Music and Ceremony in the Renaissance

Lecture, 4:30 pm; Performance, 5:15 pm

Bach Cantatas

Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid (I), BWV 3
Ein ungefärbt Gemüte, BWV 24
Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51
In allen meinen Taten, BWV 97

Join Piffaro in a lively all-instrumental concert featuring Kiri Tollaksen, cornetto, and Adam Bregman, sackbut. We’ll celebrate 35 years of transporting audiences to the courts, cathedrals, and countryside of Renaissance Europe. Piffaro’s unique instrumentarium is the star of this show!

Join Piffaro in a lively all-instrumental concert featuring Kiri Tollaksen, cornetto, and Adam Bregman, sackbut. We’ll celebrate 35 years of transporting audiences to the courts, cathedrals, and countryside of Renaissance Europe. Piffaro’s unique instrumentarium is the star of this show!

Join Piffaro in a lively all-instrumental concert featuring Kiri Tollaksen, cornetto, and Adam Bregman, sackbut. We’ll celebrate 35 years of transporting audiences to the courts, cathedrals, and countryside of Renaissance Europe. Piffaro’s unique instrumentarium is the star of this show!

Purcell's Fantazias

Purcell's Fantazias

Fantasias and Chaconnes
a workshop for recorders with members of New World Recorders - Priscilla Herreid, Gwyn Roberts, Héloïse Degrugillier, Rainer Beckmann

Orchestral Gardeners
Concerti and Suites by Handel and Telemann

Handel and Telemann exchanged letters, music and plants for their gardens, while creating some of the finest works in the high baroque orchestral repertoire.

Georg Philipp Telemann: Concerto for Multiple Instruments, TWV 54-F1
George Frideric Handel: Concerto in G Minor, HWV 287
Georg Philipp Telemann: Entr’actes, TWV deest
George Frideric Handel: Concerto grosso Op. 3 No 1, HWV 312

Orchestral Gardeners
Concerti and Suites by Handel and Telemann

Handel and Telemann exchanged letters, music and plants for their gardens, while creating some of the finest works in the high baroque orchestral repertoire.

Georg Philipp Telemann: Concerto for Multiple Instruments, TWV 54-F1
George Frideric Handel: Concerto in G Minor, HWV 287
Georg Philipp Telemann: Entr’actes, TWV deest
George Frideric Handel: Concerto grosso Op. 3 No 1, HWV 312

Handel's Coronation Anthems

Mozart - Arias for Soprano; "Linz" Symphony No. 36 in D
Haydn - Symphony No. 102 in B flat

Mozart - Arias for Soprano; "Linz" Symphony No. 36 in D
Haydn - Symphony No. 102 in B flat

Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concerto in A Major, Wq. 172/H. 439
Mozart: Symphony No. 41, Jupiter

Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concerto in A Major, Wq. 172/H. 439
Mozart: Symphony No. 41, Jupiter

Handel's Messiah
Masaaki Suzuki, conductor
Elizabeth Watts, soprano
Reginald Mobley, countertenor
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Dashon Burton, bass-baritone
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Handel's Messiah
Masaaki Suzuki, conductor
Elizabeth Watts, soprano
Reginald Mobley, countertenor
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Dashon Burton, bass-baritone
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Handel's Messiah
Masaaki Suzuki, conductor
Elizabeth Watts, soprano
Reginald Mobley, countertenor
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Dashon Burton, bass-baritone
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Johann Sebastian Bach, Complete Brandenburg Concertos (1721)

Handel's Messiah
Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Ann McMahon Quintero, mezzo-soprano
Thomas Cooley, tenor
Andrew Garland, baritone

Johann Sebastian Bach, Complete Brandenburg Concertos (1721)

Handel's Messiah
Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Ann McMahon Quintero, mezzo-soprano
Thomas Cooley, tenor
Andrew Garland, baritone

Johann Sebastian Bach, Complete Brandenburg Concertos (1721)

Grammy Award-winning tenor Karim Sulayman (Best Classical Solo Vocal Album) and soprano Nell Snaidas join Piffaro’s musicians in a reverent and raucous exploration of the Christian and pagan traditions of Christmas in merrie old England.

Grammy Award-winning tenor Karim Sulayman (Best Classical Solo Vocal Album) and soprano Nell Snaidas join Piffaro’s musicians in a reverent and raucous exploration of the Christian and pagan traditions of Christmas in merrie old England.

Grammy Award-winning tenor Karim Sulayman (Best Classical Solo Vocal Album) and soprano Nell Snaidas join Piffaro’s musicians in a reverent and raucous exploration of the Christian and pagan traditions of Christmas in merrie old England.

J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Parts I, III, V, and VI
led by Richard Egarr

J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Parts I, III, V, and VI
led by Richard Egarr

Handel's Messiah

Handel's Messiah

Handel's Messiah

New Year's Eve Celebration with Bach, Corelli, Vivaldi, and Rameau

New Year's Eve Celebration with Bach, Corelli, Vivaldi, and Rameau

Bach's Brandenburgs
University of Houston - Clear Lake

Bach's Brandenburgs

Priscilla features in Telemann's Ouverture-Suite in A minor
also:
Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville - Sonata No. 1 from Pièces de clavecin en sonates
George Frideric Handel - Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 5
Jean-Baptiste Lully - Armide, passacaille
Georg Muffat - Sonata No. 5 from Armonico tributo

The Marchesa: Isabella d’Este
This program honors the great Isabella d’Este, a politician, mother, taste-maker, musician, writer, art collector, and one of the most important patrons of the Italian Renaissance. These concerts feature the frottole, an Italian song form that propagated at Isabella d’Este’s Mantuan court. Isabella commissioned her favorite poets and composers including Josquin des Prez (c. 1450-1521), Bartolomeo Tromboncino (d. 1534) and Marco Cara (d. 1525) to craft these short, amorous songs, which she herself enjoyed performing. Soprano Ellen Hargis gives voice to this sensual Italian poetry accompanied by a variety of Renaissance instruments, including guitar, lute, shawms, recorders, and strings.

The Marchesa: Isabella d’Este
This program honors the great Isabella d’Este, a politician, mother, taste-maker, musician, writer, art collector, and one of the most important patrons of the Italian Renaissance. These concerts feature the frottole, an Italian song form that propagated at Isabella d’Este’s Mantuan court. Isabella commissioned her favorite poets and composers including Josquin des Prez (c. 1450-1521), Bartolomeo Tromboncino (d. 1534) and Marco Cara (d. 1525) to craft these short, amorous songs, which she herself enjoyed performing. Soprano Ellen Hargis gives voice to this sensual Italian poetry accompanied by a variety of Renaissance instruments, including guitar, lute, shawms, recorders, and strings.

The Marchesa: Isabella d’Este
This program honors the great Isabella d’Este, a politician, mother, taste-maker, musician, writer, art collector, and one of the most important patrons of the Italian Renaissance. These concerts feature the frottole, an Italian song form that propagated at Isabella d’Este’s Mantuan court. Isabella commissioned her favorite poets and composers including Josquin des Prez (c. 1450-1521), Bartolomeo Tromboncino (d. 1534) and Marco Cara (d. 1525) to craft these short, amorous songs, which she herself enjoyed performing. Soprano Ellen Hargis gives voice to this sensual Italian poetry accompanied by a variety of Renaissance instruments, including guitar, lute, shawms, recorders, and strings.

C.P.E. Bach - Sinfonia for Strings in C Major, Wq. 182/3
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 3
Mozart - Rondo in A Major, K. 386
Mozart - Symphony No. 36, Linz
Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano and director

C.P.E. Bach - Sinfonia for Strings in C Major, Wq. 182/3
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 3
Mozart - Rondo in A Major, K. 386
Mozart - Symphony No. 36, Linz
Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano and director

The Marchesa: Isabella d’Este
This program honors the great Isabella d’Este, a politician, mother, taste-maker, musician, writer, art collector, and one of the most important patrons of the Italian Renaissance. These concerts feature the frottole, an Italian song form that propagated at Isabella d’Este’s Mantuan court. Isabella commissioned her favorite poets and composers including Josquin des Prez (c. 1450-1521), Bartolomeo Tromboncino (d. 1534) and Marco Cara (d. 1525) to craft these short, amorous songs, which she herself enjoyed performing. Soprano Ellen Hargis gives voice to this sensual Italian poetry accompanied by a variety of Renaissance instruments, including guitar, lute, shawms, recorders, and strings.

The Marchesa: Isabella d’Este
This program honors the great Isabella d’Este, a politician, mother, taste-maker, musician, writer, art collector, and one of the most important patrons of the Italian Renaissance. These concerts feature the frottole, an Italian song form that propagated at Isabella d’Este’s Mantuan court. Isabella commissioned her favorite poets and composers including Josquin des Prez (c. 1450-1521), Bartolomeo Tromboncino (d. 1534) and Marco Cara (d. 1525) to craft these short, amorous songs, which she herself enjoyed performing. Soprano Ellen Hargis gives voice to this sensual Italian poetry accompanied by a variety of Renaissance instruments, including guitar, lute, shawms, recorders, and strings.

The Marchesa: Isabella d’Este
This program honors the great Isabella d’Este, a politician, mother, taste-maker, musician, writer, art collector, and one of the most important patrons of the Italian Renaissance. These concerts feature the frottole, an Italian song form that propagated at Isabella d’Este’s Mantuan court. Isabella commissioned her favorite poets and composers including Josquin des Prez (c. 1450-1521), Bartolomeo Tromboncino (d. 1534) and Marco Cara (d. 1525) to craft these short, amorous songs, which she herself enjoyed performing. Soprano Ellen Hargis gives voice to this sensual Italian poetry accompanied by a variety of Renaissance instruments, including guitar, lute, shawms, recorders, and strings.

Mississippi Bubble
Music by Bach, Rebel and Telemann's riff on the 1720 Louisiana Financial Crash

Mississippi Bubble
Music by Bach, Rebel and Telemann's riff on the 1720 Louisiana Financial Crash

J.S. Bach's Art of Fugue
presented by The German Society of Pennsylvania's Wister and More Series

Dresdner Klangfarben

The Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra Tempesta di Mare is ‘returning’ to Dresden music by Telemann, Fasch and Rebel that lives in manuscript form at the the Dresden State Library, and some of which Tempesta performed modern premieres of in Philadelphia.

Bach’s 335th Birthday Concert

A program of cantatas and chamber music by Bach and Telemann with singers from the St. Thomas Church Choir in celebration of their most famous Kapellmeister, Johann Sebastian Bach.

Tempesta will be the first non-European Ensemble to perform at the longest-running festival celebrating Georg Philipp Telemann: the Magdeburger Telemann Festtage. Taking place bi-annually in his city of birth, the festival features 10 days of concerts, lectures and programs. Tempesta will perform the closing concert.

Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Vivaldi - Gloria in D
Monteverdi - Beatus Vir

Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Vivaldi - Gloria in D
Monteverdi - Beatus Vir

Bach's St. Matthew Passion
Harry Christophers, conductor
Joshua Ellicott, tenor (Evangelist)
Matthew Brook, bass-baritone (Jesus)
Joélle Harvey, soprano
Paula Murrihy, mezzo-soprano
Jeremy Budd, tenor
Stephan MacLeod, bass-baritone
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Bach's St. Matthew Passion
Harry Christophers, conductor
Joshua Ellicott, tenor (Evangelist)
Matthew Brook, bass-baritone (Jesus)
Joélle Harvey, soprano
Paula Murrihy, mezzo-soprano
Jeremy Budd, tenor
Stephan MacLeod, bass-baritone
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Corelli - Concerto Grosso in F, Op. 6, No. 6
Vivaldi - Nulla in mundo pax sincera
Bach - Orchestral Suite No. 4, BWV 1069
Rameau - Suite from Les Indes Galantes
Handel - Music for the Royal Fireworks

The Four Winds
Recorders, flutes and oboe appear in multiple combinations with and without continuo, in original compositions inspired by the special colors and expressiveness of the woodwind instruments.

The Four Winds
Recorders, flutes and oboe appear in multiple combinations with and without continuo, in original compositions inspired by the special colors and expressiveness of the woodwind instruments.

The Four Winds
Recorders, flutes and oboe appear in multiple combinations with and without continuo, in original compositions inspired by the special colors and expressiveness of the woodwind instruments.

Handel's Ariodante

Paula Murrihy - Ariodante
Kiera Duffy - Ginevra
Sonja Tengblad - Dalinda
Ann McMahon Quintero - Polinesso
Rufus Müller - Lurcanio
Matthew Brook - King of Scotland
Jonas Budris - Odoardo

Handel's Ariodante

Paula Murrihy - Ariodante
Kiera Duffy - Ginevra
Sonja Tengblad - Dalinda
Ann McMahon Quintero - Polinesso
Rufus Müller - Lurcanio
Matthew Brook - King of Scotland
Jonas Budris - Odoardo

J.S. Bach – Es erhub sich ein Streit, BWV 19
Johann Christian Schiefferdecker – Concert No. 1 in A Minor

Handel: “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" from Solomon
Handel: Dixit Dominus
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

Handel: “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" from Solomon
Handel: Dixit Dominus
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

J.S. Bach – O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20
Antonio Vivaldi – Overture to “L’Olimpiade"

Concerts Avec Plusieurs Instruments

Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
Bach - Concerto for violin and oboe
Telemann - Paris quartet No. 6
Telemann - Concerto for recorder and flute
Vivaldi - Chamber concerto in G Minor, RV 107

Dominic Teresi, Bassoon
Beth Wenstrom, Violin
Alexander Woods, Violin
Jessica Troy, Viola
Ezra Seltzer, Cello
Avi Stein, Harpsichord
Priscilla Herreid, Oboe & Recorder
Emi Ferguson, Flute

Concerts Avec Plusieurs Instruments

Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
Bach - Concerto for violin and oboe
Telemann - Paris quartet No. 6
Telemann - Concerto for recorder and flute
Vivaldi - Chamber concerto in G Minor, RV 107

Dominic Teresi, Bassoon
Beth Wenstrom, Violin
Alexander Woods, Violin
Jessica Troy, Viola
Ezra Seltzer, Cello
Avi Stein, Harpsichord
Priscilla Herreid, Oboe & Recorder
Emi Ferguson, Flute

“No music over 40 years old is worth hearing" (15th c. music theorist Johannes Tinctoris). Philadelphia’s exciting new-old vocal ensemble Variant 6 helps us illuminate major shifts in the tectonics of music history, culminating in the world premiere of a new work by composer Kile Smith, written for Piffaro’s 35th anniversary.

“No music over 40 years old is worth hearing" (15th c. music theorist Johannes Tinctoris). Philadelphia’s exciting new-old vocal ensemble Variant 6 helps us illuminate major shifts in the tectonics of music history, culminating in the world premiere of a new work by composer Kile Smith, written for Piffaro’s 35th anniversary.

“No music over 40 years old is worth hearing" (15th c. music theorist Johannes Tinctoris). Philadelphia’s exciting new-old vocal ensemble Variant 6 helps us illuminate major shifts in the tectonics of music history, culminating in the world premiere of a new work by composer Kile Smith, written for Piffaro’s 35th anniversary.