2015 Festival
Centerpiece Opera:
The Montervedi Trilogy
Ulisse | Poppea | Orfeo
Festival Concerts:
Hespèrion XXI
Jordi Savall, director & viola da gamba
with guest artists from Tembembe Ensamble Continuo
Folias, Angiquas & Criollas: From the Ancient World to the New World
Monica Huggett, Harry van der Kamp, Stephen Stubbs & Friends
in a program developed by The Portland Baroque Orchestra, Monica Huggett, Artistic Director
The Vocal Concerto: Hidden Masterpieces of 17th-century Germany
Concerto Soava
D’Amore consumato: New Music for New Loves
Philippe Pierlot, bass viol
Life, death, and life: Music of Bach, Hume, Abel, Sainte Colombe, and Foccroulle
Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam
Harry van der Kamp, director
Music of Sweelnick, J. S. Bach, and C. P. E. Bach
Sequentia
Benjamin Bagby, director
Frankish Phantoms: Echoes from the Carolingian Palaces (8th–10th centuries)
Monica Huggett, violin
Alexander Weimann, harpsichord
J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord
Three, Four & Twenty Lutes
Paul O’Dette, director
A revival of the historic BEMF 1989 concert, in memory of the late Patrick O’Brien
BEMF Vocal & Chamber Ensembles
Stephen Stubbs, conductor
Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610
Norbert Rodenkirchen, Medieval flutes
with Wolodymyr Smishkewych, narrator
Hamelin 1284: On the trail of the Pied Piper
Ricercar Consort
Philippe Pierlot, director
with Céline Scheen, soprano
Rameau in Berlin
Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier, director
Schütz and the Bach Family
Musica Pacifica
Dancing in the Isles
Juilliard415 & Royal Academy of Music
Masaaki Suzuki, conductor
Rachel Podger, concertmaster
Music of J. S. Bach
Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble
Robert Mealy, director
with Dark Horse Consort and BEMF Dance Ensemble
Inventions of Delight: Dance music from the courts of the early 17th century
Michael Form & Friends
Vivaldiana: Virtuoso Venetian Chamber Music
Keyboard Mini-Festival
curated by Darcy Kuronen, Pappalardo Curator of Musical Instruments for the MFA
featuring Alexander Weimann, Tom Beghin, and Luc Beauséjour
The Golden Age of the Clavier
Organ Mini-Festival
William Porter, director
featuring William Porter, David Yearsley, and John Scott
Counterpoint and Seconda Prattica