4 THURSDAY NIGHTS AT 7:30 PM -- PRE-CONCERT LECTURES AT 6:30 PM
Tickets: $40 general admission; $30 students/seniors; $135 Season tickets
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Music for the Chapel Royal
October 27, 2022 7:30 pm (6:30 pm Lecture)
Music for the Chapel Royal
Choir of St. Luke in the Fields
The English Chapel Royal, founded in the 14th century, is considered to be the cradle of English church music. The reformation may have replaced Latin, but the music composed for the English rite was no less splendid and opulent. The greatest 16th century composers and musicians worked within the precincts of the Chapel Royal, including Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, Robert Parsons, John Sheppard and Orlando Gibbons. The concert will present an array of music by these composers composed for the magnificent services for the royal household.
A Bach Christmas
December 8, 2022 7:30 pm (6:30 pm Lecture)
A Bach Christmas
Choir of St. Luke in the Fields
with Baroque in the Fields period instrument ensemble
For much of his life Johann Sebastian Bach worked as a church composer, writing music to accompany services through the year. The joy of the Christmas season inspired some of his most brilliant and festive compositions. The concert will include three cantatas: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62, for Advent, Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes, BWV 40, and Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191, composed in 1745. Three years later, Bach adapted much of the music from this cantata for the Gloria section of his monumental Mass in B Minor.
The Golden Age of Portuguese Music
March 2, 2023 7:30 pm (6:30 pm Lecture)
The Golden Age of Portuguese Music
Choir of St. Luke in the Fields
By the 17th century, the transition to the Baroque style was well underway. Portuguese Renaissance composers, however, were not quick to change with the times. Rather than adopting Baroque writing techniques, they incorporated new harmonic flavors from the emerging Baroque movement into the Renaissance style, yielding some of the most exotic sounding music of the era. The concert will feature Manuel Cardoso’s sublime Requiem along with motets by Cardoso, Duarte Lobo and Vicente Lusitano, the first published Black composer.
Pergolesi Rediscovered
May 4, 2022 7:30 pm (6:30 pm Lecture)
Pergolesi Rediscovered
Choir of St. Luke in the Fields
with Baroque in the Fields period instrument ensemble
A new edition of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Mass in D Major, lost for over 300 years, is the outcome of recent musicological research carried out by the Centro Studi Pergolesi in Milan. This monumental work is full of drama and astonishing vocal virtuosity. The concert will include some of Pergolesi’s more introspective works, including the famous Stabat Mater.