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SUMMARY:Opera Prima (ITALY)
DESCRIPTION:Tormento Seicento \nBuy tickets \nThe magnificent soprano Amanda Forsythe returns with viola da gamba virtuoso Cristiano Contadin and his renowned ensemble Opera Prima in a program of music exploring the Galant style that was in vogue during the middle of the 18th century. The complexity and formal structure of the Baroque gives way to a charismatic beauty and captivating elegance that was still grounded by a virtuosic basso continuo. \nAmerican soprano Amanda Forsythe\, celebrated for her performances on both sides of the Atlantic\, is a regular soloist with the highly acclaimed baroque ensembles Les Talens Lyriques\, the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra\, the Boston Early Music Festival\, the Handel and Haydn Society\, Boston Baroque\, Tafelmusik\, Apollo’s Fire\, Opera Prima\, Pacific Musicworks\, Early Music Vancouver\, and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. She sang Euridice on the recording of Charpentier’s La descente d’Orphée aux enfers with the Boston Early Music Festival which won the GRAMMY AWARD for Best Opera Recording. Her début solo album of Handel arias “The Power of Love” with Apollo’s Fire was recently followed with the highly praised “Heavenly Bach”. She toured with the outstanding French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky\, performing works based on the Orfeo myth\, and subsequently recorded the role of Euridice in a new edition of Gluck’s Orfeo for the ERATO label. Her discography includes more than 25 albums and DVDs\, many of them premiere recordings. Forthcoming discs include Handel’s Roman Cantatas with Opera Prima\, and Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona and a solo Telemann album\, both with the Boston Early Music Festival. \nOpera Prima\, a newly established ensemble directed by Cristiano Contadin\, was created to bring historically informed concerts and recordings of the Renaissance and Baroque period to life. The heart of the project lies in exploring the repertoire of the viola da gamba in its various styles\, and approaching all music with pleasure and enthusiasm\, as if each work for this instrument was newly-composed. If\, through passionate communication\, we can touch the hearts of the public\, then the language of early music will be easy to understand. \n\nThe first recording by Opera Prima\, “The Complete Telemann Trio Sonatas and Concertos”\, for the Brilliant Classics label\, received critical acclaim at the national and international level\, and was proclaimed by Classic Voice Magazine as CD of the month in February 2015. Opera Prima has performed concerts at festivals in Italy\, Greece\, Suisse\, Slovenia\, Estonia and United States. Recent Opera Prima recordings include Dowland’s Lacrimae (awarded “Disc of the Month” by Musica magazine and praised by Fanfare as “a fabulous performance”)\,Torna Vincitor\, an all-Graun disc of cantatas and viol concerto with Amanda Forsythe (chosen by Opera News as the Critic’s Choice in March 2021)\, a 2023 recording of Tartini (Klassik Heute claims Opera Prima “deliver[s] a buoyant orchestral sound with sensitively executed solos and decisive ensemble direction by Contadin\, who also captivates as a soloist with temperament\, empathy and sensitivity”). \n\nPROGRAMME: \nClaudio Monteverdi (1567 – 1643) \nSinfonia per strumenti dall’ VIII libro di madrigali \nLuigi Rossi (1697 – 1653) \nMio ben Aria  for soprano and continuo \nTarquinio Merula (1595 – 1665) \nBallo detto Eccardo for soprano and continuo \nDomenico Mazzocchi (1592 -1665) \nSdegno campion audace aria for soprano and continuo \nCipriano de Rore/ Girolamo Dalla Casa ( ? – 1601) \nAnchor che col partire madrigale diminuito per la viola bastarda and continuo \nBarbara Strozzi (1551 – 1618) \nChe si può fare aria for soprano and continuo \nGasparo Sartorio (1630 – 1680) \nPerché quando apersi a l’aure vitali aria for soprano and continuo \nFrancesco Cavalli (1602 – 1676) \nDammi morte aria for soprano and continuo from “Artemisia” \nGiovanni Kapsberger (1580 – 1651) \nCanario for solo theorbo \nBenedetto Ferrari (1603 – 1681) \nCantata spirituale for soprano and continuo \nMonteverdi \nVoglio di vita uscire for soprano and continuo \nMerula  \nBallo detto Pollicio for 2 voices\, basso and continuo \nKapsberger  \nArpeggiata for solo harp \nGiulio Caccini (1551 – 1618) \nAmarilli\, mia bella Amarilli \nAnonimo (XVII sec.) \ninglese Amarilli\, mia bella Amarilli \nMaurizio Cazzati (1616 – 1678) \nCiaccona a 3 and il balletto della ciaccona for violin\, cornetto and continuo \nRossi  \nLa bella più bella aria for soprano and continuo \nAndrea Falconieri (1585 – 1656) \nPassacalle a 3 for 2 voices\, basso and continuo \nFerrari  \nAmanti io vi so dire aria for voice\, 2 violins and continuo \nWatch Amanda Forsythe and Opera Prima perform Strozzi’s Che si può fare: \n 
URL:https://earlymusicsocietyoftheislands.ca/concert/opera-prima/
LOCATION:First Church of Christ\, Scientist\, 1205 Pandora Avenue\, Victoria\, BC\, V8V 3R3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Les Délices (USA)
DESCRIPTION:Moonlit Mozart \nBuy tickets \nLes Délices\, from New York\, performs some of the most beautiful music ever written for wind instruments\, in this program of Mozart’s wind octets. The voluptuous sound of oboes\, clarinets\, bassoons and horns becomes even richer when played on period instruments with flawless ensemble playing. \nIn late-18th century Vienna\, wind bands known as “Harmoniemusik” offered an effective – and colorful – means of presenting music in virtually any setting. Whether performing nocturnes or serenades\, dance music\, or even operatic or symphonic reductions\, an ensemble of eight woodwinds could cover most – if not all – bases. Soaring melodies were often split between first oboe and first clarinet\, inner parts were covered by other woodwinds and horns\, bassoons would alternate between tenor solos and bustling bass lines\, and a double bass often provided reinforcement on the low end. For Moonlit Mozart\, acclaimed oboist and Les Délices Artistic Director\, Debra Nagy\, brings together today’s finest period-instrument wind players for an “undeniably uplifting” all-Mozart program that includes original 18th-century arrangements of selections from The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni\, plus Mozart’s monumental Serenade in C minor (K388). \nPROGRAMME: \nWolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791) \nSelections from The Magic Flute \n1. Overture arr. Joseph Heidenreich \n3. Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja [Andante] \n7. Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön [Larghetto] \n5. Du feines Täubchen nur herein [Allegro] \n\nSerenade in Eb\, KV375  \nI. Allegro Maestoso \n\nSelections from The Marriage of Figaro \nCinque…dieci arr. Debra Nagy \nNon più andrai farfallone amoroso \nDove sono i bei momenti \nEcco la marcia \n\nInterval \n\nSelections from Don Giovanni \n1. Ouvertura arr. Josef Triebensee \n2. Notte e giorno a faticar \n5. Là ci darem la mano \n19. Gia la mensa è preparata \n\nSerenade in C minor “Nachtmusik\,” KV388 \nI. Allegro \nII. Andante \nIII. Menuetto in canone \nIV. Allegro [Tema con variazione] \nWatch and listen to Les Délices with an arrangement by Mozart’s contemporary\, Josef Triebensee\, of la ci darem la mano from Don Giovanni
URL:https://earlymusicsocietyoftheislands.ca/concert/les-delices-usa/
LOCATION:First Church of Christ\, Scientist\, 1205 Pandora Avenue\, Victoria\, BC\, V8V 3R3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Ensemble Clausulae (CANADA)
DESCRIPTION:Notre Dame – Laying the Cornerstone of Western Music \nBuy tickets \nA young novice monk travels from Canterbury to Paris to study at its famous school\, the Maîtrise Notre Dame de Paris\, witnessing the building of the great cathedral and the birth of polyphonic music. \nLet us take you back in time to the beginnings of the great Notre Dame de Paris. As it rises to dominate the skyline of Paris\, something profound is happening with music that will resound through the centuries. \nThis Special Event celebrates the building of Notre Dame and a seminal moment in the development of Western Music with the premiere of an original\, theatrical production: an imagined tale of a young novice monk who travels from Canterbury to Paris to study music. Over his lifetime\, he witnesses the building of the great cathedral and participates in some of the most consequential events in the early history of Western music. Two narrators and a group of vocal and instrumental ensembles making up Ensemble Clausulae will take the audience on an entertaining and illuminating journey through these formative years\, with Victoria’s gothic cathedral\, Christ Church Cathedral\, standing in for Notre Dame. Special guest\, Benjamin Bagby\, one of the foremost interpreters of medieval music over the past 40 years\, will travel here from Paris\, to contribute as a musical consultant and coach and fill the role of one of the narrators. \nMusic from the late 12th and early 13th centuries by Léonin\, Pérotin\, and Philippe Le Chancelier\, along with secular music of the time. \nNOTE: This Special Event is not eligible for Membership Package vouchers.
URL:https://earlymusicsocietyoftheislands.ca/concert/ensemble-clausulae-canada/
LOCATION:Christ Church Cathedral\, 911 Quadra Street at Rockland Avenue\, Victoria\, British Columbia\, V8V 3G8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Ensemble Caprice (CANADA)
DESCRIPTION:The King’s Music & Tavern Songs  \nBuy tickets \nAn EMSI favourite Ensemble Caprice\, led by the indefatigable Matthias Maute\, returns with music from Purcell to Handel\, interwoven with traditional music from the British Isles. \nFrom Purcell to Handel\, this program enters the vibrant musical world of the British Isles\, where the elegance of the court\, the brilliance of the theatre\, and the vitality of popular tradition were never far apart. Refined arias of longing and lament stand beside sparkling recorder concertos\, ground-bass variations\, and dances whose roots reach into taverns\, streets\, and country gatherings. \nThe recorder becomes both virtuoso voice and storyteller\, moving freely between grace and mischief\, courtly poise and rustic swing. Purcell’s theatrical imagination\, Handel’s Italianate brilliance\, and the earthy energy of anonymous tunes from the 18th century meet in a single\, beguiling musical language. \nThroughout the program\, high and low constantly trade places: a noble lament can sound disarmingly intimate\, while a popular tune may suddenly reveal the refinement of chamber music. With Ensemble Caprice\, Matthias Maute\, and soprano Janelle Lucyk\, this concert celebrates music that is sophisticated\, playful\, deeply expressive\, and irresistibly alive. Let the dance begin — and raise your glass! \nTentative programme: \nJacob van Eyck (c. 1590–1657) – Engels Nachtegaeltje \nHenry Purcell (1659–1695) – Three in One upon a Ground \nGeorge Frideric Handel (1685–1759) – Lascia ch’io pianga — from the opera Rinaldo \nFra tempeste — from the opera Giulio Cesare \nGeorge Frideric Handel (1685–1759) – Concerto per flautino\, two violins and basso continuo \nAllegro – Adagio – Allegro \nAnonymous (18th century) – Johnny Cock thy Beaver \nBudro \nThe Duke of Norfolk \nFrancesco Geminiani / Arcangelo Corelli (1687–1762 / 1653–1713) – La Follia \nHenry Purcell (1659–1695) – O let me weep — from the opera The Fairy Queen \nRemember me — from the opera Dido and Aeneas \nArcangelo Corelli (1653–1713) – Concerto per flauto (Tempo di Gavotta) \nHenry Purcell (1659–1695) – Dance Suite \nA New Scotch Tune – If Music Be the Food of Love – Fairest Isle – Chaconne from The Fairy Queen
URL:https://earlymusicsocietyoftheislands.ca/concert/ensemble-caprice-canada/
LOCATION:First Church of Christ\, Scientist\, 1205 Pandora Avenue\, Victoria\, BC\, V8V 3R3\, Canada
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