Ockethem@600 Concert 13. This final installation in our multi-season traversal of Ockeghem's complete works, featuring some of his most moving pieces - the Missa Mi mi, the motet Intemerata dei mater, and the song Presque transi - as well as the famous lament for Ockeghem, Numphes des bois by Josquin Desprez. Free pre-concert talk 45 minutes before …
Beginning with Johann Hermann Schein (1586–1630), who served as Kantor at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig for fifteen years, we include on our vocal polyphony series German motets by the foremost composers to hold the position before J.S. Bach. Schein’s motet series Fontana d’Israel is among the most important of the 17th century, with music exquisitely crafted to …
Beginning with Johann Hermann Schein (1586–1630), who served as Kantor at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig for fifteen years, we include on our vocal polyphony series German motets by the foremost composers to hold the position before J.S. Bach. Schein’s motet series Fontana d’Israel is among the most important of the 17th century, with music exquisitely crafted to …
Join host Debra Nagy in this online-only presentation: The 15th Century Instrumentarium. These online talks and conversation are in-depth explorations of topics in early music with Q&A.
Courtly music from Mantua & Ferrara, c. 1500. Blue Heron will be joined by a pair of outstanding medieval instrumentalists - fiddle player Anna Danilevskaia and multi-instrumental virtuosa Debra Nagy - in a program of music connected to the great patroness Isabella d'Este of Ferrar, Marchesa of Mantua. Free pre-concert talk 45 minutes before the …
We close the season with our signature work, Bach’s great Mass in B Minor. Among the greatest musical compositions in any tradition, Bach’s masterwork has been for countless audiences a limitless reservoir of comfort and a balm for the soul. Margot Rood, soprano; Crossley Danielle Hawn, soprano; Roger O. Isaacs, countertenor; Andrew Bearden Brown, tenor; Dashon Burton, bass “Talking Bach,” …
Seicento Baroque Ensemble Making History Concert Series with International Guest Stars & Period Instruments Seicento Baroque Ensemble, Colorado’s premier choral ensemble performing with historic instruments, presents J.S. Bach’s St. John’s Passion, May 5, 6, and 7, in Denver, Arvada, and Boulder. For the first time in Colorado, audiences will experience this monumental piece with the …
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Special Concert! Global Connections DE INGA Y MANDINGA In-person and Virtual Delayed this season because of the pandemic, we are planning a full-length dramatic production of De Inga y Mandinga in partnership with the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute. De Inga y Mandinga (roughly translated to “of Indigenous and African heritage”) is a multimedia, multidisciplinary …
Presented by Early Music Vancouver. Featured artists: Constantinople under the direction of Kiya Tabassian, Federico Tarrazona charango, Jonatan Alvarado voice and guitar This concert explores the juxtaposition of indigenous South American musical traditions with the ‘new’ repertoire introduced by the European colonizers in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. The two main sources used to …
Duo Lyra (Zoe Vandermeer, soprano and triple harp, and Hideki Yamaya, theorbo, lutes), perform the music of Monteverdi, Caccini, Luzzaschi, and others at the Connecticut Early Music Festival on June 17, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. at the Harkness Chapel on the campus of Connecticut College in New London, CT.
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