, 7:30 PM St. Paul’s Episcopal Church 29 Main Street, Stockbridge, MA Suggested donation $20 Viol consort Long & Away presents an eclectic program traveling …
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Join vocal ensemble Affeccyon as they bring to life a selection of English choral music rarely, if ever, heard since the sixteenth century. Presented in conjunction with Stanford’s early modern focal group Renaissances and directed by Ph.D. student Daniel Koplitz, the performance features pre-Reformation motets and Mass movements by anonymous or lesser-known Tudor composers and …
Affeccyon performs lesser-known choral works from the ‘Gyffard’ partbooks Read More »
See and hear an early, sacred Spanish program, formed around the Victoria Missa Salve performed by Richmond's own Cathedral Schola Cantorum with Forgotten Clefs - performing on period instruments.
Songs of Time: 700 years of Delights for the Muses Long & Away, a consort of viols Anne Legêne, Karen Burciaga, James Perretta, violas da gamba Viol consort Long & Away presents an eclectic program traveling with the Muses from the 1400s to the present day. Inspired by the time hopping “Song of Time” …
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Voici une occasion unique en Outaouais d’entendre, dans un décor enchanteur, un récital solo de clavecin offert par le claveciniste italien Francesco Corti. Ce claveciniste multirécompensé, de renommée internationale, présente un programme de musique allemande axé sur le parcours d’inspiration de Jean-Sébastien Bach. En effet, celui-ci voue une grande admiration à ses meilleurs devanciers allemands, …
An organ recital by Nathaniel Brown of works from the German and Dutch Renaissance and Baroque, and modern works in antique style. Featuring the premier of his transcription of Sietze de Vries' improvisation on "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme."
Semi-staged, newly arranged Music by: Antoni de Literes (1673-1747) Libretto by: José de Cañizares (1676-1750) FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2022 | 7:30PM SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2023 | 7:30PM Arts Mission Oak Cliff Run time: 2 hour and 15 minutes including intermission Sung in Spanish with English supertitles
FINE COMPANION is a program of newly-composed settings of troubadour songs and texts, written in a dream-pop /shoegaze/ psychedelic rock style for an amplified combination of medieval and new instruments. The texts of this project were chosen by Charles Mueller (composer) and the ensemble, with a focus on troubadour lyrics that expand or refute the standard tropes of …
*No, we're not talking about the South Korean smash sensations, it's Bach, Telemann and Scarlatti time! LA's community baroque "Big Band" is exploring some of the most satisfying orchestral suites by composers who knew a thing or two about writing them. Join us for our 7th Season closer, including Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 2 (aka …
Los Angeles Baroque – The Other B.T.S*… Live in Concert! Read More »
Semi-staged, newly arranged Music by: Antoni de Literes (1673-1747) Libretto by: José de Cañizares (1676-1750) FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2022 | 7:30PM SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2023 | 7:30PM Arts Mission Oak Cliff Run time: 2 hour and 15 minutes including intermission Sung in Spanish with English supertitles
Recent research has uncovered a treasure trove of medieval and Renaissance music by composers of diverse backgrounds -- from the first born in the New World to cloistered Italian nuns. Jouyssance will perform select works from these collections, as well as two gorgeous motets by Vicente Lusitano, the first published composers of African heritage. Our …
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