The spectacular Canzone installation is illuminated through sound by two music programs: Variations and Cantations.
VARIATIONS
Led by critically-acclaimed pianist Sonya Lifschitz, contemporary ensemble Press, Play takes the sensuous splendor of Monteverdi’s madrigals as a departure point to create Variations - an inspired musical journey in time from the sumptuous beauty of High Renaissance, via the liturgical purity of Baroque, to the unpredictable whimsy of modernity.
Featuring Sonya Lifschitz (piano), Laila Engle (flute), Callum Moncrief (percussion), Alexandra Sherman (mezzo soprano) and Tabatha McFadyen (soprano), Press, Play invite you on an impassioned musical and visual journey as words, sounds, and images collide and coalesce.
MONTEVERDI (ARR. P. SARCICH) / Con Che Soavita
SAARIAHO / Si Dolce è il Tormento
MONTEVERDI (ARR. P. SARCICH) / Si Dolce è il Tormento
CRUMB / Little Suite for Christmas (selections)
MONTEVERDI (ARR. SARCICH) /Lamento d'Arianna
BACH (ARR. J. BRAHMS and E. MORENO) / Chaconne in D minor
MONTEVERDI (ARR. T. MUNRO) / Lamento della Ninfa
SCELSI / Hyxos
MONTEVERDI (ARR. P. SARCICH) / Pur ti Miro, Pur ti Godo (from L’incoronazione di Poppea)
Variations performance times
Tue 13 October at 3pm (combined Cantations andVariations abridged programs)
Wed 14 October at 3pm
Thu 15 October at 5pm
Tue 20 October at 3pm
Wed 21 October at 3pm
Thu 22 October at 5pm
CANTATIONS
Cantations features the historically accurate performance of leading Monteverdi scholar and harpsichordist John O’Donnell and the singers of Accademia Arcadia. The program features works from Monteverdi’s 7th and 8th book of Madrigals, as well as his contemporaries Giovanni Picchi and Girolamo Frescobaldi.
Featuring John O’Donnell (harpsichord), Jerzy Kozlowski (bass), Dan Walker (tenor), Michelle Clark (soprano) and Christopher Roache (tenor and counter tenor).
MONTEVERDI / Ninfa che scalza il piede from the 8th Book of Madrigals
MONTEVERDI / Con che soavita from the 7th Book of Madrigals
MONTEVERDI / Pur ti miro, pur ti godo from L'Incoronazione di Poppea
PICCHI / Toccata
MONTEVERDI / Mentre vaga Angioletta from the 8th Book of Madrigals
MONTEVERDI /Gira el nemico from the 8th Book of Madrigals
FRESCOBALDI / Cento partite sopra passacagli
MONTEVERDI / Amor: Lamento della Ninfa from8th Book of Madrigals
Cantations performance times
Tue 13 October at 3pm (combined Cantations andVariations abridged programs)
Wed 14 October at 5pm
Thu 15 October at 3pm
Tue 20 October at 12pm
Wed 21 October at 5pm
Thu 22 October at 3pm
