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Concerts by virtuoso performers on period instruments in attractive venues in the New London, CT area
The French Connection: French Music and Musical Traditions
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WEEK ONE 8 pm, Saturday, June 12, 2010 (7 P.M. Pre-concert talk by Dr. Glenn Stanley, University of Connecticut) From Northampton, MA – Arcadia Players presents Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, “Eroica,” in E-flat Major, Op. 55; Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37.After the Arcadia Players’ stunning concert at last year’s Festival, conductor Ian Watson returns to open the Festival with two of Beethoven’s masterpieces (one of which originally bore a dedication to Napoleon Bonaparte). Marvin Ward of Classical Voice of New England writes of Arcadia’s musicians: “While theirs are not names with international-star recognition, they are certainly of that quality…. They are…the incarnation of consummate musicianship and artistry.” www.arcadiaplayers.org |
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5 pm, Sunday, June 13, 2010 (4 P.M. Pre-concert talk by Scott Metcalfe, Music Director of Blue Heron Renaissance Choir) From Boston – Blue Heron Renaissance Choir presents The Virgin and the Singer — Sacred Renaissance Music from French Courts.For the third consecutive year, CEMF will present a cappella Renaissance music at the acoustically superb Christ the King Church in Old Lyme. Blue Heron Renaissance Choir, directed by Scott Metcalfe, has a “commitment to audience engagement, performance quality, and historical veracity that awes even the most scrupulous of experts…[and] sets the standards for the presentation of Renaissance vocal music.” (Peter Van Zandt Lane, Boston Music Intelligencer, March 2009). www.blueheronchoir.org Listen to Blue Heron sing Francisco Guerrero’s Surge, propera, amica mea. - Photo by Liz Linder |
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WEEK TWO
8 pm, Saturday, June 19, 2010 Le Triomphe de L’Amour: Music and Dance from the Court of Louis XIV, with Ken Pierce Baroque Dancers, a glittering evening that combines exquisite baroque dance sets in period dress with music by the great composers of the French court, including Marin Marais, François Couperin, and Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer and dance master to the King.
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5 pm, Sunday, June 20, 2010 (4 P.M. Pre-concert talk by CEMF Artistic Director Eric Rice) From Texas – Istanpitta presents Marie de France’s Chevrefoil, the original Tristan and Isolde!In this lively reconstruction, Istanpitta brings Marie’s tale to life with medieval songs and dances. www.istanpitta.com |
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WEEK THREE 8 pm, Saturday, June 26, 2010 Listen to Guido’s Ear perform a violin sonata by Dario Castello (fl. ca. 1620). |
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5 pm, Sunday, June 27, 2010 (4 P.M. Pre-concert talk by CEMF Artistic Director Eric Rice) Connecticut Early Music Festival Productions presents Bach, Rameau, and the Era of the Sun King.Artistic Director Eric Rice conducts a concert juxtaposing the sacred music of Jean-Philippe Rameau with that of his more famous German counterpart. In convertendo, one of Rameau’s boldly orchestrated grands motets for Vespers at the court of Louis XIV, will be heard alongside Bach’s Höchsterwünschtes Freudenfest, BWV 194, a cantata written for the consecration of Störmthal Church in 1723, and his Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major, which displays his wonderful command of the various French dances then in vogue. Listen to CEMF Productions performance of the Gloria of Fux’s Missa Corporis Christi. |
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Titles, programs, and concert times subject to change without notice