Soprano and Welsh Triple Harpist Zoe Vandermeer performs her mostly 18th century British Isles program 'The Harp in Softly Pleasing Strains' at the Tuesday Midday Recital Series at King's Chapel, Boston. The program features delightful voice and harp and harp solos by Handel, Purcell, Welsh harpist and composer Edward Jones, and others. Zoe Vandermeer specializes […]
Pierre Hantaï, cited by Gramophone as being ‘…one of the very finest harpsichordists of our day’, performs a gorgeous program of music by great Baroque composers – Louis Couperin, François Couperin, G.F. Handel, J.S. Bach, and William Byrd. Pierre Hantaï is renowned for his thoughtful interpretations and remarkable virtuosity. This is a rare opportunity to […]
Join us for a sumptuous musical journey to the Middle Ages with voices and historical instruments. Allison Monroe, co-founder of Trobár and Director of the Five College Early Music Program, joins Early Music Michigan for an evening of music from the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, the Codex Las Huelgas, and the Cantigas de Santa Maria. […]
Completing TENET’s traversal of J.S. Bach’s major vocal works. TENET concludes our decade-long exploration of J. S. Bach’s oratorios performed unconducted and chamber-style in a jubilant performance of the Mass in B Minor. Led from the keyboard by frequent TENET collaborator Jeffrey Grossman, TENET is proud to feature a cast made up of a majority […]
Pierre Hantaï is lauded for having an “… intuitive understanding of all those subtle ingredients that make music so compelling and utterly irresistible… No detail is lost.” (BBC Music Magazine). Capriccio is thrilled to present this exceptional artist in concert. Join us and hear this brilliant artist perform some of his favorite Bach works in […]
Join Seven Times Salt in a beautiful historic home on the shores of Lake Champlain for a hearty helping of Renaissance drinking songs, elegant consort lessons, joyous dance tunes, and broadside ballads—with audience participation encouraged! Program details will be announced. We’re pleased to welcome back David H. Miller for this very special evening. Karen Burciaga, […]
Perhaps the English language’s most famous diarist, Samuel Pepys was a prosperous civil servant and bon vivant in Restoration London. The diaries he kept from 1660-1668 provide a fascinating glimpse of life during the reign of the “merry monarch” Charles II. An enthusiastic amateur musician who sang and the lute, viola da gamba, and flageolet, […]
The experience of exile can take many forms–from banishment to estrangement to homesickness. The despair of being unwillingly separated from all that is familiar resonates deeply in the human soul. Voices and viols unite in 16th-century polyphony from Spain, France, Holland, Italy, England, and Germany that depicts both physical and psychological exile. From well-known composers […]
The experience of exile can take many forms–from banishment to estrangement to homesickness. The despair of being unwillingly separated from all that is familiar resonates deeply in the human soul. Voices and viols unite in 16th-century polyphony from Spain, France, Holland, Italy, England, and Germany that depicts both physical and psychological exile. From well-known composers […]
The experience of exile can take many forms–from banishment to estrangement to homesickness. The despair of being unwillingly separated from all that is familiar resonates deeply in the human soul. Voices and viols unite in 16th-century polyphony from Spain, France, Holland, Italy, England, and Germany that depicts both physical and psychological exile. From well-known composers […]
The Baroque Music Festival, Corona del Mar, embraces “All the Pleasures” in an appreciation of the Italian influence on music in 17th- and 18th-century London society in five concerts June 16-23, 2024 in Newport Beach and Corona del Mar on the Californian Riviera. The 2024 Festival, themed “All the Pleasures” (named after the Purcell Ode […]
Soloists from the Festival Orchestra will bring out the southern sun to banish the northern fog through the influence of Italian composers. Come for J.C. (“The London”) Bach’s Italianate Sinfonia Concertante for violin and cello, concerti grossi by Corelli, Geminiani (arranging Corelli) and Avison (after Scarlatti), and stay for Handel’s organ concerto “Cuckoo and Nightingale” and more—performed by […]
Escape the noise, and enjoy the restorative sounds of soprano and lute in the intimate acoustics of St. Michael and All Angels’ church at our special evening recital of English lute songs. While Shakespeare was defining English poetry and drama, Dowland was doing the same for English song. After Dowland, the influence of the Italians […]
MIRYAM traces the thread of Jewish resilience and creativity from medieval Iberia to Baroque Amsterdam. Shir Levi’im (the song of the Levites) refers both to the ancient Levites who sang psalms of worship in the Temple, and 11th c. Sephardic poet Yehuda Halevi, whose surname evokes this musical heritage. In 1593, Portuguese Jews began to […]
The first of our two “Gardens” concerts features the Festival’s very own nightingales (aka Blumenstock, Einem and Diggins) in sweet music for three violins... Plus Couperin and Pasquini birdsong-inspired keyboard works, and solo Bach. Elizabeth Blumenstock, Jolianne Einem and Rob Diggins (violins), with Eva Lymenstull (cello and viola da gamba) and Ian Pritchard (harpsichord and […]
MIRYAM traces the thread of Jewish resilience and creativity from medieval Iberia to Baroque Amsterdam. Shir Levi’im (the song of the Levites) refers both to the ancient Levites who sang psalms of worship in the Temple, and 11th c. Sephardic poet Yehuda Halevi, whose surname evokes this musical heritage. In 1593, Portuguese Jews began to […]
MIRYAM traces the thread of Jewish resilience and creativity from medieval Iberia to Baroque Amsterdam. Shir Levi’im (the song of the Levites) refers both to the ancient Levites who sang psalms of worship in the Temple, and 11th c. Sephardic poet Yehuda Halevi, whose surname evokes this musical heritage. In 1593, Portuguese Jews began to […]
“Friday Gardens” regulars are joined by recorder player Judith Linsenberg for chamber music in the late baroque “galante” style. Plus, Bach! Late French and German Baroque chamber music in the musical equivalent of 18th-century fine art’s rococo, the immediately appealing galante style—including Telemann’s Paris Quartet in G Major. Plus, Bach’s solo keyboard Toccata BWV 914. Judith […]
All the Pleasures! The 44th Festival closes with divine choral odes by Handel and Purcell, plus instrumental works by both composers. Followed by the Festival Subscribers’ Dinner. Nola Richardson (soprano), Clifton Massey (countertenor) and Jesse Blumberg (baritone) join the Festival Orchestra and Chorus in Handel’s Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, “Eternal Source of Light […]
The Pandora Consort explores the mystical visions of Hildegard von Bingen through her illuminations and music. Hildegard is an impressive figure in many regards; she was a theologian, philosopher, botanist, doctor, magistra (mother superior), and one of the first named composers of music. Hildegard experienced visions (“umbra viventis lucis” or “the reflection of the living […]
The Pandora Consort: Kendra Comstock, Angie Tyler, Gina Marie Falk, voices The Pandora Consort explores the mystical visions of Hildegard von Bingen through her illuminations and music. Hildegard is an impressive figure in many regards; she was a theologian, philosopher, botanist, doctor, magistra (mother superior), and one of the first named composers of music. Hildegard […]
The Pandora Consort explores the mystical visions of Hildegard von Bingen through her illuminations and music. Hildegard is an impressive figure in many regards; she was a theologian, philosopher, botanist, doctor, magistra (mother superior), and one of the first named composers of music. Hildegard experienced visions (“umbra viventis lucis” or “the reflection of the living […]
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