2021 Festival | June 6–13, 2021
Festival Concerts
Hailed as “Heaven…for early music fans” by The New York Times, the 2021 Virtual Festival presented a series of 14 premium concerts and recitals showcasing some of the world’s most accomplished Early Music artists and ensembles. Each performance was newly filmed and recorded—safely and responsibly—and premiered exclusively for BEMF audiences.
MONDAY | JUNE 7, 2021
12PM | Ensemble Correspondances & Lucile Richardot, mezzo-soprano
Sébastien Daucé, director
Perpetual Night: 17th-century Ayres and Songs
Recorded December 8, 2020 at Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris, France
8PM | Doulce Mémoire
Denis Raisin Dadre, director
Leonardo da Vinci: The Hidden Music
Recorded at Château du Clos Lucé, Amboise, France
TUESDAY | JUNE 8, 2021
8PM | Cinquecento
Jean Richafort: A Requiem for Josquin
Recorded at Hofburgkapelle: Imperial Chapel, Vienna, Austria
WEDNESDAY | JUNE 9, 2021
Organ Mini-Festival
11:30am | Leo van Doeselaar, organ
Johann Sebastian Bach, his teachers, and his sons
Recorded on the Arp Schnitger Organ, Martinikerk, Groningen, The Netherlands
1pm | Catalina Vicens, organetto
Simple Solace
Recorded on location in Basel, Switzerland
2:30pm | Benjamin Alard, organ
London’s Castle Grant Chamber Organ: Works of Blow, Purcell, Handel, and J.S. Bach
Recorded on the Castle Grant Chamber Organ by John Byfield II, London, 1766, Musée de Provins et du Provinois, Provins, France
8PM | L’Achéron
François Joubert-Caillet, director
Dowland & Holborne: Lachrimae, or the Image of Melancholy
Recorded at Château de Lunéville (“the Versailles of Lorraine”), Lunéville, France
10PM | Juilliard415
Robert Mealy, director & violin
Terpsichore: A Baroque Dance Mix
Recorded April 12, 2016 at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, New York, New York
THURSDAY | JUNE 10, 2021
Keyboard Mini-Festival
11:30am | Benjamin Alard, clavichord
The Expressive Clavichord: Works of Buxtehude, Fischer, J. S. Bach, and C. P. E. Bach
Recorded at Musée de Provins et du Provinois, Provins, France
1pm | Francesco Corti, harpsichord
Streams to Bach: Works of Scheidemann, Froberger, Reincken, Kuhnaul, and J. S. Bach
Recorded on location in Basel, Switzerland
2:30pm | Carmen Leoni, fortepiano
Lo scherzo ingegnoso dell’arte: Keyboard Sonatas by Scarlatti, Haydn, and Mozart
Recorded on location in Lavagna, Italy
8PM | Amanda Forsythe, soprano
& BEMF Chamber Ensemble
Stephen Stubbs, director
Handel as Orpheus
Recorded at the GBH Fraser Performance Studio, Boston, Massachusetts
10PM | Erik Bosgraaf, recorder & Francesco Corti, harpsichord
The Recorder Sonatas of Georg Philipp Telemann
Recorded at Musikbrauerei, Säulenhalle, Berlin, Germany
FRIDAY | JUNE 11, 2021
8PM | BEMF Vocal & Chamber Ensembles
Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Tempro la cetra: I tune the lyre
Recorded at the GBH Fraser Performance Studio, Boston, Massachusetts
Teresa Wakim, soprano; Reginald Mobley, countertenor; Aaron Sheehan and Jason McStoots, tenor; Jonathan Woody, bass-baritone
10PM | Paul O’Dette, lute
Only Joy: Elizabethan Lute Music of Solace and Joy
Recorded on location in Rochester, New York
SUNDAY | JUNE 13, 2021
8PM | ACRONYM
Ad Astra: Music of Valentini, Bertali, Schmelzer, Rosenmüller, and others
Recorded at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy, New York