A night of music sure to fill your spirit. Featuring a variety of music including Vivaldi’s Gloria and Bach’s Cantata 61.
Concert
Madison Bach Musicians: Baroque Holiday Concert
Internationally recognized baroque trumpet virtuoso Kathryn Adduci, and soprano soloist Ariadne Lih will join forces in the dazzling melismatic flourishes of Bach’s Cantata BWV 51 Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (Praise God in Every Land).
Early Music Now: Tenet: “The Sounds of Time: Songs of the Trouvères”
An exploration of 12th- and 13th-century songs by the French trouvères, who took over many of the forms invented by troubadours, but also infused a new, lighter vein into this great lyric tradition, in which “high art” songs of courtly love rub shoulders with cheeky tales.
All-Festival Concert – Musical Postcards from the Grand Tour
Designed and directed by Grant Herreid, the program features a narrator, loosely based on Thomas Coryat, an English seventeenth century travel writer, who, as a young man, travels throughout Europe in search of music.
Advanced Loud Band and Voice Intensive Concert
Ensemble participants perform a program based on this year’s theme. Loud band instruments include cornetto, shawm, sackbut, and dulcian. This event is free and open to the public. No pre-concert lecture.
Calmus – Faith and Madness
With a perfect blend of sound and precision, the vocal ensemble Calmus creates a program of a dialogue between sacred music masterpieces followed by madrigals that portray madness, love, war, and loneliness. Composers include Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Heinrich Schütz, Claudio Monteverdi, Carlo Gesualdo, Clément Janequin, and others.
MEMF Participant Concert
Madison Early Music Festival workshop participants perform in ensembles that have been coached by faculty artists throughout the week of the Festival. This event is free and open to the public. No pre-concert lecture.
Libera Nos: Music on Tribulation & Salvation
MEMF 2019 fringe concert performed by APERI ANIMAM.
HESPERUS – The Hunchback of Notre Dame
HESPERUS creates the soundtrack for the 1923 silent film The Hunchback of Notre Dame with music from fourteenth and fifteenth century France. Compositions include French and Burgundian music from 1300-1500, featuring Guillaume de Machaut, Jehan l’Escurel, Guillaume Dufay, as well as lesser-known composers such as Vaillant, Morton, and Borlet.
Mystery and Mirth: A Spanish Christmas
Come celebrate Christmas in July! Free admission, donations accepted at the door. Fringe concert by Schola Cantorum of Eau Claire.