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Dear Friends,

Tonight we are delighted to welcome the incomparable Tallis Scholars directed by Peter Phillips, in their 34th annual concert for BEMF, including specially filmed virtual concerts in 2020 and 2021. From our very first concert season in 1989, The Tallis Scholars have enchanted Boston audiences with their matchless performances, and their appearances are among the most anticipated events on the BEMF concert calendar. Lauded for their impeccable intonation, clarity, and blend, The Tallis Scholars have long represented the gold standard of Renaissance singing.

This evening’s program focuses on the inspiring and exquisite music written to honor and invoke the Virgin Mary, with Josquin’s magnificent Missa Ave maris stella as its cornerstone, along with a selection of masterful motets by Lassus, Isaac, Guerrero, and Arvo Pärt.

We hope you will join us in the New Year when our 2022–2023 Season continues with five additional concerts. The first of these is the long-awaited return of Bach Collegium Japan led by the legendary Masaaki Suzuki in a program of works by J. S. Bach and Telemann featuring celebrated British baritone Roderick Williams, taking place on Friday, February 10, at St. Paul Church in Cambridge. One month later, Quicksilver, directed by Robert Mealy and Julie Andrijeski, returns to the BEMF stage on Friday, March 10, at First Church in Cambridge, to present “The (Very) First Viennese School,” a program of Baroque instrumental masterworks. You can also experience more BEMF magic in days rather than months: this Monday, December 12 at 8pm, is the virtual premiere of our Thanksgiving Weekend Chamber Opera Series presentation, which features French Baroque works by Lully and Charpentier performed with BEMF’s signature flair and panache.

Thank you for attending tonight’s performance by The Tallis Scholars, and please accept our best wishes for a joyful holiday season, and peace in the New Year.

Kathleen Fay Executive Director

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

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David Halstead and

Jay Santos

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

Joan Margot Smith

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Lorna E. Oleck

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Partial Sponsor of BEMF’s Community Engagement Program and the June 2023 début of the BEMF Youth Ensemble

Peter L. and Joan S. Faber

Partial Sponsors of BEMF’s Community Engagement Program and the June 2023 début of the BEMF Youth Ensemble

David M. Kozak and Anne Pistell

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Diane and John Paul Britton

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Donald E. Vaughan and Lee S. Ridgway

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Boson Early Music Fesival PRESENTS

The Tallis Scholars

directed by Peter Phillips Hymns to the Virgin

Alma redemptoris mater a8

Orlande de Lassus (ca. 1532–1594)

Missa Ave maris stella Josquin des Prez Kyrie (ca. 1450–1521) Gloria Credo Sanctus Benedictus Agnus Dei

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Kindly Remain Seated

Maria Magdalene Francisco Guerrero (1528–1599)

Ave virgo sanctissima Guerrero

Virgencita

Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)

Virgo prudentissima Heinrich Isaac (ca. 1450–1517)

The Boston Early Music Festival thanks DAVID M. KOZAK and ANNE PISTELL for their leadership support of tonight’s performance in memory of their parents

LIVE CONCERT

Friday, December 9, 2022 at 8pm St. Paul Church in Harvard Square Bow and Arrow Streets, Cambridge, Massachusetts

VIRTUAL CONCERT

Friday, December 16, 2022 – Friday, December 30, 2022 BEMF.org

THE TALLIS SCHOLARS directed

by Peter Phillips

Amy Haworth, soprano Victoria Meteyard, soprano Katy Hill, soprano Lucinda Cox, soprano Caroline Trevor, alto Elisabeth Paul, alto Steven Harrold, tenor Simon Wall, tenor Tim Scott Whiteley, bass Rob Macdonald, bass

Program subject to change.

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

The Tallis Scholars appear by arrangement with Alliance Artist Management.

The Tallis Scholars record for Gimell Records. Please visit their website at www.gimell.com For more information, please visit www.thetallisscholars.co.uk

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2022 CHAMBER OPERA SERIES NAMED GIFT SPONSORSHIPS

Boston Early Music Festival extends sincere thanks to the following individuals and organizations for their leadership support of the November 2022 BEMF Chamber Opera Series performances of Lully’s Idylle sur la Paix and Charpentier’s La Fête de Rueil:

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Constellation Charitable Foundation

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

Sponsor of Mireille Lebel, mezzo-soprano, Jason McStoots, tenor, and John Taylor Ward, bass-baritone, BEMF Vocal Ensemble

David Halstead and Jay Santos

Sponsors of Teresa Wakim, soprano, and Aaron Sheehan, tenor, BEMF Vocal Ensemble

Lorna E. Oleck

Sponsor of Robert Mealy, Concertmaster Sponsor of Danielle Reutter-Harrah, soprano, BEMF Vocal Ensemble

Bernice K. Chen

Sponsor of Gilbert Blin, Stage Director

PROGRAM NOTES

Much of the greatest sacred music that comes down to us from the Renaissance celebrates the Blessed Virgin Mary. She was (and continues to be) valued as an intermediary, one who sits in the presence of Christ in heaven and may intercede with him on our behalf. This “approachable” quality helped inspire the many musical prayers and tributes to her which proliferated among Medieval and Renaissance composers, and which continue to be written today.

fashions back with him to the courts of Germany and the Low Countries. These included the polychoral technique in which choirs are split into two or more smaller groups. Alma redemptoris mater makes clever use of it, deftly separating and recombining the two choirs to create moments of climax and repose.

Josquin des Prez, the 500th anniversary of whose death was commemorated last year, was one of the most admired and respected composers of his age. The Missa Ave maris stella was widely known and very influential, a synthesis of the modern style of imitation between voices with the older style of basing music on a plainchantderived melody or cantus firmus.

Four such prayers are appointed to be sung at the evening office in Catholic monastic communities, at different times of the year. The Flemish composer Orlande de Lassus revisited these antiphons time and again, in works that represent some of his most ambitious and splendid compositions.

Lassus had worked in Italy for much of his early life, before bringing Italian musical

The chant which underpins this mass, Ave maris stella, was a well-known hymn, still regularly used in devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Its distinctive opening motif, a rising perfect fifth, can be heard at the beginning of each movement of the mass. The chant hymn provides the basis for every section, and fragments can occasionally be heard in longer notes in the tenor part (harking back to the older tradition). The tenor sings the hymn tune in full during the Osanna.

JOSQUIN DES PREZ

Engraving (1611)

ORLANDE DE LASSUS

Peter Phillips notes the concision of Josquin’s method in the mass, using the four phrases of the hymn as units to be dispersed around the voice parts. He considers it “a model exercise in cantus firmus treatment, suggesting that Josquin was summing up all he knew about it at this point in his career, before moving on.”

Mary has also attracted devotions via her recorded apparitions to the faithful. One such appearance occurred in Mexico in the sixteenth century, causing a shrine to be established to Our Lady of Guadalupe. She is the subject of Arvo Pärt’s Virgencita, written by the contemporary Estonian composer as a “present” to the people of Mexico in advance of a visit there. “The happy anticipation of being in Mexico very soon and the name Guadalupe left me no peace,” he wrote. Pärt treats his subject with the utmost reverence, establishing a chordal sonority of gentle dissonance, building towards an impassioned climax before subsiding.

FRANCISCO GUERRERO

Mary was the most common name for Jewish women of the first century. It is not surprising, therefore, to find other Maries mentioned in the gospel narratives. Francisco Guerrero’s motet Maria Magdalene was published in 1570, with a text drawn from various sources. Its first line introduces both the titular Mary and “the other Mary” (the Mother of Jesus seems to be absent). The piece narrates the discovery by these Maries of the empty tomb on Easter Sunday, and their learning of Christ’s victory over death. It introduces us to the composer’s favored sonority: two equal soprano parts atop a smoothly expressive polyphony.

Ave virgo sanctissima is today one of Guerrero’s best-known motets. Perhaps this is due to the easy and flowing way in which he embeds a canon in the two soprano parts, giving the motet a meditative, eternal quality which is sustained until its final moments. There are other delights for the attentive contemporary listener, who would have recognized a quotation of the distinctive four-note beginning of the Salve regina antiphon, prompted by the occurrence of the word Salve.

In his day, Heinrich Isaac held a preeminence second only to Josquin. By 1507, he was in the employ of Maximilian, who was presently to be crowned Holy Roman Emperor. The motet Virgo prudentissima was designed to demonstrate the soon-to-be Emperor’s piety and cast Mary as his heavenly supporter and advocate. The text, describing her as the “most-wise Virgin” combined with language from the Song of Songs, is matched by music of considerable “wisdom.” It employs multiple internal canons in which three voices sing the same music at different times, and includes a number of musical puns to delight the learned listener. Isaac dials up the awe by interspersing complicated decorative passages with monumental, slow-moving chant. There is even a self-referential moment as the musicians mention their own participation in this heavenly endorsement. Finally, the words ut sol (‘as the sun’) provide an opportunity that Isaac could not resist: a musical pun in which the syllables can be set to their corresponding scale degrees. n

—© James M. Potter, 2021

ARTIST PROFILES

The Tallis Scholars were founded in 1973 by their director, Peter Phillips. Through their recordings and concert performances, they have established themselves as the leading exponents of Renaissance sacred music throughout the world. Peter Phillips has worked with the ensemble to create, through good tuning and blend, the purity and clarity of sound which he feels best serves the Renaissance repertoire, allowing every detail of the musical lines to be heard. It is the resulting beauty of sound for which The Tallis Scholars have become so widely renowned.

The Tallis Scholars perform in both sacred and secular venues, giving around 80 concerts each year. In 2013, the group celebrated their 40th anniversary with a world tour, performing 99 events in 80 venues in 16 countries. They now look ahead to their 50th anniversary in 2023–2024. In 2020, Gimell Records celebrated 40 years of recording the group by releasing a remastered version of the 1980 recording of Allegri’s Miserere. As of the beginning of the cancellations caused by the Covid-19 crisis, The Tallis Scholars had made 2,327 appearances worldwide.

Highlights of the 2022–2023 season include performances in Australia, New York, Boston, Amsterdam, Zurich, Paris, tours of Italy, a number of appearances in London as well as

their usual touring schedule around the United States, Europe, and the UK. In a monumental project to mark Josquin des Prez’s 500th anniversary, The Tallis Scholars sang all eighteen of the composer’s masses over the course of four days at the Boulez Saal in Berlin in July 2022.

Recordings by The Tallis Scholars have attracted many awards throughout the world. In 1987, their recording of Josquin’s Missa La sol fa re mi and Missa Pange lingua received Gramophone magazine’s Record of the Year award, the first recording of early music ever to win this coveted award. In 1989 the French magazine Diapason gave two of its Diapason d’Or de l’Année awards for the recordings of a mass and motets by Lassus and for Josquin’s two masses based on the chanson L’Homme armé. Their recording of Palestrina’s Missa Assumpta est Maria and Missa Sicut lilium was awarded Gramophone’s Early Music Award in 1991; they received the 1994 Early Music Award for their recording of music by Cipriano de Rore, and the same distinction again in 2005 for their disc of music by John Browne.

The Tallis Scholars were nominated for a Grammy Award in 2001, 2009, and 2010. In November 2012, their recording of Josquin’s Missa De beata virgine and Missa Ave maris

stella received a Diapason d’Or de l’Année and in their 40th anniversary year they were welcomed into the Gramophone Hall of Fame by public vote. In a departure for the group, in Spring 2015 The Tallis Scholars released a disc of music by Arvo Pärt called Tintinnabuli, which received great praise across the board. Their latest recording of Josquin masses including Missa Hercules Dux Ferrarie was

released in November 2020 and was winner of the BBC Music Magazine’s much coveted Recording of the Year Award in 2021 and the 2021 Gramophone Early Music Award. This disc was the last of nine albums in The Tallis Scholars’ project to record and release all of Josquin’s masses before 500th anniversary of the composer’s death in 2021. n

Peter Phillips has dedicated his career to the research and performance of Renaissance polyphony, and to the perfecting of choral sound. He founded The Tallis Scholars in 1973, with whom he has now appeared in over 2,300 concerts worldwide and made over 60 recordings. As a result of this commitment Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars have done more than any other group to establish the sacred vocal music of the Renaissance as one of the great repertoires of Western classical music.

Peter Phillips also conducts other specialist ensembles. He is currently working with the BBC Singers, the Netherlands Chamber Choir, the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Intrada (Moscow), and El Leon de Oro (Spain). He is Patron of the Chapel Choir of Merton College Oxford.

In addition to conducting, Peter Phillips is well known as a writer. For thirty-three

years he contributed a regular music column to The Spectator. In 1995, he became publisher of The Musical Times, the oldest continuously published music journal in the world. His first book, English Sacred Music 1549–1649, was published by Gimell in 1991, while his second, What We Really Do, appeared in 2003, and again in 2013. During 2018, BBC Radio 3 broadcast his view of Renaissance polyphony in a series of six hour-long programs entitled The Glory of Polyphony.

In 2005, Peter Phillips was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture. In 2008, Peter helped to found the chapel choir of Merton College Oxford, where he is a Bodley Fellow, and in 2021 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. n

TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS

Alma redemptoris Mater — Lassus

Alma Redemptoris mater, quae pervia caeli porta manes, et stella maris, succurre cadenti surgere qui curat populo.

Tu quae genuisti, natura mirante, tuum sanctum genitorem. Virgo prius ac posterius, Gabrielis ab ore sumens illud ave, peccatorum miserere.

Missa Ave maris stella — Josquin

Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison.

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 caelestis, 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.

Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipotentem, factorem caeli et terrae, visibilium omnium et invisibilium. Et in unum Dominum Jesum Christum, Filium Dei unigenitum, et ex Patre natum ante omnia saecula. Deum de Deo; Lumen de Lumine; Deum verum de Deo vero;

Gracious mother of the Redeemer, you who remain the ever-open gate of heaven, and the star of the sea, succor thy people who fall but strive to rise again. You who gave birth, while Nature marvelled, to your Holy Creator, a virgin before and after, who heard that “Ave” from the mouth of Gabriel, have mercy on sinners.

Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.

Glory be to God on high, and in earth peace, goodwill toward men. We praise thee. We bless thee. We worship thee. We glorify thee. We give thanks to thee for thy great glory, O Lord God, heavenly king, God the Father almighty.

O Lord the only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ; O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us; that takes away the sins of the world, receive our prayer; that sits at the right hand of God the Father, have mercy upon us.

For thou only art holy; thou only art the Lord; thou only, O Christ, with the Holy Ghost, art Most High in the glory of God the Father. Amen.

I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of his Father before all worlds. God of God; Light of Light; very God of very God;

genitum, non factum; consubstantialem Patri; per quem omnia facta sunt.

Qui propter nos homines, et propter nostram salutem descendit de caelis, et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto, ex Maria Virgine, et homo factus est. Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio Pilato; passus et sepultus est.

Et resurrexit tertia die secundum Scripturas; et ascendit in caelum, sedet ad dexteram Patris; et iterum venturus est cum gloria judicare vivos et mortuos; cuius regni non erit finis.

Et in Spiritum Sanctum, Dominum et vivificantem, qui ex Patre Filioque procedit; qui cum Patre et Filio simul adoratur et conglorificatur; qui locutus est per prophetas;

Et unam sanctam catholicam et apostolicam Ecclesiam. Confiteor unum baptisma in remissionem peccatorum. Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum, et vitam venturi saeculi. Amen.

Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Pleni sunt caeli et terra gloria tua. Hosanna in excelsis.

Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini. Hosanna in excelsis.

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.

begotten, not made: being of one substance with the Father; by whom all things were made.

Who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man. And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried.

And the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father; and he shall come again with glory to judge both the living and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.

And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord, and giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified, who spoke by the prophets.

And I believe in one holy, catholic and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. And I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of hosts. Heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Hosanna in the highest.

Blessed is he that comes in name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

O Lamb of God, that takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.

O Lamb of God, that takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.

O Lamb of God, that takes away the sins of the world, grant us thy peace.

Maria Magdalene — Guerrero

Maria Magdalene et altera Maria emerunt aromata

ut venientes ungerent Jesum. Et valde mane una sabbatorum veniunt ad monumentum orto iam sole. Alleluia.

Et introeuntes in monumentum viderunt iuvenem sedentem in dextris coopertum stola candida et obstupuerunt. Qui dicit illis: Jesum quem quaeritis Nazarenum, crucifixum: surrexit, non est hic: ecce locus ubi posuerunt eum. Alleluia.

Ave virgo sanctissima

Ave virgo sanctissima Dei mater piisima Maris stella clarissima Salve semper gloriosa Margarita pretiosa Sicut lilium formosa Nitens olens velut rosa.

Virgencita — Pärt

— Guerrero

Mary Magdalene and the other Mary had bought spices that they might come and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulcher, at the rising of the sun. Alleluia.

And they entered into the sepulcher and saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. And he said unto them: ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him. Alleluia.

Hail, Holy Virgin, most blessed Mother of God, bright star of the sea. Hail, ever glorious, precious pearl, lovely as the lily, beautiful and perfumed as the rose.

Virgencita de Guadalupe, salva nos, salva. Santa María de Guadalupe, ruega por nosotros. Virgencita, salva nos. Santa María, Madre de Dios, salva nos, ruega por nosotros pecadores. Salva nos, ahora y en la hora de nuestra muerte. Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Virgencita, ruega por nosotros. Amén.

[Adapted from traditional prayers to the Mother of God (by Arvo Pärt)]

Virgo prudentissima — Isaac

Virgo prudentissima quae pia gaudia mundo attulit, ut sphaeras omnes transcendit et astra sub nitidis pedibus radiis, et luce chorusca liquit et ordinibus iam circumsepta novenis

Virgin Mary of Guadalupe, save us. Holy Mary of Guadalupe, pray for us. Virgin Mary, save us. Holy Mary, Mother of God, save us, pray for us sinners. Save us, now and in the hour of our death. Our Lady of Guadalupe, Virgin Mary, pray for us. Amen.

When the most-wise Virgin, who brought holy joy to the world, passed beyond all spheres and left the stars beneath her glistening feet in gleaming radiant light, she was surrounded by the ninefold Ranks

ter tribus atque ierarchiis excepta. Supremi ante Dei faciem steterat, patrona reorum. Dicite qui colitis splendentia culmina Olimpi: Spirituum proceres, Anchangeli et Angeli et alme Virtutesque Throni vos Principum, et agmina sancta, vosque Potestates, et tu dominatio caeli flammantes Cherubin, verbo Seraphinque creati, an vos laetitiae tantus perfuderit unquam sensus, ut aeterni Matrem vidisse tonantis consessum. Caelo, terraque, marique potentem Reginam, cuius nomen modo spiritus omnis et genus humanum merito veneratur adorat.

Vos, Michael, Gabriel, Raphael testamur ad aures illius, ut castas fundetis vota precesque pro sacro Imperio, pro Caesare Maximiliano. Det Virgo omnipotens hostes superare malignos: restituat populis pacem terrisque salutem. Hoc tibi devota carmen Georgius arte ordinat Augusti Cantor Rectorque Capellae. Austriacae praesul regionis, sedulus omni, se in tua commendat studio pia gaudia mater. Praecipuum tamen est Illi quo assumpta fuisti, quo tu pulchra ut luna micas electa es, et ut sol. Cantus firmus: Virgo prudentissima, quo progrederis, quasi aurora valde rutilans? Filia Sion. Tota formosa et suavis es: pulchra ut luna, electa ut sol.

and received by the nine Hierarchies. The protector of sinners, she stood before the face of Almighty God. You who inhabit the dazzling heights of Heaven, Leaders of the Spiritual Host, Angels and Archangels, bountiful Virtues, and you Thrones of Principalities, holy armies, Powers, Dominions of Heaven, fiery Cherubim, and Seraphim created from the Word, say whether such a feeling of joy has ever overwhelmed you as when you saw the assembly of the Mother of the everlasting Almighty. She is the Queen, powerful in Heaven, on land and at sea; whose majesty every spirit and every human being rightly praises and adores.

You we invoke, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, to pour upon her chaste ears our prayers and entreaties for the sacred empire and for Maximilian the Emperor. May the all-powerful Virgin grant that he conquer his wicked enemies, and restore peace to the nations and safety to the land. With faithful skill Georgius, the Emperor’s Precentor and Kapellmeister, rehearses this anthem for you. Austria’s Protector, diligent in everything, earnestly commends himself, Mother, to your tender joys. The highest place, however, belongs to Him by whom you were taken up, through whom you shine, beautiful as the moon, and are as excellent as the sun.

Cantus firmus: Virgin most wise, where are you going, glowing brightly like the dawn? Daughter of Sion! Wholly fair and sweet you are, beautiful as the moon, excellent as the sun.

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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 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

AMANDA FORSYTHE IN BEMF’S 2013 PRODUCTION OF HANDEL’S ALMIRA

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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

SCENE FROM BEMF’S 2022 PRODUCTION OF LULLY’S IDYLLE SUR LA PAIX

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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.

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, 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).

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

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AMHERST EARLY MUSIC 2023

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