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—Attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Dear Friends,

This evening we are delighted to welcome the outstanding singers and instrumentalists of Belgium’s Vox Luminis, led by artistic director and bass Lionel Meunier, for their third performance in a BEMF concert season.

Since its founding in 2004, this luminous, Gramophone Award–winning ensemble has been universally praised for its unique sound and its dynamic and heartfelt interpretive approach to the English, Italian, and German repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries, breathing fresh life into the great masterworks as well as illuminating lesser-known gems of the period. Vox Luminis returns with a program of sacred music centered around Claudio Monteverdi’s monumental and beloved Selva morale e spirituale, interwoven with three complementary pieces by the composer that were first published in Italian and German anthologies, in a vivid stylistic display of unparalleled liturgical writing from this time.

We hope you enjoy the performance this evening, and that you will return here to Jordan Hall over Thanksgiving Weekend for the Grammy-winning BEMF Chamber Opera Series’ dazzling new production of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Idylle sur la Paix and Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s La Fête de Rueil. Musical Directors Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs and Stage Director Gilbert Blin lead an all-star roster of 26 singers, dancers, and instrumentalists in this idyllic double bill of works commissioned to celebrate the Sun King, Louis XIV. In the interim, we have a virtual-only program by countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, “Inspiration,” premiering on November 11 at 8pm.

Thank you for joining us this evening, and as always, please accept our heartfelt thanks for your continued enthusiastic support of the Boston Early Music Festival.

Kathleen Fay Executive Director

MANAGEMENT

Kathleen Fay, Executive Director Carla Chrisfield, General Manager Maria van Kalken, Assistant to the Executive Director Brian Stuart, Director of Marketing and Publicity Elizabeth Hardy, Marketing and Development Associate & Exhibition Manager Perry Emerson, Operations Manager Corey King, Box Office and Patron Services Manager Andrew Sigel, Publications Editor Nina Stern, Director of Community Engagement

ARTISTIC LEADERSHIP

Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, Artistic Directors Gilbert Blin, Opera Director Robert Mealy, Orchestra Director Melinda Sullivan, Lucy Graham Dance Director

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Bernice

Adrian

Susan

BOARD

OVERSEERS

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MEMBERS OF THE BEMF CORPORATION

Jon Aaron

Debra K.S. Anderson

Kathryn Bertelli Mary Briggs Diane Britton Douglas M. Brooks Gregory E. Bulger Julian G. Bullitt Deborah Ferro Burke

John A. Carey Anne P. Chalmers Bernice K. Chen Joel I. Cohen Brit d’Arbeloff Vivian Day Mary Deissler Peter L. DeWolf JoAnne W. Dickinson Richard J. Dix Alan Durfee Michael Ellmann Peter L. Faber Emily C. Farnsworth Dorothy R. Fay† Kathleen Fay John Felton Frances C. Fitch Claire Fontijn Randolph J. Fuller James A. Glazier Marty Gottron Carol A. Haber David Halstead

George L. Hardman Ellen T. Harris Richard Hester Jessica Honigberg Jennifer Ritvo Hughes Edward B. Kellogg Thomas F. Kelly Glenn A. KnicKrehm Christine Kodis

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 Amanda Pond Melvyn Pond Paul Rabin Christa Rakich Lee S. Ridgway

Michael Rigsby Douglas M. Robbe Michael Robbins Susan L. Robinson Patsy Rogers

Wendy Rolfe-Dunham Loretto Roney

Thomas Roney Ellen Rosand

Valerie Sarles David W. Scudder

Andrew Sigel Jacob Skowronek Arlene Snyder

Jon Solins Robert Strassler Ganesh Sundaram

Adrian C. Touw

Peggy Ueda Donald E. Vaughan Ingeborg von Huene Nikolaus von Huene Howard J. Wagner

Benjamin D. Weiss Ruth S. Westheimer Allan Winkler

Hal Winslow

Christoph Wolff Arnold B. Zetcher Ellen Zetcher

† deceased

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9,

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THE TALLIS SCHOLARS

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FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2023

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Boson Early Music Fesival

2022–2023 NAMED GIFT SPONSORSHIPS

Boston Early Music Festival extends sincere thanks to the following individuals for their leadership support of our 2022–2023 Season: o

David Halstead and Jay Santos

Sponsors of the October 2022 performance by Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor, and Ensemble Artaserse

Joan Margot Smith

Sponsors of the November 2022 performance by Vox Luminis and Lionel Meunier, Artistic Director

David M. Kozak and Anne Pistell

Sponsors of the December 2022 performance by The Tallis Scholars and Peter Phillips, director in memory of their parents

Bernice K. Chen

Sponsor of Gilbert Blin, Stage Director for the November 2022 Chamber Opera Series Production

Donald E. Vaughan and Lee S. Ridgway

Sponsors of Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor, for his October 2022 performance o

Not only do Named Gifts help provide the crucial financial support required to present a full season of extraordinary performances, but they are doubly meaningful in that they send a message of thanks to your most beloved artists—that their work means something to you.

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Boson Early Music Fesival PRESENTS

Vox Luminis

Lionel Meunier, Artistic Director

The Moral and Spiritual Forest

Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)

Gloria, SV 258 from Selva morale e spirituale, 1640

Dixit Dominus II, SV 264 from Selva morale e spirituale, 1640

Beatus vir I, SV 268 from Selva morale e spirituale, 1640

O bone Jesu, o piissime Jesu, SV 313 (instrumental version) from Promptuarii musici, Johannes Donfrid, 1622

Adoramus te Christe, SV 289 from Libro primo de motetti, Giulio Bianchi, 1620

Crucifixus, SV 259 from Selva morale e spirituale, 1640

Laetaniae della Beata Vergine, SV 204 from Libro secondo de motetti, Giulio Bianchi, 1620

O bone Jesu, o piissime Jesu, SV 313 (vocal version) from Promptuarii musici, Johannes Donfrid, 1622

Magnificat I, SV 281 from Selva morale e spirituale, 1640

The Boston Early Music Festival thanks JOAN MARGOT SMITH for her leadership support of tonight’s performance

LIVE CONCERT

Friday, November 4, 2022 at 8pm New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, Massachusetts

VIRTUAL CONCERT

Friday, November 18, 2022 – Friday, December 2, 2022 BEMF.org

Continuo Organ by Bennett & Giuttari, Rehoboth, Massachusetts, 2006, provided by New England Conservatory.

VOX LUMINIS

Lionel Meunier, Artistic Director & bass

Zsuzsi Tóth, Perrine Devillers, Tessa Roos & Victoria Cassano, soprano Jan Kullmann & Barnabas Hégyi, alto Jacob Lawrence & João Moreira, tenor Sebastian Myrus, bass

Tuomo Suni, violin I Johannes Frisch, violin II Benoît vanden Bemden, violone Simon Linné, theorbo Anthony Romaniuk, organ Program subject to change.

Ball Square Films & Kathy Wittman, Video Production Antonio Oliart Ros, Recording Engineer

PROGRAM NOTES

CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI

Claudio Monteverdi was born in Cremona, the son of a surgeon and apothecary. Although there is no record of him being a member of the city’s cathedral choir, the young Monteverdi received his first composition lessons from its maestro di cappella Marc’Antonio Ingegneri, whose teachings he acknowledged in his first publications.

Monteverdi was clearly a precocious talent. His first publication, the three-voiced Sacrae cantiunculae (1582), was printed when he was just fifteen years old. After attempts to find employment in Verona and Milan, he was eventually appointed as a viol player at the court of Vincenzo I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua. It was in Mantua that he first began to experiment with the contemporary forms of liturgical music and develop a novel approach that united elements of the musical past and present, while offering glimpses of the future. This balance between tradition and innovation was epitomized in his much-loved Vespro della Beata Vergine of 1610. His compositional achievements undoubtedly helped him in 1613, when he advanced to the prestigious post of maestro di cappella at Venice’s Basilica di San Marco, where he would remain until the end of his career.

The majority of the repertoire contained within this program is drawn from three publications: the Selva morale e spirituale (‘Moral and

Spiritual Forest’), published in 1640, and Giulio Bianchi’s two books of motets, both of which were published in 1620. The Selva morale e spirituale was a retrospective anthology that drew together some of his most innovative and successful music from his time in Mantua alongside his more recent Venetian work. It includes a mass, several psalm and Marian hymn settings, as well as two separate Magnificats. Bianchi was a cornettist and composer, who was also born in Cremona and led the wind band at Mantua alongside Monteverdi.

The seven-voice setting of the Gloria is thought to have originally been part of a large-scale mass written by Monteverdi in 1631 to commemorate the end of the Italian Plague of 1629–1631 (also known as the Great Plague of Milan). The plague brought great devastation to northern Italy and is thought to have killed up to 50,000 people in Venice alone. Monteverdi divides the Gloria into five distinct sections, closely following the sense of the text. Over the course of the piece, individual voices and pairs of voices emerge from the main texture with flashes of rapid coloratura, to participate in a compelling musical dialogue with the violins.

Dixit Dominus is the first psalm of the evening office of Vespers on Sundays and feast days. As part of the San Marco liturgy, Vespers services on special occasions saw the uncovering of the Pala d’Oro, the exquisite gold high altar at

Portrait by Bernardo Strozzi (ca. 1630)

the far east end of the church. To accompany this, sixteenth-century Venetian composers normally produced lavish eight-voice, doublechoir settings of the Dixit Dominus. While this second setting by Monteverdi is scored for eight voices, he does not stick to a rigid division between two ensembles. Instead, he uses the forces in a series of different combinations to depict the psalm’s lucid imagery—for example, using the full ensemble to terrifying effect in the stile concitato (‘agitated style’) section at the words “Confregit in die irae suae reges” (‘Shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath’), but then suddenly paring back, in complete contrast, to a pair of soprano voices for the beginning of the following verse.

One of Monteverdi’s best-known later sacred works, Beatus vir (his first of two settings of Psalm 111) was actually based on the secular canzonetta Chiome d’oro, which was included in his Seventh Book of Madrigals (1619). In Beatus vir, Monteverdi borrows the charm and naïveté of his earlier work, originally addressed to the beauty of a lover’s physical features, to convey the blissful assurance of the faithful man that fears God and obeys his commandments.

Adoramus te, Christe was included in Bianchi’s first book and is a simple but heartrending setting of a text from the Hours of the Cross in devotional Books of Hours. Its opening statement, which translates as ‘We adore you, Christ,’ is tinged with bittersweetness, effected by Monteverdi’s unconventional use of dissonances, but the closing statements of “Miserere nobis” (‘Have mercy on us’) bring comfort and solace in the ending.

In addition to the simple four-part mass setting published in the Selva morale, Monteverdi also included some more modern alternative settings that could be substituted for sections of the mass. This short Crucifixus setting is one such alternative. It is cast in a much more modern style, with its descending chromatic line giving it a distinctly different character to the ordinary of the mass, which remained very consciously within the parameters of the stile antico.

There was a conspicuous increase in expressions of Marian devotion in Venice from 1571, after

the city’s victory over the Turkish navy at the Battle of Lepanto, with Pope Pius V attributing the victory to the intervention of the Virgin Mary. As part of this, musical settings of the Litany became popular. Monteverdi’s setting of the Litany of Loreto, the Laetaniae della Beata Vergine, was printed in Bianchi’s second book. Between the opening Kyrie and the closing Agnus Dei, the Litany consists of a sequence of invocations addressed to the Trinity and then to Mary, as mother, virgin, saint, and queen. The music is relatively simple and it is likely the piece was intended to be sung in procession.

O bone Jesu, o piisime Jesu was actually first printed outside Italy, in a collection entitled Promptuarii musici issued by the German composer Johannes Donfrid in Strasbourg in 1622. A simple setting for two sopranos and continuo of a devotional hymn text, it is an example of the so-called “echo motet,” whereby the first voice sings a phrase that is immediately repeated by the second voice, before the pair join together to elaborate and extend the melodic materials. Growing out of a fairly sparse opening, the piece builds cumulatively in intensity, culminating in the final invocation, “salva me” (‘save me’).

Following the five psalms at Vespers, the Magnificat featured as the centerpiece of the liturgy, being sung as the altar was censed. This eight-voice setting is the first of two contained within the Selva morale e spirituale. Breaking the text down into a series of standalone sections, Monteverdi explores its vivid imagery in a number of fresh ways. The stile concitato is introduced once again with the words “Fecit potentiam in brachio suo” (‘He has made known the power of his arm’). In juxtaposing these modern forms of expression with elements of the musical past, in the shape of short fragments of plainsong and imitative polyphony, Monteverdi demonstrates his unique ability to make the unfamiliar seem somehow familiar. These truly immersive sound worlds must have been utterly entrancing to seventeenth-century ears—but they remain no less captivating to contemporary audiences. n

—David Lee

ARTIST PROFILES

Vox Luminis is a Belgian early music vocal ensemble created in 2004 by Artistic Director Lionel Meunier. The ensemble performs around seventy concerts a year, appearing on stages in Belgium, across Europe, and around the world. Since its inception, the ensemble has been defined by its unique sound, appealing as much through the personality of each timbre as it does through the color and the uniformity of the voices. The size and composition of the group depends on the repertoire, with the core of soloists, mostly from the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, often joined by additional performers. The repertoire is essentially Italian, English, and German and spans from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.

Vox Luminis has released sixteen albums on the Alpha Classics, Ricercar, Ramée, and Musique en Wallonie labels. These recordings have enjoyed international critical acclaim, and have won numerous prizes including the prestigious Gramophone Recording of the Year in 2012 for the Musicalische Exequien by Heinrich Schütz, and the 2018 Choral Award from BBC Music Magazine for their recording of music of the Reformation, Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott, released on Ricercar Records. In 2018, Alpha Classics released two albums: a collaboration with the Franco-Canadian ensemble Masques in Abendmusiken by Dieterich Buxtehude, which was awarded a 2019 Gramophone Music Award in the Choral category, and a recording of Purcell’s King Arthur.

Recent highlights include Vox Luminis’s Lincoln Center début with a residency at The Juilliard School in New York, along with débuts at the Arsenal in Metz and at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, and at the Our Lady of Ambronay abbey. In 2019, Vox Luminis celebrated their fifteenth anniversary with sublime collaborations and a busy touring schedule.

Vox Luminis has performed extensively at festivals in Belgium, Europe, and overseas, and has performed in prestigious venues such as Wigmore Hall in London, the Oratoire du Louvre in Paris, the Auditoria Nacional de Música in Madrid, the Concertgebouw in Brugge, the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Tivoli Vredenburg in Utrecht. Residencies for the ensemble have been held at the Abbey of Sainte-Marie-des-Dames, the Center for Fine Arts in Brussels, the Concertgebouw in Brugge, the prestigious Festival of Early Music in Utrecht, and the Musique et Mémoire Festival. Since 2017, the ensemble has also been in residence at Aldeburgh Festival in England, founded by Benjamin Britten.

One project, one objective, one path: introduce today’s audiences to early vocal music, passionately conveying its quintessence and touching the light through the voice. Vox Luminis. n

Lionel Meunier is a singer and the founder/ artistic director of the early music vocal ensemble Vox Luminis. Being passionate about music from a very young age, he started his musical education in the city of Clamecy, France, with the trumpet, recorder, and solfège. Lionel then continued his studies at Institut Supérieur de Musique et de Pédagogie (the Superior Institute of Music and Pedagogy –IMEP) in Namur where he earned his degree in recorder with great distinction. He took classes from Tatiana Babut du Marès and Hugo Reyne, and masterclasses with Jean Tubéry.

Meunier then focused his attention on vocal studies with Rita Dams and Peter Kooij at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague in the Netherlands. At the same time, he started a career as a concert musician. He was soon in demand as a soloist, and he joined prestigious ensembles like Collegium Vocale Gent (Philippe Herreweghe), World Youth Choir, Arsys Bourgogne (Pierre Cao), Amsterdam Baroque Choir (Ton Koopman), the Chamber Choir of Namur, Les Favoriti de la Fenice (Jean

Tubéry), the Soloists of the Chamber Choir of Namur, Cappella Pratensis (Stratton Bull), and the soloists of the Dutch Bach Vereniging (Jos Van Veldhoven).

Over the past several years, Lionel Meunier has been increasingly in demand from many ensembles throughout Europe as coach, conductor, and artistic leader. His passionate yet thoughtful approach to the early music and a cappella repertoire, combined with the understanding of and respect for the singers, has allowed him to achieve progressively ever-higher standards. Moreover, he is a jury member for many international festivals and competitions.

In 2013, Lionel Meunier was given the title of Namur Person of the Year for Culture.

Just as mindful about education, Lionel and Vox Luminis regularly offer masterclasses, coaching sessions, and conferences on the repertoire from the end of the Renaissance period and from the Baroque period. n

TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS

Gloria, SV 258

Gloria in excelsis Deo. Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis. Laudamus te. Benedicimus te. Adoramus te. Glorificamus te. Gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam. Domine Deus, Rex coelestis, 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.

Dixit Dominus II, SV 264

Dixit Dominus Domino meo: sede a dextris meis, donec ponam inimicos tuos scabellum pedum tuorum.

Virgam virtutis tuae emittet Dominus ex Sion: dominare in medio inimicorum tuorum. Tecum principium in die virtutis tuae in splendoribus sanctorum: ex utero, ante luciferum, genui te.

Juravit Dominus et non poenitebit eum: tu es sacerdos in aeternum secundum ordinem Melchisedech. Dominus a dextris tuis: confregit in die irae suae reges.

Judicabit in nationibus, implebit ruinas: conquassabit capita in terra multorum.

Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth to all men of good will. We praise you. We bless you. We adore you. We glorify you. We thank you, for your great glory. Lord God, king of the heavens, God, almighty Father.

Lord, begotten son, Jesus Christ. Lord God, lamb of God, son of the father, take all sins from the world, have mercy on us. Take all sins from the world, receive our invocation.

You who are seated at the right of the father, have mercy on us Because only you are Holy, only you are Lord, only you are Highest Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father, Amen.

The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. Thine shall be the dominion in the day of thy power, amid the brightness of the saints: from the womb, before the day star have I begotten thee.

The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent; thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge among the nations, he shall fill them with ruin: and shake to pieces the heads of many on the earth.

De torrente in via bibet: propterea exaltabit caput.

Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

—Psalm 110 (111)

He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Beatus vir I, SV 268

Beatus vir, qui timet Dominum: In mandatis eius volet nimis.

Potens in terra erit semen eius; Generatio rectorum benedicetur.

Gloria et divitiae in domo eius; Et justitia eius manet in saeculum saeculi. Exortum est in tenebris lumen rectis: Misericors, et miserator et justus.

Jucundus homo qui miseretur et commodat. Disponet sermones suos in judicio:

Quia in aeternum non commovebitur.

In memoria aeterna erit justus.

Ab auditione mala non timebit. Paratum cor eius sperare in Domino; Confirmatum est, cor eius: Non commovebitur, Donec despiciat inimicos suos.

Dispersit, dedit pauperibus: Justitia eius manct in saeculum saeculi, Cornu eius exaltabitur in gloria.

Peccator videbit, et irascetur; Dentibus suis fremet et tabescet. Desiderium peccatorum peribit.

Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

—Psalm 111 (112)

Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord: that delighteth greatly in his commandments. His seed shall be mighty upon earth. The generation of the upright shall be blessed. Glory and riches shall be in his house and his righteousness endureth for ever. Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness. He is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

Happy is the man that showeth favor and lendeth; he will guide his words with discretion.

Surely he shall not be moved for ever. The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. He shall not be afraid of evil tidings. His heart is ready, trusting in the Lord. His heart is established, he shall not be afraid until he see his desire upon his enemies.

He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor. His righteousness endureth for ever. His horn shall be exalted with honor.

The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked shall perish.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Adoramus te Christe, SV 289

Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi. Quia per sanguinem tuum pretiosum redemisti mundum. Miserere nobis.

Crucifixus, SV 259

Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio Pilato: Passus, et sepultus est.

Laetaniae della Beata Vergine, SV 204

Kyrie, eleison. Christe, eleison. Kyrie, eleison. Christe, audi nos. Christe, exaudi nos. Pater de caelis, Deus, Miserere nobis, Fili, Redemptor mundi, Deus, Miserere nobis, Spiritus Sancte, Deus, Miserere nobis, Sancta Trinitas, unus Deus, Miserere nobis,

Sancta Maria, Ora pro nobis, Sancta Dei genitrix, Ora pro nobis, Sancta Virgo virginum, Ora pro nobis, Mater Christi, Ora pro nobis, Mater divinae gratiae, Ora pro nobis, Mater purissima, Ora pro nobis, Mater castissima, Ora pro nobis, Mater inviolata, Ora pro nobis, Mater intemerata, Ora pro nobis, Mater amabilis, Ora pro nobis, Mater admirabilis, Ora pro nobis, Mater Creatoris, Ora pro nobis, Mater Salvatoris, Ora pro nobis, Virgo prudentissima, Ora pro nobis, Virgo veneranda, Ora pro nobis, Virgo praedicanda, Ora pro nobis, Virgo potens, Ora pro nobis, Virgo clemens, Ora pro nobis, Virgo fidelis, Ora pro nobis,

Speculum iustitiae, Ora pro nobis, Sedes sapientiae, Ora pro nobis, Causa nostrae laetitiae, Ora pro nobis, Vas spirituale, Ora pro nobis, Vas honorabile, Ora pro nobis, Vas insignae devotionis, Ora pro nobis,

We adore you, Christ, And we bless you, You who by the Holy Cross Have redeemed the world. He who has suffered on our behalf Lord, Lord, have mercy.

He was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate: He suffered and was buried.

Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us. God the Father of heaven, have mercy on us. God the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us.

God the Holy Spirit, have mercy on us. Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on us.

Holy Mary, pray for us. Holy Mother of God, pray for us. Holy Virgin of virgins, pray for us. Mother of Christ, pray for us. Mother of divine grace, pray for us. Mother most pure, pray for us. Mother most chaste, pray for us. Mother inviolate, pray for us. Mother undefiled, pray for us. Mother most amiable, pray for us. Mother most admirable, pray for us. Mother of our Creator, pray for us.

Mother of our Savior, pray for us. Virgin most prudent, pray for us. Virgin most venerable, pray for us. Virgin most renowned, pray for us. Virgin most powerful, pray for us. Virgin most merciful, pray for us. Virgin most faithful, pray for us.

Mirror of justice, pray for us. Seat of wisdom, pray for us.

Cause of our joy, pray for us. Spiritual vessel, pray for us.

Vessel of honor, pray for us. Singular vessel of devotion, pray for us.

Rosa mystica, Ora pro nobis, Turris Davidica, Ora pro nobis, Turris eburnea, Ora pro nobis, Domus aurea, Ora pro nobis, Foederis arca, Ora pro nobis, Ianua caeli, Ora pro nobis, Stella matutina, Ora pro nobis, Salus infirmorum, Ora pro nobis, Refugium peccatorum, Consolatrix afflictorum, Auxilium Christianorum, Ora pro nobis, Regina angelorum, Ora pro nobis, Regina patriarcharum, Ora pro nobis, Regina prophetarum, Ora pro nobis, Regina apostolorum, Ora pro nobis, Regina martyrum, Ora pro nobis, Regina confessorum, Ora pro nobis, Regina virginum, Ora pro nobis, Regina sanctorum omnium, Ora pro nobis,

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, Parce nobis Domine, Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, Exaudi nos, Domine,

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, Miserere nobis.

O bone Jesu, o piissime Jesu, SV 313

O bone Jesu, o piissime Jesu, O Jesu fili Mariae Virginis, Plene misericordiae et pietate!

O Jesu nomen dulce, O Jesu nomen delectabile, O Jesu nomen confortans, Quid est enim Jesus nisi Salvator?

Ergo Jesu propter nomen sanctum tuum Esto mihi Jesus et salva me.

Magnificat I, SV 281

Magnificat, anima mea, Dominum et exultavit spiritus meus in Deo, salutari meo.

Quia respexit humilitatem ancillae suae: ecce enim ex hoc beatam me dicent omnes generationes.

Quia fecit mihi magna, qui potens est, et sanctum nomen eius,

Mystical rose, pray for us.

Tower of David, pray for us. Tower of ivory, pray for us. House of gold, pray for us.

Ark of the covenant, pray for us. Gate of heaven, pray for us. Morning star, pray for us. Health of the sick, pray for us. Refuge of sinners, Comforter of the afflicted, Help of Christians, pray for us.

Queen of Angels, pray for us.

Queen of Patriarchs, pray for us. Queen of Prophets, pray for us. Queen of Apostles, pray for us. Queen of Martyrs, pray for us.

Queen of Confessors, pray for us. Queen of Virgins, pray for us. Queen of all Saints, pray for us.

Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, spare us, O Lord.

Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Lord.

Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.

O good Jesus, O Jesus most kind, O Jesus, son of the Virgin Mary, Full of mercy and love. O Jesus, thy name is sweet, O Jesus, thy name is a delight, O Jesus, thy name bringeth comfort, For who is Jesus if not our Savior?

Therefore, Jesus, by virtue of thy holy name, Be mine, Jesus, and save me.

My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, and my spirit has exulted in God my savior. Because he has regarded the lowly state of his slavegirl; for look! from now on [they] will say that I am blessed every generation. Because he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name,

et misericordia eius a progenie in progenies timentibus eum.

Fecit potentiam in brachio suo, dispersit superbos mente cordis sui.

Deposuit potentes de sede et exaltavit humiles; esurientes implevit bonis et divites dimisit inanes.

Suscepit Israel puerum suum recordatus misericordiae suae, sicut locutus est ad patres nostros, Abraham et semini eius in saecula.

Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto: Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

and his mercy [continues] from generation to generation for those who fear him.

He has made known the power of his arm, scattered those who are arrogant in the thoughts of their heart.

He has put down the mighty from their seats [of power] and raised up those who are lowly.

The hungry he has filled with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.

He has taken under his protection Israel his boy, and remembered his mercy, in accordance with what he said to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed for ever.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

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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).

INTERNATIONAL BAROQUE OPERA

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-first biennial Boston Early Music Festival in June 2021 took place virtually, and featured a video presentation of André Campra’s extraordinary  Le Carnaval de Venise  from the June 2017 Festival. The twenty-second Festival, in June 2023, will have as its centerpiece Henry Desmarest’s 1694 opera Circé from a libretto by Louise-Geneviève Gillot de Saintonge, which will feature the Boston Early Music Festival Dance Company, a troupe of dancers under the guidance of BEMF Dance Director Melinda Sullivan.

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 MarcAntoine 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 Lully, Francesca Caccini’s Alcina, the first opera written by a woman, and most recently a combination of Telemann’s Pimpinone and Ino. 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.

PHOTO: KATHY WITTMAN

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; Jean-Baptiste 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

DANIELLE REUTTER-HARRAH IN BEMF’S 2021 PRODUCTION OF TELEMANN’S PIMPINONE

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.

CELEBRATED CONCERTS

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).

WORLD-FAMOUS EXHIBITION

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

A STANDING OVATION FOR LA STORIA DI ORFEO IN NOVEMBER 2019

PHOTO: KATHY WITTMAN

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Isaacson-Draper Foundation

The Richard and Natalie Jacoff Foundation, Inc.

Jewish Communal Fund

Key Biscayne Community Foundation

Konstantin Family Foundation

Maine Community Foundation Makromed, Inc.

Massachusetts Cultural Council Mastwood Foundation Morgan Stanley

National Endowment for the Arts

Newstead Foundation

Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation

The Packard Humanities Institute

Plimpton-Shattuck Fund at The Boston Foundation

The Mattina R. Proctor Foundation REALOGY Corporation

Renaissance Charitable The Saffeir Family Fund of the Maine Community Foundation Scofield Auctions, Inc.

Schwab Charitable The Seattle Foundation Shalon Fund

TIAA Charitable Giving Fund Program

The Trust for Mutual Understanding

The Tzedekah Fund at Combined Jewish Philanthropies

The Upland Farm Fund U.S. Small Business Administration U.S. Trust/Bank of America

Private Wealth Management Vanguard Charitable

Walker Family Trust at Fidelity Charitable Archie D. & Bertha H. Walker Foundation

Marian M. Warden Fund of The Foundation for Enhancing Communities The Windover Foundation

MATCHING CORPORATIONS

21st Century Fox Allegro MicroSystems Amazon Smile

AmFam Analog Devices Aspect Global Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

Biogen Carrier Global Dell, Inc.

Exelon Foundation FleetBoston Financial Corporation Genentech, Inc.

Google

Grantham, Mayo, van Otterloo & Co. LLC John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. Community Gifts Through Harvard University

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt IBM Corporation Intel Foundation Investment Technology Group, Inc. (ITG) Microsoft Corporation

MLE Foundation, Inc. Natixis Global Asset Management Novartis US Foundation

NVIDIA Pfizer Pitney Bowes Salesforce.org

Silicon Valley Community Foundation Takeda

Tetra Tech United Technologies Corporation Verizon Foundation Xerox Foundation

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