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Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor Le Concert de la Loge Julien Chauvin, conductor

Inspiration

Concerto for strings in G minor, RV 156 Allegro — Adagio — Allegro

Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)

Nisi Dominus, RV 608

Vivaldi

Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro, RV 169 Adagio molto — Allegro ma poco

Vivaldi

Infirmata, vulnerata

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725)

From Concerto No. 1 for strings in F minor Poco andante — Allegro Salve Regina

Francesco Durante (1684–1755) Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736)

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L E CO N C E R T D E L A LO GE Julien Chauvin, violin I & conductor Anne Camillo, violin II Pierre-Éric Nimylowycz, viola Julien Barre, violoncello Davide Vittone, double bass Camille Delaforge, organ Thomas Dunford, theorbo PRISMÉDIA, Video Production

Le Concert de la Loge is supported by the Ministère de la Culture, the Ville de Paris, the Region Île-de-France, the Société Générale C’est vous l’avenir Foundation (its main sponsor), the Fonds de dotation Françoise Kahn-Hamm, and the sponsors who are members of Club Olympe. The ensemble is in residence at the Jean-Baptiste Lully Conservatory in Puteaux and at the Arsenal – Cité musicale-Metz. It is also an associate artist in residence at the Fondation Singer-Polignac, as well as an associate ensemble at the Auditorium du Louvre and the Théâtre Sénart. In 2021, the ensemble began a four-year cross-residency with the Association pour le Développement des Activités Musicales dans l’Aisne (ADAMA) and the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.

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P RO GRA M NOT E S During the Baroque era, the Italian national identity was much more marked in the artistic than in the political sphere. Italy was divided into principalities established around real citystates, but it celebrated an indisputable unity thanks to the arts, especially music, even though the great musical centers (Naples, Venice, and Rome, mainly) had obvious specificities. The Italian masters, while asserting strong personalities, all evolved in an immediately recognizable musical universe. In the same way, music for the theater and for the church shared a common rhetoric, even if the sacred repertory could not completely match the virtuosity displayed in the operas. The situation in Rome, in particular, was paradoxical. The papacy imposed important restrictions, even forbidding all lyrical works at the beginning of the eighteenth century, but inside the aristocratic palaces, such prohibitions were skillfully circumvented and the oratorios did not hesitate to display a pyrotechnic vocality— we will take as an example those of Handel at the beginning of the eighteenth century. A prolific composer at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the “official” father of Neapolitan opera, oratorio, and chamber cantata, Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725) is often mentioned as the founder of the Neapolitan school. However, while there is no question of disputing his immense influence, it should not be forgotten that he held prestigious positions in both Naples and Rome (his wife was Roman, by the way), constantly moving back and forth between the two metropolises, and even to Venice. The chromatic language typical of Naples could not be deployed in all its languorous sensuality in the Eternal City, where the papacy took a dim view of any aesthetic that was too hedonistic, calling for clearer and more honest harmonies. Sometimes classified as a cantata (it is true that the text, although Latin, does not explicitly mention either God or Christ), the motet Infirmata, vulnerata is part of this quest for relative simplicity. The voice is accompanied by two violins, and takes up the eternal theme 2 022–20 23 SEASO N

of love and its torments. According to the composer’s manuscript, it was composed in October 1702—it is extremely difficult to propose a clear date for much of Scarlatti’s sacred output. His first aria relies on numerous effects illustrating disarray, particularly delays. Carried by a concentrated, almost bare singing, which does not however renounce delicate modulations, the emotion is palpable but always modest, without exuberant outbursts. Little by little, the motet evolves toward more light, ending with a lively aria where the unrequited love sung by the soloist seems to give way to hope. The Neapolitan chromaticism and harmonic rubbing are undoubtedly present in the music of Francesco Durante (1684–1755), who spent his entire career in Naples, with the exception of a stay in Rome around 1718. As his Concerto No. 1 for strings in F minor shows, the skillful distillation of chromatic lines goes hand in hand with a consummate art of counterpoint that is too often ignored when the Neapolitan school is mentioned. One of the few composers of this school to abandon opera for sacred music and instrumental literature, Durante gradually gained the reputation, sometimes negative, of a strange and whimsical composer: this image undoubtedly stemmed in part from his taste for a style that was certainly colorful but largely oriented towards early polyphony. He directed three of the great Neapolitan conservatories: the Conservatorio Poveri di Gesù Cristo from 1728 to 1739, where he counted Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736) among his students; the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto, where he succeeded Nicola Porpora in 1742; and in 1745 added the directorship of the Conservatorio di Sant’Onofrio a Capuana, where he had studied in his youth. Pergolesi is surrounded by an almost legendary aura due to his premature death at the age of twenty-six and the universal fame of his Stabat Mater for two voices, commissioned by the brotherhood of the Cavalieri de la Vergine dei Dolori to replace the older one by Alessandro Scarlatti. The beauty of the 11

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Stabat Mater (but also of works such as the intermezzo La serva padrona or the operas Adriano in Siria and L’Olimpiade) makes one dream of “what Pergolesi could have done” if death had not taken him away so soon. He completed his Stabat Mater when he was at the end of his strength, leaving also his Salve Regina for reasons that remain unknown to this day. This score was written in two versions: C minor for a soprano voice, and F minor for an alto. From the very first measures, the similarities with the Stabat Mater, both in the vocal lines and in the harmonic discourse, which obviously gives pride of place to subtle modulations, are undeniable, with an equally striking expressive intensity. This Salve Regina represents a journey toward the light, which we like to think accompanied Pergolesi during his last days. On the manuscripts of these two final compositions, Pergolesi inscribed a moving note: “Finis, Laus Deo” (I have finished, God be praised).

ANTONIO VIVALDI

Engraving by François Morellon la Cave (1725)

At the other end of the Italian boot, Venice radiated a prodigious artistic vitality that brilliantly concealed an irreversible political and economic decline. The cradle of public opera, La Serenissima counted among its greatest impresarios a man of the cloth, the “Prete Rosso” (‘Red Priest’) Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741). However, for a long time Vivaldi was considered only the father of the concerto. Whether in string or solo concertos, the acrobatic performances of the “Prete Rosso,” a violin virtuoso of seemingly diabolical skill, earned him the reputation of a musician who composed his music “by the mile” and lovingly knitted pleasant but superficial pages. This negative opinion is, however, undermined by concertos such as the one on this program. 2 022–20 23 SEASO N

Vivaldi’s more than forty concertos for strings, i.e., without a soloist, were probably written for the composer’s astounding pupils at the Ospedale della Pietà, the orphanage for girls of which he was music director from 1703. The whole of Europe celebrated the virtuosity of these musicians, and it is not surprising that the Concerto for strings in G minor, RV 156, is both restrained and breathtakingly vital, especially in its finale. We admire here a harmonic frankness and an absolutely irresistible efficiency, but also a masterly art of singing and counter-singing. Fortunately, this opinion, largely inspired by a lack of knowledge of the Vivaldian opus, is no longer really held today. The revolution in the perception of his work over the last few decades has been largely in the methodical exploration of Vivaldi’s vocal music, both secular and sacred. The Sonata al Santo Sepolcro in E-flat major, RV 169, is regularly associated with Vivaldi’s sacred scores. Knowledge of his sacred production is based essentially on the fame of certain works, such as the Gloria (RV 589), the Stabat Mater (RV 621), and the Nisi Dominus (RV 608). While the Stabat Mater remains paradoxically shrouded in mystery as to its destination and the circumstances of its creation, it is almost certain that the Nisi Dominus was written for the Pietà, which also had remarkable voices. Intended for the Feast of the Visitation, this motet is distinguished by the presence of a viola d’amore, which sweetly intertwines its lines with those of the voice in the “Gloria Patri,” and musicologists have not failed to point out the talents of a pupil of the Ospedale, Anna Maria, whom Vivaldi took particular care to train in view of her precocious gifts. For the rest, Vivaldi shows an undeniable poetic diversity: vocal virtuosity in the opening “Nisi Dominus,” the “Sicut sagittae,” and of course the concluding Amen. Above all, there is the famous “Cum dederit,” one of the great hypnotic pages in the history of music, in which immense note-holding tests the breath of the voice, on the impalpable carpet of muted strings. This is enough to dispel the prejudice that Vivaldi could not write for the voice. n —Yutha Tep 13

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A R TIS T PROFIL E S

Countertenor Philippe Jaroussky has established himself as one of the major singers in the international musical world as confirmed by the French Victoires de la Musique (“Revelation Artiste Lyrique” in 2004, “Artiste lyrique de l’année” in 2007 and 2010) and at the Echo Klassik Awards in Germany in 2008 in Munich (Singer of the Year), in 2009 in Dresden (with L’Arpeggiata), and again in 2016 in Berlin. An impressive mastery of vocal technique allows performances full of nuance and vocal acrobatics. Philippe Jaroussky’s vast repertoire of the Baroque era ranges from the refinements of the Italian Seicento with Monteverdi, Sances, and Rossi, to the staggering brilliance of Handel and Vivaldi, the latter recently being one of his most performed composers. Philippe is also tirelessly at the forefront of musical research and made strong contributions to the discovery—or rediscovery—of composers such as Caldara, Porpora, Steffani, Telemann, and Johann Christian Bach. Lately, he has also explored the very different repertoire of French melodies accompanied by pianist Jérôme Ducros. He has recently proposed his own vision of Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’Été with performances at the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid and at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. 2 022–20 23 SEASO N

Increasingly captivated by contemporary works, Jaroussky performed a song cycle composed by Marc-André Dalbavie from the sonnets of Louise Labé. He premiered Kaija Saariaho’s opera Only the Sound Remains, specifically written for his voice, at Nederlande Opera Ballet in Amsterdam in March 2016. Philippe Jaroussky has had the pleasure of collaborating with some of the best Baroque ensembles. He has performed to high acclaim in the most prestigious festivals and concert halls around the world. In 2002, he founded Ensemble Artaserse, which currently performs throughout Europe and across the globe. In January 2017, Philippe inaugurated the new Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. He was invited as its first artist in residence. The 2019–2020 season marked the twentieth anniversary of his career with a number of major events such as the inclusion of his statue at the Musée Grévin in Paris, the publication of the biographical book Seule compte la musique, and the release of the three-CD anthology Passion. March 2021 saw Philippe Jaroussky’s début as a conductor at the head of his Artaserse ensemble with the production of Alessandro Scarlatti’s oratorio Il primo omicidio. This 15

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program was performed at venues including the Salzburg Festival and Opéra de Montpellier, which will become the residence of Philippe and Artaserse for the next three seasons. He has continued as a conductor in 2022, with numerous concerts in Paris, Lyon, Montpellier, Budapest, and at the Epau and Halle Festivals. At the end of May and beginning of June 2022, in Paris and Montpellier, Philippe conducted his first opera from the pit, Handel’s Giulio Cesare, with a superlative cast of singers including Sabine Devieilhe, Gaëlle Arquez, Franco Fagioli, Carlo Vistoli, and Lucile Richardot. During the 2022–2023 season, Philippe conducts the stage production of Sartorio’s Orfeo at Opéra de Montpellier. He performs the role of Ruggiero in a production of Handel’s Alcina alongside Cecilia Bartoli in Monte Carlo. In addition, Philippe is in recital across the Atlantic with guitarist Thibaut Garcia at the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato and at Bellas Artes in Mexico City, and with Les Violons du Roy and MarieNicole Lemieux in Montreal and Quebec City. He joins Artaserse for concerts in Boston, San Diego, and Toronto, and performs with L’Arpeggiata and Christina Pluhar at Carnegie Hall in New York. Philippe Jaroussky has been an exclusive artist with Erato/Warner Classics for many years and has received numerous awards for his outstanding discography. In March 2017, a project dear to his heart came to fruition: the Academy Philippe Jaroussky. In its first five years, the Academy has supported young musicians suffering from cultural isolation, through original, extensive, and demanding teaching. In 2019, Philippe Jaroussky was appointed Officier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. n Julien Chauvin was attracted at an early age by the Baroque revolution and the new wave of historically informed performance practice using period instruments and moved to the 2 0 22–20 23 SEASO N

Netherlands to train at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Vera Beths, who founded L’Archibudelli with Anner Bylsma. In 2003, he was a prizewinner at the International Early Music competition in Bruges. Since then he has performed as a soloist in South America, South Africa, and Georgia, while at the same time playing in the leading European Baroque ensembles, before founding in 2005 Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, which he directed jointly with Jérémie Rhorer for ten years. Realizing his desire to bring back to life a celebrated ensemble of the eighteenth century, in 2015 he formed a new orchestra, Le Concert de la Loge. The ambitions of this modern recreation have been demonstrated by its exploration of forgotten works from the French orchestral and vocal-operatic repertory and concert formats encouraging spontaneous and imaginative reactions from the audience. In parallel with this, he continues his collaboration with the Quatuor Cambini-Paris, formed in 2007, with which he performs the string quartets of Jadin, David, Gouvy, Mozart, Gounod, and Haydn. Julien Chauvin has also conducted operatic productions such as Era la notte staged by Juliette Deschamps with Anna Caterina Antonacci, Lemoyne’s Phèdre and Isouard’s Cendrillon staged by Marc Paquien for the Palazzetto Bru Zane, Haydn’s Armida directed by Mariame Clément, and Sacchini’s Chimène, ou Le Cid staged by Sandrine Anglade. Continuing to investigate the question of direction in the eighteenth-century opera, he recently directed Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail from the violin in a production by Christophe Rulhes. He has appeared as guest conductor with orchestras and ensembles including the Esterházy Hofkapelle, the Orchestre Régional d’Avignon-Provence, the Orchestre national de Metz, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Limoges, the Orkiestra Historyczna of Katowice, the Folger Consort 17

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in Washington D.C., Les Violons du Roy, the Kammerorchester Basel, and the GürzenichOrchester Köln.

programs directed from the violin or the baton and champions a wide repertory ranging from the Baroque era to the early twentieth century.

Julien Chauvin’s discography includes concertante works by Haydn, Beethoven, and Berlioz for the Eloquentia and AmbroisieNaïve labels. With his ensemble Le Concert de la Loge, he recorded the Haydn’s complete “Paris” Symphonies, which he compared with other works created in Paris in the 1780s. Passionate about the rediscovery of forgotten French repertoire, he recorded the disc Si j’ai aimé with Sandrine Piau for the Alpha label. As a soloist, he recorded in 2020 an album of violin concertos for the Vivaldi Edition of the Naïve label which was awarded a Diapason d’Or.

The aim of this recreation project is also to explore new forms of concerts, harking back to the spontaneity of late-eighteenth-century practice, which intermingled different genres and artists in a single program, and to establish links with other artistic disciplines.

He regularly appears in recital with Alain Planès, Christophe Coin, Andreas Staier, JeanFrançois Heisser, Justin Taylor, and Olivier Baumont. He and Baumont recorded the disc À Madame at the Château de Versailles. In addition to his concert activities, Julien Chauvin also devotes himself to teaching in orchestral sessions or masterclasses at the Conservatoires Nationaux de Musique et de Danse of both Paris and Lyon, the École Normale de Paris, the Opéra national de Paris Academy, and the Orchestre Français des Jeunes. n In January 2015, violinist Julien Chauvin founded a new period-instrument orchestra with the ambition of reviving an essential component of French musical history: the Concert de la Loge Olympique. That orchestra, founded in 1783 by the Comte d’Ogny, was then considered one of the finest in Europe and has remained famous for commissioning the “Paris” Symphonies of Joseph Haydn. At that time, a substantial majority of musicians were Freemasons, and many concert associations were linked to Masonic Lodges such as the Loge Olympique de la Parfaite Estime. The modern, flexibly sized ensemble presents chamber, symphonic, and vocal-operatic 2 022–20 23 SEASO N

Since it was founded, the ensemble has toured many venues with operas including Haydn’s Armida directed by Mariame Clément, Sacchini’s Chimène, ou Le Cid directed by Sandrine Anglade, Lemoyne’s Phèdre and Isouard’s Cendrillon staged by Marc Paquien for the Palazzetto Bru Zane, and Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail staged by Christophe Rulhes. It also enjoys regular collaborations with such renowned soloists as Karina Gauvin, Sandrine Piau, Philippe Jaroussky, and Justin Taylor. On disc, the orchestra has recorded six volumes of Haydn’s complete “Paris” Symphonies for the Aparté label with works from the same period performed at the Concert de la Loge Olympique. In addition, the ensemble has devoted itself to rediscovering other repertoires: the French melodies orchestrated in Si j’ai aimé with Sandrine Piau on the Alpha label, the Symphonies de Salons for Aparté, and violin concerti with the release in 2020 of the 63rd volume of the Vivaldi Edition on the Naïve label, Concerti per violino III: ‘Il teatro’. In 2021, Le Concert de la Loge began a new collaboration with the Alpha label around Mozart’s last three symphonies. Its recordings have received critical acclaim, earning such distinctions as the Diamant d’Opéra Magazine, Choc de Classica, Sélection Le Monde, ffff Télérama, and the Grand Prix du Disque Charles Cros. Since the French National Olympic and Sports Committee opposed the ensemble’s use of the adjective “Olympic,” it was forced to truncate its historical name and adopt the designation “Le Concert de la Loge” in June 2016. n 19

TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS Nisi Dominus — Vivaldi Nisi Dominus aedificaverit donum, in vanum laboraverunt, qui aedificant eam. Nisi Dominus custodierit civitatem frustra vigilat qui custodit eam.

If the Lord has not built the house, in vain will those who build it toil. If the Lord does not protect the city, those who keep it watch in vain.

Vanum est vobis ante lucem surgere.

It is vain for you to rise before light.

Surgite postquam sederitis, qui manducatis panem doloris.

Get up after you sit down, you who eat the bread of pain.

Cum dederit dilectis suis somnum: ecce haereditas Domini, filii: merces, fructus ventris.

The Lord will give sleep to his beloved. The Lord’s inheritance are the children, His grace is the fruit of the womb.

Sicut sagittae in manu potentis, ita filii excussorum.

Like arrows in the hand of the mighty, so are the children of exiles.

Beatus vir qui implevit desiderium suum ex ipsis: non confundetur cum loquetur inimicis suis in porta.

Blessed is the man who met his wish of them. He will not be muddled when he treats with his enemies at the gate.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.

Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper et in saecula saeculorum. Amen. —Psalm 126 (127)

As it was in the beginning, and now, and ever shall be, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

Infirmata, vulnerata — Scarlatti Infirmata, vulnerata puro deficit amore et liquescens gravi ardore languet anima beata.

Weak and wounded for want of pure love, my heart is melting with the pain of love, my happiness dwindling away.

O care, o dulcis amor, quomodo mutatus es mihi in crudelem, quem numquam agnovisti infidelem?

O sweet and precious love, how is it that you have turned so cruel to me? Never before have you failed me.

Vulnera percute, transfige cor. Tormenta pati non timeo.

Strike your blows, pierce my heart! To suffer torments does not daunt me.

Cur, quaeso, crudelis es factus es gravis? Sum tibi fidelis, sis mihi suavis.

Why, O why have you become so cruel, so harsh? I remain loyal to you; be kind to me.

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Vicisti, amor vicisti, et cor meum cessit amori.

Love, the victory is yours; my heart yields to you.

Semper gratus, desiderabilis, semper eris in me. Veni, o care, totus amabilis, in aeternum diligam te.

Forever welcome, forever longed for, you will always be within me. Come, beloved, O wholly exquisite, I shall love you for evermore. —Anonymous

Salve Regina — Pergolesi

Salve Regina, mater misericordiae: vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve.

Hail, Queen, mother of mercy: our life, sweetness, and hope, hail.

Ad te clamamus exsules filii Hevae. Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes in hac lacrimarum valle.

To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve. To thee we sigh, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.

Eia, ergo, advocata nostra, illos tuos misericordes oculos ad nos converte. Et Iesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui, nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.

Turn then, our advocate, those merciful eyes toward us. And Jesus, the blessed fruit of thy womb, show us him after our exile.

O clemens, O pia, O dulcis Virgo Maria. —Marian antiphon

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AMANDA FORSYTHE IN BEMF’S 2013 PRODUCTION OF HANDEL’S ALMIRA PHOTO: KATHY WITTMAN

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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).

IN TER NATI ONA L BA RO QU E O PE RA 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. 2 022–20 23 SEASO N

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 25

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. DANIELLE REUTTER-HARRAH IN BEMF’S 2021 PRODUCTION OF TELEMANN’S PIMPINONE 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 B OST ON E AR LY M US I C F E ST I VAL

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.

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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).

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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

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That Feeling You Get

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Boson Early Music Fesival A Celebration of Women

Join us in Boston for our 22nd biennial extravaganza | JUNE 4 –11, 2023

HENRY DESMAREST’S

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 ensare them all.

CENTERPIECE OPERA

n JUNE 4, 7, 9 & 11, 2023 | Boston, MA

CHAMBER OPERA

n JUNE 10, 2023 | Boston, MA n JUNE 23 & 24, 2023 | The Berkshires, MA

OPERA • CONCERTS • EXHIBITION A weeklong celebration of Early Music with Opera, Concerts, the world-famous Exhibition, and so much more.

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2022–2023 Season | Philippe Jaroussky & Le Concert de la Loge

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