Week One of the Cincinnati Early Music Festival has four
events lined up, and it’s an interestingly diverse bunch.
Saturday Feb 1, our opening night, will present the very
earliest music we’ll hear this month.
The vocal group Cantigium, under the direction of Scot Buzza, will
perform early early music, some from
the period when Gregorian chant was just starting to evolve into polyphony,
when Pérotin, composing for the choirs
of Notre Dame de Paris in the 1100s, was stirring the musical pot pretty
thoroughly. In his piece we can hear the
original chant, surrounded by parallel harmonic lines, a startling innovation
for his time. And from an anonymous
scrap of music from Spain, we will hear the earliest surviving example of
three-voice polyphony.
From there the program will wander freely around the
Continent, sampling the music of the transitional centuries of the 12-, 13-,
and 1400s. We’ll hear music from German
morality plays, songs of the Crusades, English rounds, Moorish-Andalusian influenced
songs of the Virgin Mary from Galicia, Italian love epics (and, no, that song
about the dying swan isn’t actually about an injured waterfowl AT ALL, but
since it’s in medieval Italian it can be sung in polite company.) The program wraps up with a set of Josquin, one
of the greatest composers of the 15th century.
The program takes place at the Bellarmine Chapel at Xavier
University at 7:30, and is free to the public.
Event parking should be free and easy that night. For a
parking map of Xavier, click here: http://bellarminechapel.org/wp-content/files_mf/1380638643ChapelParkingMap1.pdf
For more details: http://catacoustic.com/ai1ec_event/cantigium-music-from-the-middle-ages/?instance_id=109
Saturday Feb 1, 7:30pm,
Bellarmine Chapel, Xavier University, free
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| Germany |
Then we have three programs of Baroque music, also wandering
freely around the Continent. CSO bassist
James Lambert, on viola da gamba, will headline a recital of music from the
German Baroque. Joining him on stage is
CCM Professor of Guitar and Lute Rod Stucky and cellist Colin Lambert. They will perform works by Telemann, Lidl,
Kühnel, and Schenk. This program is
presented as part of the Music in the Chapel concert series at the Episcopal
Church of the Redeemer in Hyde Park. http://catacoustic.com/ai1ec_event/viola-da-gamba-recital/?instance_id=70
Sunday Feb 2, 3:00pm,
Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, Hyde Park, free.
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| Venice |
Ubi Caritas, Band of the Baroque, will play for the Taft
Museum Chamber Music Series. They will present
music of Venice: Marini, Marcello, Selma y Salaverde, Turini, Bertoli, Vivaldi, Ziani, and Castello. Performing will be Amanda Carmen Bower, soprano,
Richard Arnest, flutes and recorders, Loren Berzsenyi, oboe, Lauren Piccirillo,
bassoon, Michael Unger, keyboards, and Jennifer Jill Araya,
violoncello. http://catacoustic.com/ai1ec_event/ubi-caritas-band-of-the-baroque-2/?instance_id=107
Sunday Feb 2, 2:30pm,
Taft Museum of Art, downtown, free
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| Spain |
And on Tuesday February 4 the Noyse Merchants will play during
Christ Church Cathedral’s Music Live at Lunch Series. This program will consist of music of Spain
from the Renaissance and Baroque eras. Performers
Tina Gutierrez, Bill Willits, and Alice Nutter will play Renaissance guitar,
Baroque guitar, lute,viola da mano, viola da gamba, and vielle. They will be joined by mezzo-soprano Melisa
Bonetti. http://catacoustic.com/ai1ec_event/noyse-merchants/?instance_id=87
Tuesday Feb 4, 12
noon, Christ Church Cathedral, downtown, free
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