“ i find the Carlophilipemanuelbachomania grow upon me so, that almost every thing else is insipid to me.”
Thomas Twining, letter to Charles Burney, 1774
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The south-east corner of Sicily is blessed with many delights, among them a number of gorgeous 18th- and 19th-century theatres. This festival presents five performances in a selection of these atmospheric buildings, all of which are located amid breathtakingly beautiful Baroque towns and cities. Stay throughout in historic Ortygia, one of the loveliest coastal towns in Italy.
MARTIN RANDALL FESTIVALS bring together world-class musicians for a sequence of private concerts in Europe’s most glorious buildings, many of which are not normally accessible. We take care of all logistics, from flights and hotels to pre-concert talks. Festivals in 2024 also include: Salzburg String Quartet Festival (7–12 May), Mozart Along the Danube (28 July–4 August) and The Divine Office (30 September–4 October).
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Seeds of Knowledge: Early Modern Illustrated Herbals
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Morgan’s Bibles: Splendor in Scripture
October 20, 2023 through January 21, 2024
Spirit and Invention: Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo
October 27, 2023 through January 28, 2024
Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality
November 10, 2023 through March 10, 2024
Lindsay Kate Brown, mezzo-soprano
Alex Munger, piano
George and Nora London Foundation for Singers
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Tuesday, October 31, 2023
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I Gemelli
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Thursday, November 16, 2023 7:30 pm
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The concert program is made possible by assistance from Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky, the Joan and Alan Ades-Taub Family Foundation, the Esther Simon Charitable Trust, the Witherspoon Fund of the New York Community Trust, the Theodore H. Barth Foundation, and the following endowed funds: the Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund for Concerts and Lectures; and the Celia Ascher Endowment Fund.
Upper: Lindsay Kate Brown, photography by Elizabeth Hoard, Kristin Hoebermann, and Jiyang Chen Lower: Leaf of a Register of Creditors of a Bolognese Lending Society, Italy, Bologna, ca. 1390–1400. Single leaf. The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.1056, fol. 1v detail.We are delighted to welcome you to the opening concert of our 34th Season! This past year was one of remarkable achievements for BEMF. We saw the thrilling return of our live biennial Festival; recorded two new CDs with our partners in Bremen, Germany; presented our annual series of concerts here in Boston and at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York; and made our operatic début in Miami as part of our Chamber Opera Series tour of Lully’s Idylle sur la Paix and Charpentier’s La Fête de Rueil.
But this year promises even more! Our new concert season features both thrilling new talents and familiar friends: this evening, for the first of our ten presentations, we invite you to a feast. Your hosts, both musical and culinary, are the combined talents of Cappella Pratensis, making their BEMF début, and Sollazzo Ensemble, fresh from their enthralling Festival début this past June. The singers and instrumentalists of these brilliant ensembles will weave a luxurious tapestry that captures the remarkable sophistication of the Feast of the Swan, held annually in the Renaissance by the Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Blessed Lady, in the Dutch city of ’s-Hertogenbosch—Den Bosch—then also called “little Rome.”
We hope you enjoy the performance this evening, and that you will return for exciting programs to follow in 2023. They begin just two weeks from tonight, in New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, when we welcome Le Poème Harmonique, directed by Vincent Dumestre, who most recently appeared on the BEMF stage in 2017. These artists will take us into the salons and kitchens of the Louvre Palace for music heard in the early French Baroque, with offerings by Lully, Charpentier, Lalande, and many others. Then, on Saturday, November 18, come again to Jordan Hall and celebrate the return of one of BEMF’s favorites, the incisive tenor Zachary Wilder, who will partner with fellow tenor Emiliano Gonzalez Toro and his ensemble I Gemelli for a program of expressive and dazzling duets from the rich repertoire of the early Italian Baroque. And the following weekend, Jordan Hall is the venue once more for BEMF’s spectacular new Chamber Opera Series production, The Dragon of Wantley.
Thank you for joining us for tonight’s performance, whether live or virtually, and as always, please accept our heartfelt thanks for your continued support of and enthusiasm for the Boston Early Music Festival.
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Vivian Day
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John Krzywicki
Kathryn Kucharski
Robert E. Kulp, Jr.
Ellen Kushner
Christopher Laconi
Lois A. Lampson
Thomas G. MacCracken
William Magretta
Bill McJohn
Miles Morgan
Nancy Netzer
Amy H. Nicholls
James S. Nicolson
Bettina A. Norton
Scott Offen
Lorna E. Oleck
Henry P.M. Paap
James M. Perrin
Bici Pettit-Barron
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Melvyn Pond
Paul Rabin
Christa Rakich
Lee S. Ridgway
Michael Rigsby
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Michael Robbins
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Thomas Roney
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Valerie Sarles
David W. Scudder
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Peggy Ueda
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Stratton Bull, Artistic Director
Anna Danilevskaia, Artistic Director
Music and merriment from the Dutch Renaissance
Sicut lilium inter spinas
Antoine Brumel (ca. 1460–ca. 1512/13)
Ave Maria plainsong; polyphonic extemporization attributed to Jacobus Clemens non Papa (ca. 1510/15–1555/56)
Ick had een boelken (Oeverloos) Anonymous and Marc Busnel (music); Eric Alink (new text)
Missa Benedicti (Ick had een boelken) Benedictus Appenzeller (ca. 1480/88–after 1558)
Kyrie
Gloria
Pour prison (instrumental) Johannes Pullois (d. 1478)
Duo (instrumental) Alexander Agricola (ca. 1446–1506) and Johannes Ghiselin (fl. 1491–1507)
Regina caeli (instrumental) Jacob Obrecht (ca. 1457–1505)
Je veulx chanter (instrumental) Guillaume Dufay (1397–1474)
Myns liefkens bruyn ooghen Appenzeller
Missa Myns liefkens bruyn ooghen Jheronimus Vinders (fl. 1510–1550) Sanctus
Dictes moy toutes voz pensées Loyset Compère (ca. 1445–1518)
Een vroulic wesen (instrumental)
Matthaeus Pipelare (ca. 1450–ca. 1515)
Le grant désir d’aymer m’y tient Compère
Missa Benedicti (Ick had een boelken) Appenzeller
Agnus Dei
Ave Maria Clemens non Papa
LIVE CONCERT
Friday, October 13, 2023 at 8pm First Church in Cambridge, Congregational 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Saturday, October 28, 2023 – Saturday, November 11, 2023
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Stratton Bull, superius
Andrew Hallock, superius & master of ceremonies
Tim Braithwaite, superius
Lior Leibovici, contratenor
Peter de Laurentiis, tenor
Marc Busnel, bassus
Anna Danilevskaia, vihuela de arco
Filipa Meneses, vihuela de arco
Christoph Sommer, Renaissance lute
Mara Winter, traverso
Program subject to change.
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This concert is organized with the cooperation of Middleton Arts Management, exclusive North American management for Cappella Pratensis.
At the beginning of the Renaissance, the southern Dutch city of ’s-Hertogenbosch, with its abundance of churches and monasteries, was also known as “little Rome.” A central role in this religious scene was held by the Confraternity of Our Illustrious Lady. This devotional organization had been founded in 1317; its members were both clergymen and laypersons, including women, and it was devoted to acts of piety and charity. By the end of the fifteenth century, it had become a wealthy and prestigious organization, counting among its members the most prominent figures in the community. To this day, King Willem-Alexander and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands are members of the confraternity, as was William of Orange in the sixteenth century. Other notable members included the famous painter Hieronymus Bosch. Liturgical activities, including weekly sung services, held immense importance for the confraternity. Its choir, recognized as one of the best in Europe, performed a wide range of polyphonic music in its own chapel within the magnificent St. John’s Cathedral.
Thanks to the rich archival documents of the Confraternity, and especially thanks to its incredible collection of beautiful choirbooks, both manuscript and in print, we have a reasonably clear understanding of the splendor of its music chapel. The chapel employed extraordinary singers who were often recruited from distant places and also engaged or hosted famous composers such as Matthaeus Pipelare, Pierre de la Rue, Thomas Crecquillon, Nicolas Gombert, and Jacobus Clemens non Papa.
In addition to the weekly services, the confraternity and its chapel of singers provided and performed elaborately crafted liturgies on the most important feast days. These included most Marian feasts and the feasts of other significant patrons of the confraternity, namely St. John the Evangelist, St. Mary Magdalene, and St. Anne. Every year, on the Monday after the Feast of the Holy Innocents (December 28), they organized a grand banquet known as the Zwanenmaaltijd (Swan banquet), where one or more swans were featured on the menu. This was considered a very exclusive delicacy at the time, which is why the key members of the confraternity came to be known as Zwanenbroeders (Swan brothers). This program is our attempt to evoke that annual banquet, featuring a blend of devotional and secular music that was likely performed with both voices and instruments.
From the documents, especially the account books that mention the banquet, we know that sacred music was performed, and that the banquet began and ended with the singing of an Ave Maria. Instruments played a role in the banquet since the records show that the confraternity owned a set of violen, and their use was never mentioned in the liturgical services conducted within the chapel. Furthermore, the documents also make reference to the performance of motets and other “sweet songs” during the banquets, clearly indicating that secular music was permitted and enjoyed on such occasions.
Regarding the specific musical selections for our program, we chose to rely as much as possible
on the surviving sources of the confraternity. These sources only contain sacred music, so we had to make educated guesses about which secular music might have been performed on such occasions, even though no specific compositions are mentioned in the documents. One approach we adopted extensively was to closely examine the confraternity’s sacred repertoire in search of potential clues for our choice of secular music.
Some of the mass cycles copied in the choirbooks use famous secular songs of the time as their polyphonic models. For instance, the beautifully poignant and evocative Dictes moy toutes voz pensées by Loyset Compère served as the basis for a four-voice mass composed by Jean Mouton, a work found in the confraternity’s choirbooks. Another example is the Dutch song Ick had een boelken, of which only the top part has survived, without its original text. Our singer and master contrapuntalist, Marc Busnel, completed the song by adding the missing three voices, while Dutch poet Eric Alink produced a new text, which explores the extremes of one person’s affection for a swan…
This song served as a model for the Missa Ick had een boelken, which is also found in one of the confraternity’s choirbooks. Musicologist Eric Jas has proven this to be the work of Benedictus Appenzeller. From this beautiful mass we sing the Kyrie, the Gloria, and the Agnus Dei, which ends with a spectacular quadruple inversion canon (whereby four
voices sing the piece normally while the other four start at the end and sing backwards until the beginning!). The final piece in this category is the beautiful Dutch song by Appenzeller, Mijns liefkens bruijn ooghen (My love’s brown eyes), on which Jheronimus Vinders based a mass from which we’ll perform the Sanctus.
Other chansons that were widely circulated and likely performed on similar occasions include Een vroulic wesen, presented here in the version by Pipelare, who served as the sangmeester of the confraternity between 1498 and 1500, and another dramatic chanson by Compère, Le grant désir.
Finally, the beautifully concise motet Sicut lilium inter spinas by Antoine Brumel was an obvious choice, as it served as the confraternity’s motto. This motto appeared not only on its coat of arms but also on the pewter jugs that the Swan brothers used to consume the (sometimes abundant) wine served at the banquets. With six singers and four instrumentalists, Cappella Pratensis and Sollazzo Ensemble take you back to latemedieval Brabant. One of our singers, Andrew Hallock, will play the role of Master of Ceremonies, just like one of the Swan brothers was expected to do at the time, so that you can imagine yourself in the middle of the grand banquet and experience the festive music that was played and sung. n
—Peter de Laurentiis
The vocal ensemble Cappella Pratensis is preeminently the specialist in polyphonic masterpieces from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, particularly from the Low Countries. Standing around a central music stand or projection screen, the ensemble sings from facsimile editions of original choirbooks, so straight from the source. Concerts are thoroughly prepared and scientifically substantiated. Cappella Pratensis works closely together with the Alamire Foundation, International Center for the Study of Music in the Low Countries (University of Leuven).
Cappella Pratensis performs regularly at leading international festivals and concert series throughout Europe, North and South America, and Japan. The group has been ensemble-in-residence at Harvard University, the Fondation Royaumont in France, and Boston University, giving courses, presenting concerts, and working with distinguished musicians. Its CD recordings have met with critical acclaim and distinctions from the press (including the Diapason d’Or and the Prix Choc). Gramophone magazine recognized the ensemble’s recording of the Ockeghem Requiem as the best out of more than twenty recordings made over the last forty years.
In contrast to its traditional productions, Cappella Pratensis regularly collaborates with surprising partners such as dance companies, jazz musicians, and theater makers. n
Sollazzo Ensemble brings together musicians with a keen interest in late Medieval and early Renaissance music. Founded in 2014 by Anna Danilevskaia, the ensemble benefits from the diverse musical backgrounds of its members, who not only not work in the early music field but also modern classical, folk, and jazz music.
Critically acclaimed for their highly expressive delivery, the musicians rely on historical repertoires and informed performance criteria in order to convey feelings they have personally experienced, or to make statements that are meaningful to them. This process of appropriation is the basis of their communication with the public, as they aim to give every piece a strong, timeless identity which goes beyond purely musical intentions.
Since 2014, Sollazzo has won many prestigious competitions and awards including the York Early Music Competition, and has received the NCEM Prize in addition to the Cambridge Early Music Prize. The ensemble was the beneficiary of the Emerging Young Artists program—supported by Creative Europe— followed by a collaboration with the CCR d’Ambronay as associated ensemble between 2017 and 2020.
Sollazzo leads an active concert schedule, performing throughout Europe, the United States, and Asia. n
Sicut lilium inter spinas — Antoine Brumel
Sicut lilium inter spinas, sic amica mea inter filias.
—Song of Songs 2:2
Ave Maria — Plainchant; Jacobus Clemens non Papa
Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum.
Benedicta tu in mulieribus, Alleluia.
Ick had een boelken — Anonymous and Marc Busnel
Oeverloos
Ick had een boelken uutvercoren om oerverloos te minnen; in water ziltig, zoet of brak vervloeien onze zinnen.
Naar pauw, patrijs of purperhoen kan ik geen hunker voelen
’k wil enkel na een zwanenzoen in kroos of rietkraag kroelen
Gij lokt mij met uw lome lust met donzen dekbedogen
Oh zwoele zwaan, als gij mij kust is elke schroom gevlogen
’k Wil spelevaren in uw schoot Uw binnenzee beproeven bij eb en vloed en elke stoot in uwe diepte toeven
In trance voel ik uw minnedans uw zwieren op mijn zwengel de zwanenzwans, een liefdeslans omstrengel hem, mijn engel
Ons liefdessop spat lustig op het parelt in uw veren Ga door! Versnel! Zeg nimmer stop! in u wil ik verkeren
Kom zaligheid! Kom zwaan-kleef-aan! we schokken zonder luwen
Zwaaaahaaaaahaaaaahaaaaahaaahaan! mijn hartstocht is de uwe.
—Eric Alink
As the lily among the thorns, so is my love among the daughters. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, Alleluia. Boundless I chose me a sweety-pie to love without limits; in silty, sweet or stagnant water, our senses flow together.
I feel nothing for peacocks, partridges or purple hens: I only want a swan kiss and then some fun in the weeds and the reeds. You woo me with your steamy lust and your feathery duvet-eyes. Oh horny swan when you kiss me my decency flies out the window. I wanna play in your lap, swim in your sea, and explore your depths with every thrust, at high tide or low.
In a trance I feel your love-dance, as you gyrate on my crank; de swan-cock is a love-lance: embrace it, my angel!
Our love-sap splashes lustily in droplets on your feathers. Go on! Faster! Don’t ever stop! I wanna get into you.
Come bliss! Come sticky swan! We jolt without slowing, Swaaaaahaaahaaan! My passion is yours.
Missa Benedicti (Ick had een boelken) — Benedictus Appenzeller
Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison.
Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in terra pax hominibus bone voluntatis.
Laudamus te. Benedicimus te. Adoramus te. Glorificamus te. Gratias agimus tibi, propter magnam gloriam tuam. Domine Deus, rex celestis, Deus Pater omnipotens, Domine, Fili Unigenite Jesu Christe, Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius Patris.
Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis; qui tollis peccata mundi, suscipe deprecationem nostram. Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris, miserere nobis.
Quoniam tu solus sanctus tu solus Dominus tu solus Altissimus Jesu Christe. Cum Sancto Spiritu in gloria Dei Patris. Amen.
Pour prison — Johannes Pullois (instrumental)
Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us.
Glory be to God on high, and on earth peace to men of good will.
We praise you. We bless you, We worship you. We glorify you. We give thanks to you for your great glory.
Lord, God, heavenly king, God the Father almighty, Lord, the only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father.
You who take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us; You who take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. You who sit at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us.
For you alone are holy, you alone are the Lord, you alone are the most high, Jesus Christ with the Holy Spirit in the glory of God the Father. Amen.
Duo — Alexander Agricola and Johannes Ghiselin (instrumental)
Regina caeli — Jacob Obrecht (instrumental)
Je veulx chanter — Guillaume Dufay (instrumental)
Myns liefkens bruyn ooghen — Benedictus Appenzeller
Myns liefkens bruyn ooghen en haren lachende mont, die doen my pyn en dooghen in alder stont; dat ic se sien noch spreken mach, dat claeg ick god en mynen oogen: ick ben bedroghen!
My darling’s brown eyes And her smiling lips, Cause me pain and anguish
At every hour. That I cannot see her nor speak to her, For that I complain to God and to my eyes: I have been betrayed!
Missa Myns liefkens bruyn ooghen — Jheronimus Vinders
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth.
Pleni sunt celi et terra gloria tua. Hosanna in excelsis. Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini. Hosanna in excelsis.
Holy, Holy, Holy Lord, God of Hosts. Heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
Dictes moy toutes voz pensées — Loyset Compère
Dictes moy toutes voz pensées, Car j’ay désir de les savoir; Otrois moy ce bien avoir, Affin qu’elles soient excusées.
Een vroulic wesen — Matthaeus Pipelare (instrumental)
Tell me all your thoughts. For I desire to know them; Grant me this favor, So that they may be forgiven.
Le grant désir d’aymer m’y tient — Loyset Compère
Le grant désir d’aymer m’y tient, Quant de la belle me souvient, Et du joly temps qui verdoye. Et hoye!
“Belle, je viens pars devers vous Pour avoir plaisir et secours: Vostre amour trop fort me guerroye. Et hoye!”
“Bienviengnez, amy, par amours; Or me dictes: que querez-vous? Vous fault rien que de moy j’aye? Et hoye!”
“Belle, par raison me convient Dire d’amours ce qu’apartient Que vostre amy tenu je soye. Et hoye!”
“Je suys celle qui rien ne tient A son amy, quant il y vient; Bien vous en monstreray la voye. Et hoye!”
“Ce faulx jaloux souvent y vient: Lequel m’a dict qu’il me convient De laisser l’amoureuse voye. Et hoye!”
I am taken by the great desire to love When I remember that beautiful woman And the pretty green season. And hoye!
“Beauty, here I am in front of you To get pleasure and be rescued: Your love, so strong, is warring with me. And hoye!”
“You are welcome to be here, by love. Tell me, though: what are you looking for? Anything that I have? And hoye!”
“Beauty, it is reason that, Out of love, I tell you that You should hold me as your friend. And hoye!”
“I am one who is not held back From her lover, when he comes to see her; I will show you the path. And hoye!”
“This false jealous man comes often: The same man has told me I Have to give up the path of love. And hoye!”
“Maiz, mon amy, c’est pour neant. Car quant de vous il me souvient, Mon cueur vit et volle de joye. Et hoye!”
“But, my friend, this is of no avail, Since when I think of you My heart lives and flies with joy. And hoye!”
Missa Benedicti (Ick had een boelken) — Benedictus Appenzeller
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.
Ave Maria — Jacobus Clemens non Papa
Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum.
Benedicta tu in mulieribus, Alleluia.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant us peace.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, Alleluia.
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The Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) is universally recognized as a leader in the field of early music. Since its founding in 1980 by leading practitioners of historical performance in the United States and abroad, BEMF has promoted early music through a variety of diverse programs and activities, including an annual concert series that brings early music’s brightest stars to the Boston and New York concert stages, and the biennial weeklong Festival and Exhibition, recognized as “the world’s leading festival of early music” (The Times, London). Through its programs BEMF has earned its place as North America’s premier presenting organization for music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods and has secured Boston’s reputation as “America’s early music capital” (Boston Globe).
One of BEMF’s main goals is to unearth and present lesser-known Baroque operas performed by the world’s leading musicians armed with the latest information on period singing, orchestral performance, scenic design, costuming, dance, and staging. BEMF operas reproduce the Baroque’s stunning palette of sound by bringing together today’s leading operatic superstars and a wealth of instrumental talent from across the globe to one stage for historic presentations, all zestfully led from the pit by the BEMF Artistic Directors Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, and creatively reimagined for the stage by BEMF Opera Director Gilbert Blin.
The twenty-second biennial Boston Early Music Festival, A Celebration of Women,
was held in June 2023 and featured Henry Desmarest’s 1694 opera Circé from a libretto by Louise-Geneviève Gillot de Saintonge, which saw the return of the Boston Early Music Festival Dance Company, a troupe of dancers under the guidance of BEMF Dance Director Melinda Sullivan. The twenty-third Festival, in June 2025, will have as its centerpiece Reinhard Keiser’s 1705 opera Octavia.
BEMF introduced its Chamber Opera Series during its annual concert season in November 2008, with a performance of John Blow’s Venus and Adonis and Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Actéon. The series focuses on the wealth of chamber operas composed during the Baroque period, while providing an increasing number of local opera aficionados the
opportunity to attend one of BEMF’s superb offerings. Subsequent annual productions include George Frideric Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, combined performances of Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs, Monteverdi’s Orfeo, a double bill of Pergolesi’s La serva padrona and Livietta e Tracollo, a production titled “Versailles” featuring Les Plaisirs de Versailles by Charpentier, Les Fontaines de Versailles by Michel-Richard de Lalande, and divertissements from Atys by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Francesca Caccini’s Alcina, the first opera written by a woman, a combination of Telemann’s Pimpinone and Ino, and most recently joint performances of Lully’s Idylle sur la Paix and Charpentier’s La Fête de Rueil. Acis and Galatea was revived and presented on a four-city North American Tour in early 2011, which included a performance at the American
Handel Festival in Seattle, and in 2014, BEMF’s second North American Tour featured the Charpentier double bill from 2011.
BEMF has a well-established and highly successful project to record some of its groundbreaking work in the field of Baroque opera. The first three recordings in this series were all nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording, in 2005, 2007, and 2008: the 2003 Festival centerpiece Ariadne, by Johann Georg Conradi; Lully’s Thésée; and the 2007 Festival opera, Lully’s Psyché, which was hailed by BBC Music Magazine as “superbly realized…magnificent.” In addition, the BEMF recordings of Lully’s Thésée and Psyché received Gramophone Award Nominations in the Baroque Vocal category in 2008 and 2009, respectively. BEMF’s next three recordings on the German CPO label were drawn from its Chamber Opera Series: Charpentier’s Actéon, Blow’s Venus and Adonis, and a release of Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs, which won the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording and the 2015 Echo Klassik Opera Recording of the Year (17th/18th Century Opera). Agostino Steffani’s Niobe, Regina di Tebe, featuring Philippe Jaroussky and Karina Gauvin, which was released in January 2015 on the Erato/Warner Classics label in conjunction with a seven-city, four-country European concert tour of the opera, has been nominated for a Grammy Award, was named Gramophone’s Recording of the Month for March 2015, is the 2015 Echo Klassik World Premiere Recording of the Year, and has received a 2015 Diapason d’Or de l’Année and
a 2015 Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Handel’s Acis and Galatea was released in November 2015. In 2017, while maintaining the focus on Baroque opera, BEMF expanded the recording project to include other select Baroque vocal works: a new Steffani disc, Duets of Love and Passion, was released in September 2017 in conjunction with a sixcity North American tour, and a recording of Johann Sebastiani’s St. Matthew Passion was released in March 2018. Four Baroque opera releases followed in 2019 and 2020: a disc of Charpentier’s chamber operas Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Les Arts Florissants was released at the June 2019 Festival, and has been nominated for a Grammy Award; the 2013 Festival opera, Handel’s Almira, was released in late 2019, and received a Diapason d’Or. Lalande’s chamber opera Les Fontaines de Versailles was featured on a September 2020 release of the composer’s works; Christoph Graupner’s opera Antiochus und Stratonica was released in December 2020. BEMF’s newest recording, of Desmarest’s Circé, the 2023 Festival opera, was released concurrently with the opera’s North American premiere.
Some of the most thrilling musical moments at the biennial Festival occur during one of the dozen or more concerts presented around the clock, which always include the acclaimed Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra led by Orchestra Director Robert Mealy, and which often feature unique, once-in-a-lifetime collaborations and programs by the spectacular array of talent assembled for the Festival
week’s events. In 1989, BEMF established an annual concert series bringing early music’s leading soloists and ensembles to the Boston concert stage to meet the growing demand for regular world-class performances of early music’s beloved classics and newly discovered works. BEMF then expanded its concert series in 2006, when it extended its performances to New York City’s Gilder Lehrman Hall at the Morgan Library & Museum, providing “a shot in the arm for New York’s relatively modest early-music scene” (New York Times).
The nerve center of the biennial Festival, the Exhibition is the largest event of its kind in the United States, showcasing nearly one hundred early instrument makers, music publishers, service organizations, schools and universities, and associated colleagues. In 2013, Mozart’s own violin and viola were displayed at the Exhibition, in their first-ever visit to the United States. Every other June, hundreds of professional musicians, students, and enthusiasts come from around the world to purchase instruments, restock their libraries, learn about recent musicological developments, and renew old friendships. For four days, they visit the Exhibition booths to browse, discover, and purchase, and attend the dozens of symposia, masterclasses, and demonstration recitals, all of which encourage a deeper appreciation of early music, and strengthen relationships between musicians, participants, and audiences. n
Revenue from ticket sales, even from a sold-out performance, accounts for less than half of the total cost of producing BEMF’s operas and concerts; the remainder is derived almost entirely from generous friends like you. With your help, we will be able to build upon the triumphs of the past, and continue to bring you thrilling performances by today’s finest Early Music artists.
Our membership organization, the FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL, includes donors from around the world. These individuals recognize the Festival’s need for further financial support in order to fulfill its aim of serving as a showcase for the finest talent in the field.
PLEASE JOIN THE FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL BY DONATING AT ONE OF SEVERAL LEVELS:
• Friend $45
• Partner $100
• Associate $250
• Patron $500
• Guarantor $1,000
• Benefactor $2,500
• Leadership Circle $5,000
• Artistic Director’s Circle $10,000
• Festival Angel $25,000
THREE WAYS TO GIVE:
• Visit BEMF.org and click on “Give Now”.
• Call BEMF at 617-661-1812 to donate by telephone using your credit card
• Mail your credit card information or a check (payable to BEMF) to Boston Early Music Festival, 43 Thorndike Street, Suite 302, Cambridge, MA 02141-1764
OTHER WAYS TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT:
• Increase your philanthropic impact with a Matching Gift from your employer.
• Make a gift of appreciated stocks or bonds to BEMF.
• Planned Giving allows you to support BEMF in perpetuity while achieving your financial goals.
• Direct your gift to a particular area that interests you with a Named Gift.
QUESTIONS? Please e-mail Kathleen Fay at kathy@bemf.org, or call the BEMF office at 617-661-1812. Thank you for your support!
This list reflects donations received from June 1, 2022 to September 22, 2023
($25,000 or more)
Anonymous (3)
Bernice K. Chen
Brit d’Arbeloff
Peter L. & Joan S.† Faber
Dorothy Ryan Fay†
Glenn A. KnicKrehm
David Halstead & Jay Santos
Miles Morgan
Lorna E. Oleck
Susan L. Robinson
Andrew Sigel
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Piroska Soos†
($10,000 or more)
Anonymous
Diane & John Paul Britton
Katie & Paul Buttenwieser
Susan Denison
Susan Donaldson
Marie-Pierre & Michael Ellmann
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Clare M. S. Fewtrell
James A. Glazier
Donald Goldstein, in memory of Constance Kellert Goldstein
George L. Hardman
Ellen T. & John T. Harris
Barbara & Amos Hostetter
David M. Kozak & Anne Pistell, in memory of their parents
Kenneth C. Ritchie & Paul T. Schmidt
Karen Tenney & Thomas Loring
Donald E. Vaughan & Lee S. Ridgway
Christoph Wolff
($5,000 or more)
Anonymous (2)
Mary Briggs & John Krzywicki
Elizabeth Davidson, in honor of David Morris
Tony Elitcher & Andrea Taras
Jean Fuller Farrington
Robert E. Kulp, Jr.
Marianne & Terry Louderback
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Victor & Ruth McElheny
Bill McJohn
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Joanne Zervas Sattley
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($2,500 or more)
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Anonymous, in honor of Bernice K. Chen
Annemarie Altman
Pamela & Lee Bromberg
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Kathleen Fay, in memory of Dorothy Ryan Fay
John Felton & Marty Gottron
Dr. Peter Libby, in memory of Dr. Beryl Benacerraf
Harriet Lindblom, in memory of Daniel Lindblom
John S. Major & Valerie Steele
Keith Ohmart & Helen Chen
Harold I. Pratt
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Adrian & Michelle Touw
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Carla Chrisfield & Benjamin D. Weiss
Joseph E. Coppola
Jeffrey Del Papa
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Henk Elderhorst
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Michael E. Fay
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Phillip Hanvy
Dr. Robert L. Harris
Rebecca & Ronald Harris-Warrick
Michael Herz & Jean Roiphe
Sally Hodges
Jessica Honigberg
Jane Hoover
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Alan M. King
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Lawrence & Susan Liden
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MAFAA
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Marilyn Miller
Stephen Moody
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Richard & Julia Osborne
Neal J. Plotkin & Deborah Malamud
Tracy Powers
Susan Pundt
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Michael Robbins
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Patsy Rogers
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Laila Awar Shouhayib
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Lisa Teot
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($500 or more)
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($250 or more)
Anonymous (8)
Anonymous, in memory of Dorothy Ryan Fay
Anonymous, in honor of Marco Horvat & Faenza
Joseph Aieta III
Elizabeth Alexander
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Joseph Glenmullen, M.D.
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Quinn Mackenzie
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Ann Stewart
Ronald W. Stoia
Melinda Sullivan & Larry Friedman
Mark S. Thurber & Susan M. Galli
Nancy M. Tooney
Peter & Kathleen Van Demark
Mark Vangel, in memory of Monica Strauss
Delores & Robert Viarengo
Dr. Alan J. Ward
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The Zucker Family
($100 or more)
Anonymous (15)
Anonymous, in memory of Adrian van Kalken
Vilde Aaslid
Maria Adams
Druid Errant D.T. Allan-Gorey
Kenneth Allen & Hugh Russell
William Ames
Cathy & William Anderson
Margarete Arndt
Neil R. Ayer, Jr. & Linda Ayer
Carl C. Baker & Susan R. Haynes
Antonia L. Banducci
Dr. David Barnert & Julie A. Raskin
Alan Bates & Michele Mandrioli
George Beach
Lawrence Bell
Alan Benenfeld
Susan Benua
Judith Bergson
Larry & Sara Mae Berman
Ann & Richard Bingham, in honor of Kathy Udall
John Birks
Sarah Bixler & Christopher Tonkin
Katharine C. Black
Moisha Blechman
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Richard Borts
Patricia Boyd
Sally & Charlie Boynton
Joel Bresler
Catherine & Hillel Shahan Bromberg
Lawrence Brown
Robert Brown
Caroline A. Bruzelius, in memory of Kristin Mortimer
John H. Burkhalter III
Judi Burten, in memory of Phoebe Larkey
Kevin J. Bylsma
John Campbell
Eleanor Carlson
William Carroll
Richard & Lois Case
Peter Charig & Amy Briemer
Robert B. Christian
Daniel Church & Roger Cuevas
John K. Clark & Judith M. Stoughton
Deborah J. Cohen
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Dr. Martin Cohen & Dr. Rae Jacobs Cohen
Saul B. & Naomi R. Cohen
Carol & Alex Collier
Lois Evelyn Conley
Anne Conner
Derek Cottier & Lauren Tilly
Robert B. Crane
Martina Crocker, in memory of William T. Crocker
Gray F. Crouse
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Ruta Daugela
Kate Delaney
William Depeter
Michael DiSabatino, in honor of Nancy Olson
Kathryn Disney
Charles & Sheila Donahue
John Dunton & Carol McKeen
Mark Elenko
Jake Esher
Richard Fabian
Marilyn Farwell
Margot Fassler
Gregg, Abby & Max Feigelson
Grace A. Feldman, in honor of Bernice Chen
Henry & Judith Feldman
Hans & Ruth Fisher
Carol L. Fishman
Dr. Jonathan Florman
Deborah Fox & Ron Epstein
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Gary Freeman
Robert Freeman
Alexander Garthwaite
Gisela & Ronald Geiger
Stephen L. Gencarello
David & Susan Gerstein
Barbara Godard
Michael Goldberg
Lisa Goldstein
Nancy L. Graham
The Graver Family
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Deborah Grose
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Peter F. Gustafson
Sonia Guterman
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Judy & Wayne Hall
Suzanne & Easley Hamner
Donatus Hayes
Karin Hemmingsen
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Raymond Hirschkop
John & Olivann Hobbie
Roderick J. Holland
Valerie Horst & Benjamin Peck
John Hsia
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Susan L. Jackson
Michele Jerison
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Dian Kahn
Elizabeth Kaplan
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Carol Lafontaine
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Patricia Owen
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Sheila Reese
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($45 or more)
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Anonymous, in memory of Dorothy Ryan Fay
Mr. Neale Ainsfield & Dr. Donna Sieckmann
Joanne Algarin
Morgana Asselin
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Iris Bass
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Janet Bouldin
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2023 | 8PM
NEC’s Jordan Hall, Boston, MA
VINCENT DUMESTRE, Director
MUSIC FOR A YOUNG KING: Lully, Charpentier, Lalande, Moulinié, Cavalli, Uccellini, and Buonamente
CityRecorder!
A workshop dedicated to recorder players
October 21-22, 2023
in New York City at the Ella Baker School
Co-directed by Valerie Horst and Wendy Powers
Renaissance Flute Consort Weekend
Directed by Amanda Marwick, with Na'ama Lion
October 21-22, 2023
at the Allen House, in West Newton, MA
See website for information and to register... and stay tuned for 2023-2024 dates for all of AEM's workshops, and the 2024 Amherst Early Music Festival!
We hope you'll join us!
amherstearlymusic.org
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25 | 8PM
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26 | 3PM
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Boston, MA
A fire-breathing dragon is terrorizing the Yorkshire countryside, and only the local squire, Moore of Moore Hall, can save the day.
If only he can be bothered to put down his beer.
The Dragon of Wantley, the most popular operatic production of the entire 18th century in England, enjoyed a 45-year run. Lampe deftly lampoons the excesses of Handelian opera in this hilarious farce of 1736.
This all-new production is led by BEMF’s GRAMMY-winning Musical Directors Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs and acclaimed Stage Director Gilbert Blin—an all-star roster of 18 singers, dancers, and instrumentalists combined with period-inspired staging and lavish costumes, bring this rollicking masterpiece to life in a must-see operatic event!
ORDER TODAY! BEMF.org | 617-661-1812
John Taylor Ward