…in in that category in the entire 41-year history of the awards. Ockeghem@600: The Complete Works of Johannes Ockeghem (c.1420-1497) A thirteen–concert project over six years to perform all the surviving music of one of the greatest, yet least known composers of the western tradition – two dozen songs, a dozen masses, and four motets. A recording project to include every Ockeghem song and motet is now underway, with the first release slated for Sp…
The Iberian Songbook: Spanish Songs & Dances, 1450-1600 Saturday, April 14, 2018 at 3:00 (Family Concert) First Church in Cambridge, Congregational Saturday, April 14, 2018 at 8 PM First Church in Cambridge, Congregational Sunday, April 15, 2018 at 4 PM Parish of All Saints – Ashmont, Dorchester, MA Concert Program Book I ? Philippe Rogier (c. 1561-1596) Cancion (strings) Pierre-Francisque Caroubel (1556-1611 or 1615) Pavane de Spaigne (dance) Ju…
Un petrarchino cantato: Petrarch’s Canzoniere in Song April 30, 2015 at 8:00 PM Christ Episcopal Church, Binghampton, NY Presented by Binghampton University (Conference on The Italian Songbook) Voi ch’ ascoltate in rime sparse Giaches de Wert (1535-96) Madrigale del fiore, libro secondo (Venice, 1561) Chiare fresche et dolci acque Eustache de Monte Regali (d. 1527?) Ottaviano Petrucci, Frottole libro undecimo (Venice, 1514) Quante volte diss’ io…
…ct, The Boston Camerata, and other leading US ensembles. Tom moved to Philadelphia and, in 1997, met Lillian Nye, a Unitarian Universalist minister and amateur musician. They married on Oct. 6, 2001. Tom and Lilli moved to Boston in 2002 and this became the home base from which Tom continued his freelance performance and teaching and directed the Collegium Musicum at Wellesley College from 2003 to 2015. Tom’s versatility as a multi-instrumentalist…
…omposers represented (twenty- nine, plus one anonymous) range from those widely admired both at the time and also today, such as Robert Fayrfax and John Taverner, whose careers are relatively well documented and whose music is ubiquitous in sources of the period, to the most obscure, such as Hugh Sturmy, whose careers have yet to be traced and whose music survives nowhere else. The musical quality of the collection is generally very high, and many…
…Society, which provided stimulus funding for the project. Next CD > BHCD 1009 Release Date: October 4, 2019 Download Booklet Track Listing (For each madrigal there is a reading, followed by a musical track) Disc 1 1-2 Cantai mentre ch’i’ arsi del mio foco (1:04, 4:08) 3-4 Hor che ’l ciel et la terra e ’l vento tace (1:09, 5:24) 5-6 Poggiand’al ciel coll’ali del desio (:59, 4:53) 7-8 Quand’io son tutto volto in quella parte (1:04, 5:32) 9-10 Solea…
…s part of a Conference on the Italian Madrigal 1. Cantai mentre ch’i’ arsi del mio foco ballata, Giovanni Brevio (d. after 1549), Rime (1545) 2. Hor che ’l ciel et la terra e ’l vento tace sonnet, Francesco Petrarca (1304-74), Canzoniere 164 3. Poggiand’al ciel coll’ali del desio sonnet, anonymous 5. Solea lontana in sonno consolarme sonnet, Petrarca, Canzoniere 250 7. Strane rupi, aspri monti, alte tremanti sonnet, Niccolò Amanio (1478/9-before 1…
…rfeo, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, and L’incoronazione di Poppea, and Handel’s Acis and Galatea. He sang the title role in BEMF’s recording of Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers, which won Best Opera Recording at the 2015 Grammy Awards. Aaron has appeared worldwide at venues including the Tanglewood Festival, Lincoln Center, Concertgebouw, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Gran Teatro Nacional del Perú, Beethoven Festival Warsaw, Boston Sym…
…sitive stage presence, tenor Alexander Nishibun has been singled out as “a delight…capable of stealing the show with a gesture” (Portland Press Herald). Nishibun performs widely in the greater Boston area and collaborates with ensembles throughout the US, singing with Vox Humana, Les Canards Chantants, Cappella Clausura, the Handel & Haydn Society, Kinnara Ensemble, and the Skylark Vocal Ensemble. He has appeared with the Portland Opera Young Arti…
…ny Orchestra and the Lorelei Ensemble, Bach’s St. John Passion with the Handel & Haydn Society, Knussen’s Symphony No. 2 with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center debuts with the New York City Chamber Orchestra. A champion of modern music, Sonja curated the award-winning touring program Modern Dickinson (www.moderndickinson.com) and launched the recital project BeatSong for soprano and percussion. She sings wit…
…SanlΔ±kol: Renaissance Polyphony & Turkish Makam Wednesday, November 18, 7:00 pm via Zoom Scott Metcalfe, Artistic Director Contact: Kathleen Brittan, Executive Director 978-395-1145 or kathleen@blueheron.org The first of Blue Heron’s newly created Spotlight Sessions will feature a taste of Many Voices, our March 2020 concert now rescheduled for the 2021-2022 season. Composer Mehmet Ali SanlΔ±kol will provide an introduction to the Turkish modes (m…
…h modality, devised originally for monophonic chant, into polyphony. The models he established here would dominate music by composers such as Palestrina and Lassus for the rest of the century. But there is more. The book opens with a ballata by an unnamed poet who would subsequently be revealed to be the Venetian priest and novelist Giovanni Brevio. This poem functions like a proem or introduction to a previously unrecognized cycle of sixteen sonn…
Blue Heron is engaged in the exploration of Renaissance and medieval vocal music, putting the study of original sources in the service of vivid live performance. Widely regarded as the finest ensemble of its type in North America, Blue Heron presents a subscription series in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a catalog of exceptional recordings is available on the Blue Heron label. The ensembleβs accolades include the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music, making Blue Heron the first group from outside Europe to receive the award; the Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society; and the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Touring engagements have taken the group across the United States as well as to Canada and England. Blue Heron is early music for the 21st century.
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