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December 2018
Music Before 1800: Ensemble Correspondances
Sébastien Daucé, director and harpsichord Six singers and eight instrumentalists from France Christmas Pastorale Music Before 1800 offers a refreshingly different December program: the Christmas Pastorale by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. The work tells the nativity story, blending the shepherds’ naïveté with the gravity of Jesus’ birth. It is performed by the superb Ensemble Correspondances, a relatively young group begun in 2009 that has been called “alarmingly sensual” by the press. It already boasts nine prize-winning CDs.
Find out more »January 2019
Music Before 1800: Academy of Sacred Drama
Jeremy Rhizor, director and violin Three singers and seven instrumentalists Mosé: La creatione de’ magistrati Director Jeremy Rhizor’s mission is to create an enriching and totally original experience for listeners. He combines a 17th-century oratorio, Giovanni Antonio Gianettini’s La creatione de’ magistrati in a modern-day premiere, an informative lecture at its midpoint, and a reception for the audience after the performance. The oratorio’s text is enlightening: the prophet Moses learns hard lessons about governance. Mid-concert lecture and post-concert dessert
Find out more »Ronn McFarlane, Solo Lute, at Delaware Friends of Folk
Grammy-nominated lutenist Ronn McFarlane will perform a selection of pieces on solo lute at the Delaware Friends of Folk Coffee House Series. A local musician will open the concert at 7:30pm
Find out more »Sunrise and Spring – Part of Queen Anne Concerts, under the auspices of Musique du Jour Presents!
Acclaimed violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock, concertmaster of the world-famous Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (San Francisco), performs on her 1660 Andrea Guarneri violin (Cremona) with violinist Cecilia Archuleta, violist Laurel Wells, and cellist Meg Brennand playing Haydn’s Sunrise Quartet and Mozart’s Spring Quartet. Rounding out the program will be Bach’s A-minor Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin and Mozart’s lovely Adagio and Fugue after W. F. Bach. “The performance fairly crackled with electricity.” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) $30 GA, $25 SN, $15 Youth (ages 17–25/Students), "Kids-Come-Free" (accompanied…
Find out more »Sunrise and Spring – Part of Queen Anne Concerts, under the auspices of Musique du Jour Presents!
Acclaimed violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock, concertmaster of the world-famous Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (San Francisco), performs on her 1660 Andrea Guarneri violin (Cremona) with violinist Cecilia Archuleta, violist Laurel Wells, and cellist Meg Brennand playing Haydn’s Sunrise Quartet and Mozart’s Spring Quartet. Rounding out the program will be Bach’s A-minor Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin and Mozart’s lovely Adagio and Fugue after W. F. Bach. “The performance fairly crackled with electricity.” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) $30 GA, $25 SN, $15 Youth (ages 17–25/Students), "Kids-Come-Free" (accompanied…
Find out more »Music Before 1800: Han Tol & Boreas Quartett Bremen
Five recorder players from Germany Il flauto magico “Il flauto magico” describes the recorder as played in consort by the renowned Han Tol and Boreas Quartett Bremen. In nomines by Tye and dances by Holborne and Dowland contrast with music by Vivaldi, Boismortier, and contrapuncti from Bach’s Art of Fugue. Jin-Ju Baek, Elisabeth Champollion, Julia Fritz, and Luise Manske, protégés of Han Tol, play over forty recorders of different sizes. Pre-concert lecture
Find out more »February 2019
Music Before 1800: Blue Heron
Scott Metcalfe, director Thirteen-voice choir The Lost Music of Canterbury Director Scott Metcalfe loves big, comprehensive projects. He and Boston’s much-praised Blue Heron have released five CDs of music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, significant because some of the parts had been missing for years, rendering entire works unperformable. Thanks to careful scholarship, we’ll hear pieces in premiere by Hugh Aston and Arthur Chamberlayne alongside music of Fayrfax and Taverner. Post-concert Q and A
Find out more »Ronn McFarlane and Ayreheart at The Old Brogue
Grammy-nominated lutenist Ronn McFarlane and his instrumental trio will have two separate seating performances: 4-5:3pm and 6-7:30pm. Advance tickets are recommended.
Find out more »The Baltimore Consort at Mississippi Academy of Ancient Music
Performing The Food of Love: Songs, Dances, and Fancies for Shakespeare http://baltcons.com/
Find out more »March 2019
Music Before 1800: Alkemie
Five-part medieval ensemble Rosa das rosas: Songs for the Virgin Mary Five East Coast musicians founded Alkemie in 2013 to explore both the sublime and the earthly realms of medieval repertory. This Spanish program from the 13th and 14th centuries features singing and playing of multiple instruments—harp, recorders, vielle, and percussion. The pieces honor the Virgin Mary—most beautiful rose, miraculous healer, dragon slayer, and powerful intercessor during the upheaval of war.
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