Presented by Early Music Vancouver and featuring Ensemble Castor (Austria) and Hélène Brunet soprano. A fun alternative to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, this concert pairs concertos for Ensemble Castor’s six musicians with arias and motets by the Venetian ‘Red Priest.’ We welcome the wonderful June Award-winning soprano Hélène Brunet who will unleash her dramatic abilities and virtuosic …
Presented by Early Music Vancouver. Featured artists: Accademia de’ Dissonanti (Canada/Europe), directed by Elinor Frey cello This concert celebrates the charm and lyrical beauty of Boccherini alongside chamber music favorites by W.A. Mozart, J.C. Bach, and Maddalena Lombardi Sirmen. The programme reunites Canadian string players Isaac Chalk and Elinor Frey with Europeans Laura Andriani, Rossella …
Presented by Early Music Vancouver. Featured artists: Diabolus in Musica (France), directed by Nicolas Sansarlat This French medieval music ensemble is engaged in the rediscovery of Medieval works by the Troubadours, Trouvères and the Notre-Dame School. Their concert showcases troubadour songs and polyphonies from Aquitaine in the 12th century, a pivotal period in history which, …
Presented by Early Music Vancouver. Featured Artist: Thomas Dunford, lute Described as the "Eric Clapton of the lute" in a review by BBC Music Magazine, Thomas Dunford performs works by Dowland and Kapsberger as well as his own arrangement of Bach’s Cello Suite in G Major. Bach probably conceived of his works for lute on …
Presented by Early Music Vancouver. Featured artists: Ensemble Cappella Mariana (Czech Republic), Constantinople (Canada/Iran), and Bill Richardson narrator The life of the Czech nobleman, traveller, writer and composer Kryštof Harant ended violently in 1621. This evening presents his surviving compositions and literary legacy - his 1608 book recording the trip he made to the Middle …
Presented by Early Music Vancouver. Featured artists: Reginald Mobley countertenor, Pacific Baroque Orchestra directed by Alexander Weimann Counter tenor Reginald Mobley returns to Vancouver to share his incomparable artistry with Alexander Weimann and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra in a unique recital. An important voice on issues of inequality in the classical music industry, Mobley is dedicated …
Presented by Early Music Vancouver. Featured artist: Consone Quartet (London) London’s Consone Quartet is the first period instrument quartet to be selected as ‘BBC New Generation Artists.’ Praised for their honest and expressive playing; they are fast making a name for themselves in classical and early romantic repertoire. The program includes work by Mozart, Haydn, Chevalier de …
Presented by Early Music Vancouver. Featured artists: The Breathtaking Collective with Hana Blazikova, soprano and Bruce Dickey cornetto The cornetto takes a prominent place among the choirs of angelic musicians in 16th century art. The connection with angels in this concert serves as the inspiration for an aural journey that ranges from 1600 to the present …
Presented by Early Music Vancouver. Featured artists: : La Rêveuse directed by Florence Bolton, viola da gamba; Benjamin Perrot, direction and theorbo; Clément Geoffroy, harpsichord; Sébastien Marq, recorder Bird song is very different from the sound of instruments, but no other animal has given such inspiration to musicians and composers, from the Middle Ages to the …
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 …
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