Boston Early Music Festival
The Tallis ScholarsRenaissance Splendor: Music of Monteverdi, Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus, and others
A new performing edition of Monteverdi’s Mass for Four Voices highlights this program, which also features music of Palestrina, two possibly linked settings of Media vita by Gombert and Lassus, Magnificat Quarti Toni by Gombert, and Stabat juxta by John Browne.
Saturday, March 24, 2007 at 8pm
St. Paul Church, 129 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA
Free pre-concert talk at 6:30pm with Peter Phillips; free parking at the Broadway Garage at Harvard University
Tickets: $25-$64 at
Masterclass with Peter Phillips on Saturday, March 24 at 1pm at First Lutheran Church, 299 Berkeley Street in Boston; auditors $10 at the door
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Trio Mediaeval
A Medieval European Tour: Music of 13th- and 14th-century France and Italy Movements from the Messe de Tournai and Italian laude.
Friday, March 30, 2007 at 8pm
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
Free pre-concert talk at 6:30pm with Trio Mediaeval; free parking at the Everett Garage at Harvard University
Tickets: $25-$64 at
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The King’s Noyse
Le Jardin de Mélodies: 16th-century French dances and songs
Renaissance French ballad and dance-song repertory from the ensemble’s Noah Greenberg Award-winning program
Monday, June 11, 2007 at 8pm
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA
Tickets: $22-$56 at
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Ensemble Clément Janequin
Les Plaisirs du Palais: A palindromic banquet of Franco-Flemish music
A selection of songs on drinking, feasting, hunting, and seduction as well as dancing, comedy, and poetry dressed in the sort of conceit a Renaissance mind would have adored: a palindrome around the intermission such that the second half of the concert is a mirror image of the first.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 8pm
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA
Tickets: $22-$56 at
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The Orlando Consort
The Rose, the Lily, and the Whortleberry: Medieval and Renaissance gardens in music
Music inspired by the symbolic and allegorical allure of flowers, based on their best-selling CD.
Thursday, June 14, 2007 at 5pm
Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston, MA
Tickets: $22-$56 at
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Sequentia
Edda: Viking Tales of Lust, Revenge, and Family
A magically theatrical piece recounting one of the earliest Norse legends of the Rheingold curse: a bloody tale of revenge and seduction that also inspired Wagner’s Ring Cycle.
Friday, June 15, 2007 at 8pm
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA
Tickets: $22-$56 at
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Ensemble Clément Janequin
Le Chant des Oylseaux: Works by Janequin, Le Roy, Brayssing, and Lejeune
A program exploring the fascinating connection between birdsong, love and music.
Friday, June 15, 2007 at 11pm
Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston, MA
Tickets: $20 at
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Le Poème Harmonique
Aux Marches du Palais: Traditional French romances and laments
French songs from the oral traditions of both popular and art music—miniature masterpieces still well-known in France today.
Saturday, June 16, 2007 at 8pm
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA
Tickets: $22-$56 at
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Part of the 14th biennial Boston Early Music Festival
Feast of the Gods
11-17 June 2007
Featuring the North American premiere of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s spectacular 1678 opera Psyché starring Carolyn Gauvin and Karina Gauvin with the Grammy-nominated BEMF Orchestra & Chorus, Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
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