 This spring, Carnegie Hall celebrates the resurgence in interest in recent decades of the performance of the music of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Leading this movement is a generation of performers who have devoted themselves to introducing concertgoers to the array of music written in the years before 1700, when both Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel (both born in 1685) became active composers. With great creativity, these artists have reimagined the world of music from this time, illuminating musical masterworks and bringing previously hidden corners of the repertoire to light. Carnegie Hall examines this musical movement with Before Bach, a month-long series that features thirteen concerts in April and May by some of the world’s most exciting early-music performers.
Critically acclaimed L’Arpeggiata, led by Christina Pluhar, kicks off this artistic focus on April 7–8, performing the music of Francesco Cavalli—including selections from Cavalli’s early operas—and Henry Purcell in two distinct concerts. Monteverdi specialist Sir John Eliot Gardiner concludes the series April 30 and May 1, leading lauded period-instrument ensemble the English Baroque Soloists and The Monteverdi Choir in two early Baroque masterpieces by the composer: the ambitious sacred work Vespro della Beata Vergine and a concert performance of L’Orfeo, one of the earliest operas still performed today.
In between, an amazing variety of ensembles and musicians from around the world come together at Carnegie Hall to take part in the celebration. Canadian ensembles Les Violons du Roy and La Chapelle de Québec, conducted by Richard Egarr, delve into an all-Purcell program, featuring excerpts from King Arthur and The Fairy Queen, as well as the composer’s landmark tragic opera Dido and Aeneas featuring riveting soprano Dorothea Röschmann as the opera’s heroine (April 12). In the same week, viola da gamba master Jordi Savall performs a solo recital (April 13) and also leads period-instrument ensemble Le Concert des Nations in a program that features compositions by the forefather of orchestral music, Jean-Baptiste Lully, as well as work by other composers of the French Baroque period, including François Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and Jean-Baptiste Forqueray (April 16). Celebrated South African harpsichordist Kristian Bezuidenhout performs a captivating program of instrumental music (April 23), and Fretwork, a consort of viols hailing from the United Kingdom, performs works by Matthew Locke, Orlando Gibbons, and Henry Purcell (April 20).
Placing particular emphasis on vocal music during the pre-Bach period, the celebration features vocal ensembles Pomerium (April 9) and I Fagiolini (April 25), presenting sacred and secular glories from the Renaissance. In addition, renowned British vocal ensemble, The Tallis Scholars, are featured in two concerts. They bring vocal works by Josquin des Prez and William Byrd to their performance in Weill Recital Hall (April 18). In addition, in the spirit of passing musical scholarship from one generation to another, Tallis Scholars founder and director Peter Phillips leads a multi-day workshop for pre-professional choral singers, created by Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, which culminates with workshop participants joining his group for a program at Church of St. Ignatius Loyola that features a composite mass drawn from Antoine Brumel’s dramatic Missa Et ecce terrae motus and Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Missa Salve Regina, in addition to Thomas Tallis’s magnificent 40-part motet “Spem in alium” (April 17), one of the most extraordinary works of the Renaissance.
The April 16 concert by Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations and the April 30 program by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, and The Monteverdi Choir air on WQXR 105.9 FM in New York as part of the fourth annual Carnegie Hall Live broadcast and digital series, produced by WQXR and Carnegie Hall and hosted by WQXR’s Jeff Spurgeon. Concerts in the series are available for live streaming on wqxr.org and carnegiehall.org/wqxr. During every live broadcast, WQXR and Carnegie Hall will host live web chats, including Twitter commentary by the broadcast team, from backstage and in the control room, connecting national and international fans to the music and to each other. This year, the WFMT Radio Network, the classical music and arts radio distributor and producer based in Chicago, has signed on to distribute select live concerts nationally. The complete Carnegie Hall Live line-up will also be available via WFMT Radio Network to public radio stations throughout the United States and internationally as a 13-part series starting in April 2015.
Further details on each Before Bach concert are noted below. For more information on the series, please visit carnegiehall.org/beforebach. For a video introduction to the series, please click here.
April 7–8: L’Arpeggiata
Kicking off the month-long Before Bach focus, early-music ensemble L’Arpeggiata and Artistic Director Christina Pluhar return to Carnegie Hall for a two-night series of concerts in Zankel Hall. On Tuesday, April 7 at 7:30 p.m., the ensemble is joined by soprano Nuria Rial for a program entitled L’Amore Innamorato: Arias by Francesco Cavalli. Ms. Pluhar is also featured on the theorbo. The following evening, Wednesday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m., Ms. Rial returns with alto Vincenzo Capezzuto and clarinetist Gianluigi Trovesi for a program entitled Music for A While: Improvisations on Henry Purcell featuring works by Cazzati and Purcell. A pre-concert talk starts at 6:30 p.m. in Zankel Hall with Christina Pluhar in conversation with Carnegie Hall’s Director of Artistic Planning Jeremy Geffen.
April 9: Pomerium’s Music for the Tudor Queens
Vocal ensemble Pomerium directed by Alexander Blachly sings music from the reigns of British monarchs Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I, including works by Robert White, Thomas Tallis, John Sheppard, and William Byrd on a program entitled Music for the Tudor Queens, on Thursday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m. in Weill Recital Hall.
April 12: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with Dorothea Röschmann
On Sunday, April 12 at 2:00 p.m., Richard Egarr conducts Les Violons du Roy and La Chapelle de Québec in an all-Purcell program with excerpts from his operas King Arthur and The Fairy Queen in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage. Also on the program is Dido and Aeneas featuring soprano Dorothea Röschmann as Dido and baritone Henk Neven as Aeneas, alongside soprano Hélène Guilmette as Belinda; mezzo-soprano Vicki St. Pierre (Sorceress); sopranos Stefanie True (Second Woman), Lesley Emma Bouza (First Witch), and Sheila Dietrich (Second Witch); countertenor Daniel Cabena (Spirit); tenor Jacques-Olivier Chartier (Sailor); and bass-baritone Stephen Hegedus.
April 13 and 16: Jordi Savall
Acclaimed viola da gamba player Jordi Savall plays a solo recital entitled The Spirit of the Viol on Monday, April 13 at 7:30 p.m. in Weill Recital Hall, with works by Jean de Sainte-Colombe, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe le fils, Le Sieur de Machy, Marin Marais, and others. Mr. Savall returns on Thursday, April 16 at 7:30 p.m., leading Le Concert des Nations in Zankel Hall in works by Jean-Baptiste Lully, François Couperin, Marin Marais, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Jean Baptiste Forqueray, and Jean-Marie Leclair.
April 17–18: The Tallis Scholars
As part of a weeklong workshop for pre-professional singers presented by Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars coach a group of 37 singers in the performance of a composite mass drawn from Antoine Brumel’s dramatic Missa Et ecce terrae motus and Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Missa Salve Regina, and other works including Thomas Tallis’s “Loquebantur variis linguis,” and “Spem in alium” which will be performed in a culminating concert on Friday, April 17 at 8:00 p.m. at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola. The following evening, Saturday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m. in Weill Recital Hall, Peter Phillips conducts The Tallis Scholars in works by Josquin des Préz and William Byrd.
April 20: Fretwork
Viol ensemble Fretwork plays an assortment of 17th century English works by Byrd, Cornyshe, Ferrabosco, Gibbons, Jenkins, Locke, Parsons, Purcell, Taverner, and Tye on Monday, April 20 at 7:30 p.m. in Weill Recital Hall.
April 23: Kristian Bezuidenhout
South African harpsichordist Kristian Bezuidenhout returns to Weill Recital Hall on Thursday, April 23 at 7:30 p.m. for a program of works by Weckmann, Purcell, Muffat, Couperin, Ritter, Froberger, and J.S. Bach.
April 25: I Fagiolini
On Saturday, April 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Weill Recital Hall, Robert Hollingworth directs vocal ensemble I Fagiolini in a fun evening of madrigals, chansons, and ensaladas—songs with mixtures of languages and rhythms written as entertainments for the Valencian court—entitled Insalata I Fagiolini (“The Little Beans”), with the program divided into meal courses (“Amuse-bouche,” “Entrée,” “Tapas y ensalada,” “Primo piatto,” “Sorbet,” and “Carne”).
April 30–May 1: Sir John Eliot Gardiner with the English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir
Concluding Carnegie Hall’s Before Bach focus, Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the English Baroque Soloists and The Monteverdi Choir in Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine on Thursday, April 30 at 8:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage. The following evening, Friday, May 1 at 8:00 p.m., Sir John Eliot Gardiner returns with the English Baroque Soloists, The Monteverdi Choir, select soloists and choir for a concert performance of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo.
Program Information
Tuesday, April 7 at 7:30 p.m.
Zankel Hall
L’ARPEGGIATA
Christina Pluhar, Artistic Director and Theorbo
Nuria Rial, Soprano
L’AMORE INNAMORATO: ARIAS BY FRANCESCO CAVALLI
FRANCESCO CAVALLI Sinfonia from Giasone
FRANCESCO CAVALLI “Piante Ombrose” from Calisto
FRANCESCO CAVALLI “Verginella, io morir vo” from Calisto
FRANCESCO CAVALLI “Ninfa bella” from Calisto
FRANCESCO CAVALLI “Piangete” from Egisto
FRANCESCO CAVALLI “Non è maggior piacere” from Calisto
FRANCESCO CAVALLI “Restino imbalsamente” from Calisto
MAURIZIO CAZZATI Ciaccona
FRANCESCO CAVALLI “Vieni, vieni in questo seno” from Rosinda
FRANCESCO CAVALLI “Che città” from Ormindo
LORENZO ALLEGRI Canario
FRANCESCO CAVALLI Sinfonia from Eliogabalo
FRANCESCO CAVALLI “Dammi morte” from Artemisia
FRANCESCO CAVALLI “L’Alma fiacca svani” from Didone
FRANCESCO CAVALLI “Alle ruine del mio regno” from Didone
Tickets: $62, $73
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Wednesday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m.
Zankel Hall
L’ARPEGGIATA
Christina Pluhar, Artistic Director
Nuria Rial, Soprano
Vincenzo Capezzuto, Alto
Gianluigi Trovesi, Clarinet
MUSIC FOR A WHILE: IMPROVISATIONS ON HENRY PURCELL
MAURIZIO CAZZATI Ciaccona
HENRY PURCELL “Music for a while”
HENRY PURCELL “‘Twas within a furlong of Edinborough Town” from The Mock Marriage
Improvisation: La Dia Spagnola
HENRY PURCELL “A Prince of glorious race descended”
HENRY PURCELL “One charming night” from The Fairy Queen
HENRY PURCELL “Ah! Belinda” from Dido and Aeneas
HENRY PURCELL “An Evening Hymn”
HENRY PURCELL “Strike the viol” from Come, ye sons of art away
HENRY PURCELL Dido’s Lament from Dido and Aeneas
HENRY PURCELL “Wondrous machine!” (Ode to St. Cecilia)
HENRY PURCELL “Two in one upon a ground” from Dioclesian
HENRY PURCELL “Here the Deities approve” from Welcome to all Pleasures
Improvisation: Canario
HENRY PURCELL “Man is for the woman made”
HENRY PURCELL “Curtain tune on a Ground”
HENRY PURCELL “Oh, let me weep” (The Plaint) from The Fairy Queen
HENRY PURCELL “Hark! How the songsters of the grove” from Timon of Athens
Pre-concert talk starts at 6:30 PM in Zankel Hall with Christina Pluhar in conversation with Jeremy Geffen, Director of Artistic Planning, Carnegie Hall.
Tickets: $62, $73
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Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 7:30 p.m.
Weill Recital Hall
POMERIUM
Alexander Blachly, Director
MUSIC FOR THE TUDOR QUEENS
For Mary Tudor (reigned 1553 – 1558):
THOMAS TALLIS “Te lucis ante terminum”
THOMAS TALLIS “Salvator mundi”
THOMAS TALLIS Gloria: Missa Puer natus est nobis
JOHN SHEPPARD “In manus tuas Domine”
THOMAS TALLIS Sanctus: Missa Puer natus est nobis
ROBERT WHITE “Regina caeli laetare”
THOMAS TALLIS Agnus Dei: Missa Puer natus est nobis
For Elizabeth I (reigned 1558 – 1603):
WILLIAM BYRD “Christe, qui lux es et dies”
THOMAS TALLIS “In jejunio et fletu”
THOMAS TALLIS “Derelinquat impius”
WILLIAM BYRD “O lux, beata Trinitas”
WILLIAM BYRD “In resurrectione tua”
WILLIAM BYRD “Haec Dies”
Reminiscences of the 16th Century:
HENRY PURCELL Fantasy Upon One Note, Z. 745 (set to text by Richard Crashaw)
HENRY PURCELL Fantasy No. 7 in C Minor, Z. 738 (set to text by John Donne)
Tickets: $60
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Sunday, April 12 at 2:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
LES VIOLONS DU ROY
LA CHAPELLE DE QUÉBEC
Richard Egarr, Conductor
Dorothea Röschmann, Soprano (Dido)
Henk Neven, Baritone (Aeneas)
Hélène Guilmette, Soprano (Belinda)
Vicki St. Pierre, Mezzo-Soprano (Sorceress)
Stefanie True, Soprano (Second Woman)
Lesley Emma Bouza, Soprano (First Witch)
Sheila Dietrich, Soprano (Second Witch)
Daniel Cabena, Countertenor (Spirit)
Jacques-Olivier Chartier, Tenor (Sailor)
Stephen Hegedus, Bass-Baritone
HENRY PURCELL from The Fairy Queen
•• Air
•• Rondeau
•• Scene of the Drunken Poet
•• Air (instrumental)
•• Prelude to “If Love’s a Sweet Passion”
HENRY PURCELL from King Arthur
•• Hornpipe
•• “How happy the lover”
HENRY PURCELL from The Fairy Queen
•• Dance for the Fairies
•• Monkeys’ Dance
•• “O let me weep”
•• Prelude
•• Chaconne
HENRY PURCELL Dido and Aeneas
Tickets: $34–$109
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Monday, April 13 at 7:30 p.m.
Weill Recital Hall
JORDI SAVALL, Viola da Gamba
THE SPIRIT OF THE VIOL
MONSIEUR DE SAINTE-COLOMBE LE FILS Prelude in E Minor
MARIN MARAIS “Marche Persane”
MARIN MARAIS Sarabande à l’Espagnol
MARIN MARAIS Musette and Tambourin, Suite d’un Goût Étranger
MONSIEUR DE SAINTE-COLOMBE LE FILS Fantaisie en Rondeau
JEAN DE SAINTE-COLOMBE “Les Pleurs”
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Bourrée II from Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major, BWV 1010
MARIN MARAIS La Musette from from Suite No. 7 in G Major, Troisième Livre
MARIN MARAIS Musette from from Suite No. 7 in G Major, Troisième Livre
SIEUR DE MACHY Prelude in D Minor
MARIN MARAIS “Les voix humaines”
MARIN MARAIS Musette No. 28 from Suite No. 4 in A Minor, Quatrième Livre
MARIN MARAIS Musette No. 29 from Suite No. 4 in A Minor, Quatrième Livre
MARIN MARAIS “La Sautillante”
TOBIAS HUME Selections from Musicall Humors
•• A Souldiers March
•• Captaine Hume’s Pavin
•• Souldiers Galliard
•• Harke, harke
•• Good againe
•• A Souldiers Resolution
ANON. The Bag-Pipes Tuning
•• A Pointe or Preludium
•• The Lancashire Pipes
•• The Pigges of Rumsey
•• Kate of Bardie
•• A Toye
TRADITIONAL (Irish) “The Cup of Tea”
TRADITIONAL (Scottish) “Regents Rant”
TRADITIONAL (Irish) “Crabs in the Skillet”
TRADITIONAL (Scottish) “The Sword Dance”
TRADITIONAL (Scottish) “Lord Moira”
TRADITIONAL (Scottish) “Lord Moira’s Hornpipe”
Tickets: $60
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Thursday, April 16 at 7:30 p.m.
Zankel Hall
LE CONCERT DES NATIONS
Jordi Savall, Director
ANON. Concert donné a Louis XIII en 1627 (selected by André Danican Philidor)
•• Les Ombres
•• Entrée de Mr. de Liancourt
•• Les Valets de la Faiste
•• Les Nimphes de la Grenouilliere
•• Les Bergers
•• Les Amériquains
JEAN DE SAINTE-COLOMBE Concert a deux violes égales
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY Suite from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY “Marche pour la Cérémonie Turque”
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY “Premiere Air des Espagnols”
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY “Second Air des Espagnols”
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY Gavotte
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY “Canaries”
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY “Chaconne des Scaramouches”
FRANÇOIS COUPERIN Prelude from Deuxième concert royal
FRANÇOIS COUPERIN Muzette, “Naïvement” from Troisième concert royal
FRANÇOIS COUPERIN “Chaconne légère” from Troisième concert royal
MARIN MARAIS Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU from Pièces de clavecin
•• La Forqueray
•• La Cupis
•• La Marais
JEAN BAPTISTE FORQUERAY “La du Vaucel”
JEAN BAPTISTE FORQUERAY “La Leclair”
JEAN-MARIE LECLAIR Sonata in D Major, Op. 2, No. 8
Funding for the Carnegie Hall Live broadcast series is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Public support for Carnegie Hall Live is made possible, in part, by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Tickets: $62, $73
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Friday, April 17 at 8:00 p.m.
Church of St. Ignatius Loyola
THE TALLIS SCHOLARS: SPEM IN ALIUM PROJECT
The Tallis Scholars
Carnegie Hall Chamber Chorus
Peter Phillips, Conductor
TOMÁS LUIS DE VICTORIA Kyrie: Missa Salve regina
ANTOINE BRUMEL Gloria: Missa Et ecce terrae motus
TOMÁS LUIS DE VICTORIA Credo: Missa Salve regina
ANTOINE BRUMEL Sanctus: Missa Et ecce terrae motus
ANTOINE BRUMEL Benedictus: Missa Et ecce terrae motus
TOMÁS LUIS DE VICTORIA Agnus Dei: Missa Salve regina
ORLANDO GIBBONS “O clap your hands”
THOMAS WEELKES “Gloria in Excelsis Deo”
THOMAS TALLIS “Audivi vocem”
ROBERT COWPER “Hodie, nobis caelorum rex”
THOMAS TALLIS “If ye love me”
JOHN SHEPPARD “Libera nos, salva nos,” I, II
THOMAS TALLIS “Spem in alium”
Tickets: $50, $60
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Saturday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m.
Weill Recital Hall
THE TALLIS SCHOLARS
Peter Phillips, Conductor
JOSQUIN DES PRÉZ “Gaude Virgo”
JOSQUIN DES PRÉZ Missa Pange lingua
WILLIAM BYRD “Cunctis diebus”
WILLIAM BYRD “Gaudeamus omnes”
WILLIAM BYRD “Timete Dominum”
WILLIAM BYRD “Iustorum animae”
WILLIAM BYRD “Beati mundo corde”
WILLIAM BYRD “Tribue, Domine”
Tickets: $60
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Monday, April 20 at 7:30 p.m.
Weill Recital Hall
FRETWORK
•• Asako Morikawa, Viol
•• Richard Boothby, Viol
•• Reiko Ichise, Viol
•• Richard Tunnicliffe, Viol
JOHN TAVERNER In Nomine
WILLIAM CORNYSHE “Fa la sol”
CHRISTOPHER TYE “Sit Fast”
ROBERT PARSONS In Nomine No. 3
ALFONSO FERRABOSCO I “A Fancy”
WILLIAM BYRD Fantasia in D Minor, No. 1
WILLIAM BYRD In Nomine
ORLANDO GIBBONS Fantasia No. 8, MB. 14
ORLANDO GIBBONS In Nomine No. 1
ROBERT PARSONS “Ut re me fa sol”
MATTHEW LOCKE Suite No. 3 in F Major
JOHN JENKINS Fantasy No. 7 in C Minor
JOHN JENKINS Fantasy No. 5 in F Major
HENRY PURCELL Fantasy No. 7 in C Minor, Z. 738
HENRY PURCELL Fantasy No. 12 in D Minor, Z. 743
HENRY PURCELL Fantasy No. 11 in G Major, Z. 742
Tickets: $60
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Thursday, April 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Weill Recital Hall
KRISTIAN BEZUIDENHOUT, Harpsichord
MATTHIAS WECKMANN Toccata in E Minor
HENRY PURCELL Prelude from Suite in G Minor, Z. 661
HENRY PURCELL Almand from Suite in G Minor, Z. 661
HENRY PURCELL Rondeau Minuet from The Gordian Knot Unty’d, Z. 597
HENRY PURCELL Round O from Abdelazer
HENRY PURCELL Ground in C Minor, Z. D221
GEORG MUFFAT Passacaglia from Apparatus musico-organisticus
LOUIS COUPERIN Prélude from Suite in C Major
CHRISTIAN RITTER Suite in C Minor from Möller Manuscript
LOUIS COUPERIN Passacaille in C Major
JOHANN JACOB FROBERGER Tombeau in C Minor, FbWV 632
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Partita No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828
Tickets: $60
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Saturday, April 25 at 7:30 p.m.
Weill Recital Hall
I FAGIOLINI
Robert Hollingworth, Director
INSALATA I FAGIOLINI
Amuse-bouche
LUDWIG SENFL “Das Gläut zu Speyer”
Entrée
CLÉMENT JANEQUIN “Or vien ca, vien, m’amye”
PIERRE SANDRIN “Puisque vivre en servitude,” S. 45
DOMINIQUE PHINOT “Plorez, mes yeulx”
CLAUDE LE JEUNE “Un gentil amoureux”
CLÉMENT JANEQUIN “Le chant des oiseaux”
Tapas y ensalada
ANON. “Claros y frescos rios”
JUAN VÁSQUEZ “‘Serrana dónde dormistes”
MATEO DA FLECHA “Teresica hermana”
MATEO DA FLECHA “El fuego”
Primo piatto
ORLANDO DE LASSUS “S’io esca vivo”
CIPRIANO DE RORE “Mia benigna fortuna”
ALESSANDRO STRIGGIO “D’ogni gratia e d’amor”
GIACHES DE WERT “Ascendente Jesu in naviculam”
Sorbet
GIOVANNI CROCE “Il gioco dell’Occa” from Triaca Musicale
Carne
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI “Sfogava con le stelle”
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI “Volgea l’anima mia soavemente”
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI “Longe da te, cor mio”
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI “Anima mia, perdona”
Tickets: $60
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Thursday, April 30 at 8:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS
MONTEVERDI CHOIR
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Conductor
Francesca Aspromonte, Soprano
Silvia Frigato, Soprano
Francesca Boncompagni, Mezzo-Soprano
Esther Brazil, Mezzo-Soprano
James Hall, Countertenor
John Lattimore, Countertenor
Krystian Adam, Tenor
Nicholas Mulroy, Tenor
Andrew Tortise, Tenor
Gareth Treseder, Tenor
Alexander Ashworth, Baritone
Robert Davies, Baritone
Gianluca Buratto, Bass
David Shipley, Bass
Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Dianne Berkun-Menaker, Artistic Director
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI Vespro della Beata Vergine
This concert is made possible, in part, by an endowment fund for choral music established by S. Donald Sussman in memory of Judith Arron and Robert Shaw.
Funding for the Carnegie Hall Live broadcast series is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Public support for Carnegie Hall Live is made possible, in part, by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Tickets: $34–$99
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Friday, May 1 at 8:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS
MONTEVERDI CHOIR
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Conductor
Francesca Aspromonte, Soprano
Silvia Frigato, Soprano
Francesca Boncompagni, Mezzo-Soprano
James Hall, Countertenor
John Lattimore, Countertenor
Krystian Adam, Tenor
Nicholas Mulroy, Tenor
Andrew Tortise, Tenor
Gareth Treseder, Tenor
Gianluca Buratto, Bass
David Shipley, Bass
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI L’Orfeo (concert performance)
Tickets: $34–$99
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