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Follow on Google News | Boston Baroque Launches its 2014 - 2015 Season with Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610Concerts are on Friday and Saturday, November 14 and 15 at Jordan Hall. Boston Baroque introduces "Improper Baroque" subscription plan invites young music lovers to network, and enjoy craft cocktails while benefiting from significant savings.
Harpsichord Interior The 90-minute long Vespers is monumental in scale, and requires a choir as large and skillful as Boston Baroque's chorus to cover up to ten vocal parts in some movements and split into separate choirs in others while accompanying seven different soloists during the course of the piece. "Even today, in an age which has heard Bach's Mass in B minor, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, and the requiems of Berlioz and Verdi, the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 is astonishing for the grandeur of its conception and the opulence of its sound. For its time, it was unprecedented. No other surviving work from that time is written on such a scale, combining the grandest of public music with the most intimate of solo songs; no other such work calls for the many colorful obbligato instruments and uses them in such a daringly modern, virtuosic way," states Martin Pearlman on the liner notes of Boston Baroque's 1998 Grammy® nominated recording of the piece. Monteverdi's unique approach to each movement of the Vespers has earned the work a place in history. The work not only presents intimate, prayerful moments within its monumental scale, but it also incorporates secular music in this decidedly religious performance and its individual movements present an array of musical forms - sonata, motet, hymn, and psalm - without losing focus. The Vespers achieves overall unity by building each movement on the traditional Gregorian plainchant for each text, which becomes a cantus firmus in Monteverdi's setting. Improper Baroque Subscription! This season, Boston Baroque is also offering special subscription package for our patrons under 30 years old. A three-concert subscription is available for $100 as part of our ongoing “Improper Baroque” series for young professionals. Individual tickets will also be made available to young professionals on the day of the performances for just $30. Even better yet, tickets and/or subscriptions also include an invitation to the Improper Baroque Pre-concert Receptions, Boston Baroque’s new and fun cocktail receptions for young professionals looking to network and share their passion for classical music, arts and culture: Friday, November 14 [Vespers], Friday December 12 [The Messiah], Friday, February 27 [St. John Passion] and Friday, April 24 [Agrippina]. About Boston Baroque: Boston Baroque is the first permanent Baroque orchestra established in North America, and is widely regarded as "one of the world's premier period-instrument bands." (Fanfare). The ensemble produces lively, emotionally charged, ground-breaking performances of Baroque and Classical works for today's audiences, performed on period-instruments and using performance techniques that reflect the eras in which the music was composed. Founded in 1973 by Music Director Martin Pearlman, Boston Baroque's orchestra is made up of some of the finest period-instrument players in the United States; they are frequently joined by the ensemble's professional chorus and by instrumental and vocal soloists from around the world. The ensemble presents an annual subscription series consisting of five programs that are performed at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, or Harvard University's Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, MA. Season subscriptions from $165 to $425 and single concert tickets from $35 to $95 are available at bostonbaroque.org (http://www.bostonbaroque.org) or by calling: 617-987-8600. Claudio Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610 (Vespro della beata Vergine, 1610) November 14 & 15, 2014, 8:00 PM NEC’s Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA Yulia Van Doren, soprano 1 (Boston Baroque debut) Teresa Wakim, soprano 2 Thomas Cooley, tenor 1 (Boston Baroque debut) Aaron Sheehan, tenor 2 Boston Baroque Chorus George Frideric Handel: Messiah December 12 & 13, 2014, 7:30 PM NEC’s Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA Sherezade Panthaki, soprano (Boston Baroque debut) Ann McMahon Quintero, mezzo-soprano William Burden, tenor Dashon Burton, bass-baritone (Boston Baroque debut) And the Boston Baroque Chorus A Classical New Year’s Eve & First Day Concerts December 31, 2014, 8:00 PM and January 1, 2015, 3:00 PM Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge Domenico Cimarosa: Il maestro di cappella Andrew Garland, baritone Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Duets and Arias Sara Heaton, soprano Andrew Garland, baritone Johann Sebastian Bach: St. John Passion February 27 & 28, 2015 at 8 PM NEC’s Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA John Mark Ainsley, tenor as the Evangelist (Boston Baroque debut) Andrew Garland, baritone as Jesus Mary Wilson, soprano Christopher Lowrey, countertenor Nicholas Phan, tenor Jesse Blumberg, baritone And the Boston Baroque Chorus OPERA: George Frideric Handel: Agrippina April 24 & 25, 2015 at 7:30 PM NEC’s Jordan Hall, Boston Susanna Phillips, soprano as Agrippina (Boston Baroque debut) David Hansen, countertenor as Nerone (Boston Baroque debut) Marie Lenormand, mezzo-soprano as Ottone Amanda Forsythe, soprano as Poppea Kevin Deas, bass-baritone as Claudius Douglas Williams, bass-baritone as Pallante (Boston Baroque debut) Krista River, mezzo-soprano as Narcissus and Juno Season Subscriptions: Additional information: End
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