1993 Festival
Operatic Centerpiece
L’Orfeo
Music by Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)
Libretto by Alessandro Striggio the Younger (ca. 1573–1630)
Festival Concerts
Colin Tilney, harpsichord & virginals
Music of William Byrd (1543–1623): In Europe is none like to our English man
Paul O’Dette, lute
Dowland and Byrd
Members of the BEMF L’Orfeo Orchestra and Cast
directed by Paul O’Dette and Andrew Parrott
The Phœnix and the Oracle: Musicke of sundrie natures from the time of Monteverdi and Byrd
The King’s Noyse
directed by David Douglass
A Light Heart’s a Jewell: Ballads for voice and violin band
The Boston Camerata
directed by Joel Cohen
Schola Cantorum of Boston
directed by L. Frederick Jodry
Trav’ling Home: Musical migrations in England and America, 1775–1875
Elisabeth Wright, harpsichord & virginals
Mad Italians and Englishmen
Concerto Palatino
directed by Bruce Dickey and Charles Toet
Effetti e Stravagante: Affect and effect in 17th-century instrumental music
Andrew Lawrence-King, harp & double harp
The Seventeenth-Century Harp
Handel and Haydn Society Chorus
directed by John Finney
with James David Christie, organ
William Byrd (1543–1623): Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal—Anthems, Psalms, and Canticles
