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February 2021
Heavenly Queens
It is rare to find works that feature five treble voices, and Gasparini’s Mass for Five Trebles is a wonderful addition to the literature. TENET Vocal Artists was inspired to explore it after the release of a new edition. Heavenly Queens celebrates music composed for convents in two halves: the first half features duets and trios by the prolific Italian nun Chiara Maria Cozzolani. The second half is dedicated to Francesco Gasparini’s mass. This mass is well-features all of the…
Find out more »March 2021
Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater
Composed during the final weeks of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s life, the Stabat Mater is an important text that was widely set during the baroque era. Pergolesi’s Stabat mater is set for soprano and alto with strings and continuo, and we recorded one voice to a part to create an intimate rendition that is socially distanced. TENET has long held a tradition of offering TENEbrae performances, and this year’s Stabat Mater is a natural fit for Lent.
Find out more »Welcome to All the Pleasures! The Odes of Henry Purcell
Join us for a rerelease of two Purcell Odes, and other previously unreleased works, originally performed May 13, 2018. (soloists) Clara Rottsolk, Stefanie Moore, Jay Carter, Aaron Sheehan, Stephen Salts, Enrico Lagasca. This video will premier on Saturday, March 27 and will be available to be streamed until June 30, 2021.
Find out more »April 2021
Jonathan Woody World Premiere, from Themes by Ignatius Sancho
H+H will give the world premiere of a commission by Jonathan Woody based on themes of Ignatius Sancho. Born on a ship carrying enslaved people in the Atlantic, Sancho was sold into slavery in the Spanish colony of New Grenada, later making it to England to become a business owner, writer, composer, and the first Black man to vote in a British election. Woody, an acclaimed bass-baritone as well as a highly regarded composer, has performed across the globe and…
Find out more »Consider Yourself Warned
17th century Venetian composer and performer Barbara Strozzi continues to be an anomaly to scholars today. She led a fascinating life in that she was an unmarried mother of four children, the illegitimate daughter of a courtly poet, and a wonderful composer whose work was unconnected to the church. Her thoughts speak through her music, and this performance gives listeners a piece of her mind as she sets poetry that highlights life's misfortunes and struggles. TENET’s beloved trio create this…
Find out more »IndyBaroque Music | Watchful Hearts
Watchful Hearts: 17th Century Music at the Hapsburg Court The Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra presents a program blending music and narrative that gives insight into the tumultuous landscape of the Thirty Years War and its effects on the musicians of the next generation. Experimental harmonies, improvisatory zeal and zest, and freedom of affect and form all characterize this “Stylus Phantasticus.” Music by the greatest architects of this style, Heinrich Biber, Georg Muffat, Johann Schmelzer, and Antonio Bertali is both brilliant and…
Find out more »May 2021
Mozart A Little Night Music
Don’t miss this celebration of all things Mozart, including his beloved favorite, the effervescent Eine kleine Nachtmusik. You’ll understand its perennial acclaim when you hear the H+H Orchestra perform this cheerful jewel on the period instruments for which Mozart composed. You’ll also want to raise a glass to those you love while you enjoy Serenata notturna, Mozart’s serenade that is at times courtly, at times evocative of a high-flying country dance. Sparks are sure to fly as you savor these peerless Mozart…
Find out more »Grief of the Heart
Grief of the Heart features the dramatic repertoire of the High Baroque, with music by G. F. Handel and the lesser-known Agostino Steffani. Tenors Andrew Fuchs and Brian Giebler sing duets and solos filled with rich counterpoint, delicious dissonances, and beautifully expressive melodies from these two masters of the 18th Century. Concerts in TENET's 2021 Spring Series will be available online through the summer.
Find out more »Deceptively Simple
The earliest written keyboard pieces were improvisations on simple musical material: popular tunes, plainchant, or even just abstract musical intervals. The scale is possibly the simplest building block of all, and composers delighted in spinning elaborate musical structures out of scales. Jeffrey Grossman performs a selection of these works, which all begin unpretentiously but build to dazzling, finger-twisting heights. Concerts in TENET's 2021 Spring Series will stream from the release date through the summer.
Find out more »Vivaldi’s Orphan Girls: Virtuosi della Pietà
May 14th, 2021 – 5:00pm-6:00pm, 7:30pm-8:30pm Brattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro (VT) May 15th, 2021 – 7:30pm Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church, Cambridge All Vivaldi Program: Concerto No. 1 in B-flat major RV 383a, from Op. 4 La Stravaganza for violin, strings, & basso continuo Zeffiretti che sussurrate, RV 749.31 for soprano, strings & harpsichord Sonata for 2 violins and basso continuo in F major, RV 68 Ascende lieta, RV 635 for soprano, strings, & basso continuo Concerto No. 12 E Minor, RV 409 for violoncello solo,…
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