RODOLFO
“ in addition i would like to have all the works of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, which have been published by you . . .”
—Ludwig van Beethoven
Letter to Breitkopf & Härtel, October 15, 1810
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JUNE 4 -11, 2023
OPERA
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FESTIVAL CONCERTS FEATURING: The all-star BEMF Orchestra
Maxine Eilander, harp & Tekla Cunningham, violin
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The Organ & Keyboard Mini-Festival | Doulce Mémoire
Hamburger Ratsmusik | Tiburtina Ensemble
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DOULCE MÉMOIRE
FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2023 AT 8PM | St. Paul Church, Cambridge
ENGLAND’S NIGHTINGALE: MUSIC OF WILLIAM BYRD
The intensely collaborative singers of STILE ANTICO have established themselves as one of the world’s most vibrant and expressive vocal ensembles. Join them for a season finale honoring the 400th anniversary of the death of the remarkable English composer William Byrd. Their program weaves together the strands of Byrd’s complex life as both pillar of the Protestant musical establishment and faithful servant of the Catholic underground with some of the composer’s most beloved works alongside gems by his pupils Thomas Morley, Peter Philips, and Thomas Tomkins.
—THE NEW YORK TIMES
Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Artistic Directors
“There are no finer singers of early music.”
We are delighted to welcome the outstanding Austrian chamber orchestra Ensemble Castor in their long awaited BEMF début. Tonight’s appearance is a special collaboration with esteemed British-Brazilian violin virtuoso Rodolfo Richter and renowned soprano Sherezade Panthaki, who makes a welcome return to BEMF after her appearance on our most recent CD, Graupner’s Antiochus und Stratonica. Their dynamic program is a celebratory exploration of natural world in the vocal and instrumental works of Antonio Vivaldi, evoking its many moods, from tumultuous power to heart-stopping beauty, through his music.
We hope you will join us in six days for the final concert of our 2022–2023 Season, on Friday, April 28 at 8pm at St. Paul Church in Cambridge. That evening, the luminous voices of Britain’s Stile Antico return for their tenth BEMF concert season appearance in a program titled “England’s Nightingale,” commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of William Byrd.
We also look forward to seeing you at our 22nd biennial Boston Early Music Festival—A Celebration of Women—which takes place June 4 to 11, 2023. Be sure to join us for what promises to be an inspiring week honoring women in music from the present day and past centuries. Subscriptions and single tickets are now on sale, and the enclosed comprehensive Festival Brochure contains in-depth descriptions of the week’s operas, concerts, and many other events. As always, please visit BEMF.org for the latest updates and information.
Thank you for attending this evening’s performance by Ensemble Castor, and please accept our best wishes for a music-filled spring!
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Sherezade Panthaki, soprano
Rodolfo Richter, leaderAntonio
Vivaldi (1678–1741)Concerto in B major for strings and basso continuo, RV 164
Allegro — Adagio — Allegro
Gelido in ogni vena from Farnace, RV 711
Concerto in F minor, “L’Inverno”, for violin, strings, and basso continuo, Op. 8, No. 4
Largo — Allegro
“La Follia” in D minor for two violins and basso continuo, Op. 1, No. 12
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Canta in prato, ride in monte, RV 623
motet for mezzo-soprano, strings, and basso continuo
Aria: Canta in prato, ride in monte
Recitativo: Selva fulgescit nobis
Aria: Avenae rusticate
Alleluia
Concerto in E major, “L’Amoroso”, for violin and strings, RV 271
Allegro — Cantabile — Allegro
In furore iustissimae irae, RV 626
motet for soprano, strings, and basso continuo
Aria: In furore iustissimae irae
Recitativo: Miserationum Pater piissime
Aria: Tunc meus fletus evadet laetus
Alleluia
Double-manual German harpsichord by Allan Winkler, Medford, Massachusetts, 1989, after Fleischer, property of the Boston Early Music Festival.
LIVE CONCERT
Saturday, April 22, 2023 at 8pm First Church in Cambridge, Congregational 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
VIRTUAL CONCERT
Friday, May 6, 2023 – Friday, May 20, 2023 BEMF.org
Petra Samhaber-Eckhardt, solo violin 2
Irma Niskanen, violin
Peter Aigner, viola
Keiran Campbell, violoncello
Barbara Fischer, violone
Erich Traxler, harpsichord with
Sherezade Panthaki, soprano
Rodolfo Richter, solo violin
Program subject to change.
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Sponsor of the Production
Joan Margot Smith
Sponsor of Melinda Sullivan, Choreographer
Sponsor of Phoebe Carrai, violoncello, and Laura Jeppesen, viola, BEMF Chamber Ensemble
Andrew Sigel
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David Halstead and Jay Santos
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Lorna E. Oleck
Sponsor of Robert Mealy, Concertmaster
Sponsor of Danielle Reutter-Harrah, soprano, BEMF Vocal Ensemble
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Sponsor of Gilbert Blin, Stage Director
Elizabeth Davidson
Sponsor of David Morris, viola da gamba
Vivaldi’s Concerto in B major for strings, RV 164, is a ripieno concerto, intended for orchestra without soloists. Such works are important antecedents of the symphony. Vivaldi both perfected and polarized the concerto; he also established its standard, three-movement fast-slow-fast structure.
With the exception of the symphonies from his operas and other vocal works, Vivaldi’s instrumental catalogue comprises over forty concertos for orchestra and about ten symphonies, largely composed between 1720 and 1741. Forty of these compositions have come down to us in handwritten scores by the composer, or partly handwritten scores or reliable copies kept in the National Library in Turin. In Paris there is a further collection of twelve concertos compiled under the supervision of the composer during the course of the 1720s, in all probability for a French client, possibly the Ambassador in Venice Jacques-Vincent Languet de Gergy. The distinction between the concerto a quattro or concerto ripieno—Vivaldi uses both terms in certain manuscript scores—and the sinfonia is not entirely clear. Indeed, there are some scores in his hand that bear the double title Concerto/ Sinfonia or Sinfonia/Concerto, where the second term is a later addition, but one that doesn’t appear to replace the first. It is possible
that Vivaldi’s choice of one or the other term was conditioned by the explicit functional destination: that fact that it did or did not belong to a specific genre, or that it featured more or less elements typical of the concerto or the sinfonia.
Charles de Brosses was in Venice in 1739 and heard works of this sort that were new for him. They spurred him to write to his friend M. de Blancey: “Here they have a form of music that we in France know not at all, and I am convinced that it would be particularly well suited to the Bourbonne gardens. It consists of the grand Concerti in which there is no principal violin.” Vivaldi also applied the formal structure of the solo concerto to the Concerto and the Sinfonia per orchestra. Vivaldi’s concerti ripieni feature a lofty style, thematic development, and compositional complexity in the form of counterpoint, where the violin part is often juxtaposed with the other part through imitation or dialogue.
The aria Gelido in ogni vena is from his opera Farnace, which had its premiere on February 10, 1727, at the Sant’Angelo theatre in Venice. The story tells of dynastic quarrels and the sharply calculated alliances of ancient Rome. In this aria, with a text Vivaldi borrowed from Metastasio’s libretto for the opera Siroe,
re di Persia, King Farnace mourns about the (supposed) death of his son and shows his pain. He sees the ghost of his son, describing the feeling of his blood freezing in his veins. Vivaldi composed this scary and unique aria using the same themes of the first movement of L’Inverno, the winter concerto from Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons).
Vivaldi’s twelve concertos Opus 8 were first published at Amsterdam in 1725; Vivaldi gave them the title of Il cimento dell’armonica e dell’inventione (The trial between harmony and invention) and dedicated them to Count Wenzel von Morzin. All twelve concertos in this set are excellent works, accompanied by descriptive texts, even if the first four, The Four Seasons, have come to overshadow the others.
Vivaldi’s Opus 1 is an early work, a youthful homage to the style of Corelli. Vivaldi demonstrates a powerful language of his own, one which then reappears fully fledged later in his famous L’Estro Armonico concertos (Opus 3). The most famous piece of the first opus, La Follia, is a sonata in three parts in the form of theme and variations. Its thematic material is very similar to that used by Corelli. In paying homage to this very famous work of Corelli, Vivaldi, in fact, brings a nervousness to the ancient Iberian theme of La Follia through an obsessive journey which has little time for lyrical episodes and leads to a series of final variations which are similar to those of Corelli’s version but more pounding, hyperbolic, and impatient.
Canta in prato, ride in monte was written by Vivaldi for Rome in the 1720s, where he spent three carnival seasons during which several of his operas were performed. He may well have composed this joyful motet with one of his highly skilled opera singers in mind. The opening aria immediately evokes the natural world in springtime, from meadow to mountain, with plentiful birdsong, which Vivaldi was also known to emulate in his concertos. After a recitative alluding to the (unspecified) holy day and asking “Pater beate” (Blessed Father) to rejoice and its mortal auditors to rejoice as well, the final aria adds a rustic, musical note, with shepherd’s pipes
teaching humans and musical instruments lessons in love and joy, before the motet ends with a final, florid Alleluia.
One of the lofty circles in which Vivaldi moved was that of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI (1685–1740), a keen amateur composer and accompanist, the last emperor of the direct Habsburg line. In his efforts to gain the emperor’s patronage, Vivaldi dedicated two lavish sets of string concertos to him: his Opus 9 of 1727, and a set of parts in manuscript which he presented in person during the imperial visit to Trieste between September 10 and 12, 1728. Both sets were titled La cetra (The Lyre), a name chosen to flatter the emperor by comparing him with Apollo, whose lyre had become interchangeable with the violin. Of the five partbooks of the 1728 collection, that of the solo violin has been lost. Seven concertos survive elsewhere including the tenth concerto (RV 271), whose autograph score (additionally bearing the name L’Amoroso, The Lover) can be found in Vivaldi’s personal manuscript archive in Turin.
The affettuoso style used in this concerto is very unusual for Vivaldi. Of particular note is the abundance of appoggiaturas in all three movements, reminiscent of the style adopted by Tartini and Locatelli in their sonatas.
In furore iustissimae irae, another of Vivaldi’s Roman motets, has a more serious text than Canta in prato. The divine fury inherent in the opening words is set up by an ominous, triple-time instrumental introduction in C minor, marked Allegro, with rapid, tensionfilled spiraling descents, before the voice enters and sweeps up the scale twice on “furore.” The middle section of the aria is short, gentle interlude in G minor with violins and viola accompaniment that eschews the basso continuo, after which the wrathful music returns. A brief recitative follows, and then a Largo aria in G minor, again in three, as the sinner weeps with joy in coming to know the savior. A final Alleluia in duple-meter C minor, replete with vocal fireworks, brings the motet, and the concert, to a glorious conclusion. n
Ensemble Castor, which was founded in 2010 by internationally successfully Austrian musicians specializing in early music, is devoted to string chamber music of the period between 1600 and 1750. The main focus is on the Italian seicento and settecento as well as on pre-classical music in Austria and Germany. The ensemble takes its name from the twin stars Castor and Pollux in the zodiac constellation of Gemini. The musical director of Castor is the Austrian violinist Petra Samhaber-Eckhardt, who studied with Enrico Onofri and Andrew Manze in Italy and London.
Ensemble Castor collaborates with labels including SONY and Note 1; its recordings have received fantastic international reviews. Castor works closely together with Enrico Onofri, Rodolfo Richter, Dorothee Oberlinger, Silvia Frigato, Mireille Lebel, Christina Gansch, Alois Mühlbacher, and other famous singers and instrumentalists.
The ensemble performs at many international festivals such as Barocktage Melk, Carinthischer Sommer, Festival St. Gallen, Festwochen Innsbruck, Fränkischer Sommer, HändelFestspiele Halle, and Mosel Musikfestival, in venues including the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Brucknerhaus Linz, and Konzerthaus Vienna, for Vancouver Early Music, Boston Early Music Festival, and concert series in Frankfurt, Ottawa, and New York.
In 2015, Castor won the culture prize of the city of Linz. Many excellent concert reviews give evidence of the high quality of their
work: “The young ensemble offered fulminant interpretations,” “Castor awakes early music to completely new life,” and Gramophone’s “These players never fail to find something to say…lovely, imaginative performances on some sweet sounding instruments.” n
Soprano Sherezade Panthaki enjoys ongoing international collaborations with many of the world’s leading conductors including Nicholas McGegan, Masaaki Suzuki, Martin Haselböck, Mark Morris, Nicholas Kraemer, Matthew Halls, Stephen Stubbs, and Gary Wedow. Celebrated for her “full, luxuriously toned upper range” (Los Angeles Times) and “astonishing coloratura with radiant top notes” (Calgary Herald) particularly in the music of Bach and Handel, recent seasons have included performances with the New York Philharmonic, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Bach Collegium Japan, Wiener Akademie, NDR Hannover Radiophilharmonie in Germany, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Boston Early Music Festival, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Mark Morris Dance Group, St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue New York,
The Choir and Orchestra of Trinity Wall Street, and Voices of Music.
Ms. Panthaki is no stranger to classical and modern concert repertoire; she is in high demand for her interpretations of Mozart, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Poulenc, and Orff, as well as numerous new music premieres. Her discography includes the recently released recording of Handel’s Joseph and his Brethren with Nicholas McGegan and Philharmonia Baroque, solo Bach cantatas with the Cantata Collective, and Graupner’s opera Antiochus und Stratonica with the Boston Early Music Festival.
Born and raised in India, Ms. Panthaki holds graduate degrees with top honors from the Yale School of Music and the University of Illinois, and a Bachelor’s from West Virginia Wesleyan College. She is a founding member and artistic advisor of the recently established Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble—a vocal octet celebrating racial and ethnic diversity in performances and educational programs of early and new music. Ms. Panthaki is a frequent guest clinician and masterclass leader across the United States. She has taught voice to graduate music students at Yale University, and currently heads the Vocal program at Mount Holyoke College. n
Bernarda Fink, Giuliano Carmignola, Karina Gauvin, Alexander Melnikov, and Richard Egarr. For ten years he held the position of leader of both the Academy of Ancient Music and B’Rock as well as professor of Baroque violin at the Royal College of Music in London. Currently he tours around the globe with his Richter Ensemble and is the musical director of the Early Music Course and Festival at the Oficina de Música de Curitiba in Brazil. n
British/Brazilian violinist Rodolfo Richter is a frequent guest director and soloist around the world, including engagements with Tafelmusik in Toronto, Arion in Montréal, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Tesserae in Los Angeles, Seville Baroque Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Academy of Ancient Music, and B’Rock.
He has been praised by the international press as “one of the most inspirational baroque violinists of his generation” and performs and collaborates regularly with artists like Sonia Prina, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Roel Dieltiens,
Petra Samhaber-Eckhardt was born in Linz, Austria. She studied modern violin at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, but soon discovered her love and passion for the Baroque violin and early music.
After she graduated in Salzburg, she moved to London for studies with Andrew Manze and Ingrid Seifert at the Royal College of Music. There she received her postgraduate diploma with distinction.
While living in London, she won several prizes at early music competitions and was a finalist for the BBC Music Award.
In 2012, she completed a Master’s degree with distinction in Austria with Michi Gaigg and studied for several years with Enrico Onofri at the conservatory in Palermo, Italy.
In addition to her passionate work directing and managing Ensemble Castor she is also in great demand leading various orchestras and groups, such as Innsbrucker Festwochen and Collegium Marianum. She has participated in many major festivals throughout Europe and South America.
In 2013, she edited her first book, Musicalrhetorical figures in J. S. Bach’s sonatas for violin and harpsichord obbligato BWV 1014–1019. n
Gelido in ogni vena
Gelido in ogni vena
Scorrer mi sento il sangue, L’ombra del figlio esangue M’ingombra di terror.
E per maggior mia pena Vedo che fui crudele A un’anima innocente Al core del mio cor.
Gelido in ogni vena…
Canta in prato, ride in monte
Aria
Canta in prato, ride in monte Philomena laeta in fonte, vox respondeat exultando.
Et vox illa sit amoena vox laetitiae, nec tua poena gaudia turbet deplorando.
Canta in prato…
Recitativo
Selva [saeva] fulgescit nobis digna communi gaudio optata dies. Pater beate, gaude caelesti gloria tua, gaude sereno obsequio.
Vos mortales, plaudite et exultate, et si plaudunt in coelo amoeni cori, gaudeat et omnis vivens et semper plaudendo sacro honori.
Aria
Avenae rusticate, sinceri fervida amoris jubila docete nos.
Vos gaudia dicite, [discite] timpana et organa, si agrestis fistula invitat vos.
Cold in every vein
I feel my blood flowing, The shadow of my lifeless son Encumbers me with terror. And for my greater pain
I see I was cruel To an innocent soul, To the heart of my heart.
Cold in every vein…
Aria
Sing in the meadow, laugh on the hill; Philomena, happy in the fountain, let her voice answer in exultation.
And may that voice be pleasing, the voice of happiness, nor let your pain disturb joys by weeping.
Sing in the meadow…
Recitative
The holy day shines bright for us, the desired day, time for general joy. Blessed Father, rejoice in your celestial glory, rejoice in serene ceremony. You mortals, clap your hands and be glad, and if the happy choirs rejoice in heaven, let every living thing rejoice and always be glad in holy ceremony.
Aria
Rustic reeds, teach us ardent rejoicing in sincere love.
Learn joys, tambours and organs, if the country pipe invites you.
Avenae rusticate…
Alleluia Alleluia.
In furore iustissimae irae
Aria
In furore iustissimae irae tu divinitus facis potentem.
Quando potes me reum punire ipsum crimen te gerit clementem.
In furore…
Recitativo Miserationum Pater piissime, parce mihi dolenti peccatori languenti, o Jesu dulcissime.
Aria
Tunc meus fletus evadet laetus dum pro te meum languescit cor.
Fac me plorare, mi Jesu care, et fletus laetus fovebit cor.
Tunc meus…
Alleluia Alleluia.
Rustic reeds…
Alleluia Alleluia. Aria
In a fury of righteous wrath you act with divine might.
Even as you can punish my transgressions the offense itself carries your mercy…
In a fury…
Recitative
Most pious, compassionate Father, spare me, a grieving, weak sinner, O sweetest Jesus.
Aria
Then my tears evaded my happiness while my heart grew weary. Make me weep, my dear Jesus, and glad tears will soothe my heart.
Then my…
Alleluia Alleluia.
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-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 LouiseGeneviève 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 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, fourcountry 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.
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, oncein-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 earlymusic 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!
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Jewish Communal Fund
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Maine Community Foundation
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Massachusetts Cultural Council
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National Endowment for the Arts
Newstead Foundation
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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
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The Trust for Mutual Understanding
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The Upland Farm Fund
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Private Wealth Management
Vanguard Charitable
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Exelon Foundation
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Community Gifts Through Harvard University
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Microsoft Corporation
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Natixis Global Asset Management
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Spring Break Workshop
April 22-23, 2023, Arlington, VA
Memorial Day Weekend Workshop
May 26-29, 2023, Litchfield, CT
AMHERST EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
July 2-9 and 9-16, 2023
Two weeks of classes on the campus of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA
Baroque Opera, Choral Workshop, Ensemble Singing Intensive, and more!
AEM ONLINE New classes each month!
Publications AEM publishes four playerfriendly, modern editions:
Ottaviano Pettruci's Odhecaton, Canti B, Music for the Duke of Lerma, and Music from the Regensburg Partbooks 1579
See website for the latest details on all of AEM's programs!
We hope you'll join us!
amherstearlymusic.org
After the divine sorceress Circé welcomes Ulisse and his weary companions to her island home, the forces of love, magic, and fate clash and threaten to ensnare them all.
n JUNE 4, 7, 9 & 11, 2023 | Boston, MA
n JUNE 10, 2023 | Boston, MA
n JUNE 23 & 24, 2023 | The Berkshires, MA
A weeklong celebration of Early Music with Opera, Concerts, the world-famous Exhibition, and so much more.
