January 2019

Music Before 1800: Quicksilver

The baroque ensemble gives us “A Cabinet of Musical Curiosities from the Seventeenth Century,” the invention of the new musical style in Italy and Germany.

Composer: Matthias Weckmann (1616-1674), Maurizio Cazzati (1616-1678), Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704), Michelagnolo Galilei (1575-1631), David Pohle (1624-1695), Dario Castello (1602-1631), Marco Uccelini (1603-1680), Giovanni Battista Fontana (1589-1630), Johann Schmelzer (c.1623-1680), Georg Böhm (1661-1733), Antonio Bertali (1605-1669)

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Cappella Pratensis

This Dutch ensemble (familiar to our listeners from many performances from the Utrecht Festival) gives us an amazing program of music that surrounded the artist Hieronymus Bosch.

Composer: Pierre de la Rue (c. 1450 - 1518),

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Vox Luminis

Bach reached back to the Lutheran polychoral tradition for his motets, and the award-winning Belgian group (conducted by Lionel Meunier) makes a passionate case for their beauty.

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

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Alla francesca

The great French medieval ensemble (affiliated with the center for Medieval Music inParis) celibrates the relationship of Jews and the trouvères culture.

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