Week One of the Cincinnati Early Music Festival begins right
on February 1, with the return of Cantigium.
This eight-voice chamber choir, lead by Scot Buzza, performed last year
for the Festival opening, and it was one of the most talked-about events of the
month. This remarkable group will sing
some of the oldest extant music we have, both chant and polyphony: songs of the
medieval troubadours, and songs sung by the Crusaders on their way to the Holy
Land; music from Poland’s greatest Renaissance composer; some of the first music composed in the New
World, by Spanish missionaries to Peru, in Quechua, the language of the Incas.
And they will finish their tour through time by arriving at the German Baroque
and singing a Motet by Bach. That’s
right, a motet by Bach. He didn’t write
many of them, and they’re rarely performed.
Don’t miss your chance to hear this one.
http://catacoustic.com/event/cantigium/?instance_id=301
On Monday night Feb 2 at 8:00, CCM faculty members Rod Stucky and
Mary Stucky will present a recital of music for lute, baroque guitar, and
voice. Composers represented will be Nicolas Vallet, lutenist extraordinaire
and neighbor to Dutch composer Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck; the English composer
and lutenist, Robert Johnson; and Spanish composers José Marín, a defrocked
priest, and Francisco Guerau, one of the finest guitarists of his time. http://catacoustic.com/event/faculty-artist-series-lute-and-voice/?instance_id=245 
Tuesday Feb 3 is Live at Lunch, at Christ Church Cathedral
downtown. This week features The
Shakespeare Band, with lute, Renaissance guitar, viola da gamba and voice. They will play music from the English
Renaissance. http://catacoustic.com/event/the-shakespeare-band/?instance_id=303
The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County are
hosting a series of events around town called Music of the Renaissance. A viol
trio of Catacoustic’s Annalisa Pappano and this year’s two early music
scholarship recipients Stephen Goist and Cole Guillien will play music of
Senfl, Isaac, Gibbons, and others. Two of these events take place this
week: on Feb 2 at 7:00 at the Symmes
Township Branch, and on Feb 7 at 2:00 at the Deer Park Branch. http://catacoustic.com/event/music-of-the-renaissance/?instance_id=313
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