Connecticut Early Music Festival 26th edition
Musica a Roma. Eternal City, Eternal Music
The music presented in most of the concerts has some connection to Rome, a city that has been alive with music for three millennia. Rome's musical interactions with the rest of Europe fostered works that are as evocative and eternal as the city itself.
- Friday, June 13, 2008 - Mystic Arts Center, Mystic
Trefoil
'That's Amore! Love and Music in Fourteenth-Century Italy'
Trefoil (Drew Minter, Mark Rimple, Marcia Young) combines countertenor and soprano voices with harp and lute in a program exploring musical expressions of love in the era of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Madrigals, ballate, and caccias offer a window into the courtly love of the period, while sacred repertory demonstrates love in the spiritual realm.
- Saturday, June 14, 2008 - Harkness Chapel, Connecticut College, New London
Ciaramella
'Gli Oltremontati. Music from Over the Mountains'
Ciaramella offers a program of Northern music from Italian manuscripts, demonstrating the great southern migration of musicians and music in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
- Sunday, June 15, 2008
- St. John’s Episcopal Church, Niantic
Robert Crowe, male soprano with Kenneth Hamrick, organ
‘Domine! The Virtuoso Solo Motets of Giacomo Carissimi’
With his flare for dramatic gestures and rhetorical flourishes, Roman composer Giacomo Carissimi (1605 - 1674) might well be considered the inventor of the oratorio. His solo motets are composed in the same vein, and Robert Crowe is uniquely suited to interpret them.
- Saturday, June 21, 2008
- Lyman Allyn Museum, Connecticut College, New London
Boston Hausmusik
‘The Roman Connection: Italian Influence on Classical Style’
Though we usually associate classical style with music composed in 18th-century Vienna, many aspects of it have their roots in Italy. Boston Hausmusik (Sylvia Berry, fortepiano; Abigail Karr, violin; Kate Bennett Haynes, cello) explore these aspects in works by Lodovico Giustini (1685 - 1743), the first composer to publish sonatas specifically for the piano.
- Sunday, June 22, 2008
- Christ the King Church, Old Lyme, CT
Exsultemus
'Tomas Luis de Victoria and the Spanish ‘Nation’ in Rome’
Beginning in 1492, Spaniards began an unprecedented period of cultural domination. They succeeded in capturing the last Moorish stronghold in Granada, in beginning to colonize the Americas, and, with the election of Roderigo Borgia as the first Spanish pope, in achieving unparalleled access to the Papacy. The Spanish influence in Rome (and the New World) was palpable for the next two centuries, not least in the area of liturgical music. Exsultemus presents some of the most powerful and widely-traveled music by Spanish composers active in Rome during the sixteenth century, including some of Tomas Luis de Victoria’s moving Lamentations for Holy Week.
- Sunday, June 29, 2008 - Evans Hall, Connecticut College, New London
Connecticut Early Music Festival Productions
After studying with the more famous Arcangelo Corelli in Rome, Francesco Gasparini (1661 - 1727) became so successful as an opera composer in Venice that Charles III of Spain invited the composer to establish Barcelona as an operatic center. Gasparini declined, but he did compose a grand accademia - a secular cantata of operatic proportions - in honor of Charles’s marriage. In the final concert of the festival, Connecticut Early Music Festival Productions performs excerpts from Gasparini’s unknown masterwork as well as a Concerto Grosso by Corelli, his teacher.
Monday, June 16, 2008
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