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Early Music Vancouver presents large-scale masterworks of the Baroque featuring North America's finest period instrumentalists and international soloists.
G.F. Handel's
"Il Trionfo del Tempo" (1707)
Thursday, August 7, 2014 AT 7:30 PM
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC
(6265 Crescent Road, UBC campus)
Alexander Weimann music director
Amanda Forsythe soprano
Krisztina Szabó soprano
Reginald L. Mobley alto
Colin Balzer tenor
Pacific Baroque Orchestra
After last summer's groundbreaking performance of "Israel in Egypt" and the critical acclaim lavished on 2012's "Orlando", we've selected another extraordinary work from Handel's oeuvre for our 2014 Festival centrepiece. Touring to the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival before coming to Vancouver a first for EMV this production will reach greater heights of artistic expression than ever before. Beauty and Pleasure abound in Handel's first oratorio, the source of his ongoing genius.
J.S. Bach's "Christmas Oratorio"
Sunday, December 21, 2014 at 3:00pm
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC
(6265 Crescent Road, UBC campus)
Stephen Stubbs, music director
Teresa Wakim, soprano
Krisztina Szabó, mezzo-soprano
Zachary Finkelstein, tenor
Sumner Thompson, baritone
The Early Music Vancouver Baroque Orchestra
"That Early Music Vancouver has presented a selection
of these remarkable works annually for a decade, and to
enthusiastic full houses at the Chan Centre, is one of
the joys of the Vancouver holiday seasonremarkable
singing and fine ensemble w ork in music of utt erly
exceptional quality." The Vancouver Sun
Bach's great "Christmas Oratorio" begins and ends with a clamour of trumpets and a great clatter of kettledrums. Celebrate the holiday season with a collection of North America's most celebrated period instrumentalists and soloists in this festive performance of three of Bach's six
"Christmas Oratorio" Cantatas.
A collaboration with Victoria's Early Music Society of the Islands, Seattle's Pacific MusicWorks and the Portland Baroque Orchestra.
G.F. Handel's "Theodora"
Saturday, February 14, 2015 AT 7:30pm
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC (6265 Crescent Road, UBC campus)
Alexander Weimann, music director
Nathalie Paulin, soprano
Krisztina Szabó, mezzo-soprano
Lawrence Zazzo, countertenor
Zachary Wilder, tenor
Matthew Brook, bass-baritone
Pacific Baroque Orchestra
Vancouver Cantata Singers
"Theodora" is of one of Handel's largest-scale oratorios for soloists, choir and orchestra and was his personal favourite. Featuring some of the composer's most glorious music, this tragic work depicts the self-sacrificial love between a Christian virgin and a Roman imperial bodyguard. It serves as a timeless parable of spiritual resistance to tyranny and an indictment of persecution, topics that still resonate with audiences today. This production features 28 members of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, 40 members of the Vancouver Cantata Singers and five international soloists, all under the direction of Alexander Weimann.
Antonio Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons"
with Monica Huggett
Friday, May 1, 2015 at 8:00pm
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC
(6265 Crescent Road, UBC campus)
Monica Huggett, artistic director & violin soloist
Portland Baroque Orchestra
"This is a disc that merits the attention of anybody who appreciates the highest flights of violin playing, from whatever period." The Daily Telegraph, review of Monica Huggett's recording of music by Biber
Monica Huggett celebrates her 20th season with the
Portland Baroque Orchestra with a Northwest tour
of Vivaldi's inimitable Four Seasons (plus additional
works by Vivaldi and Matthew Locke). Experience
sounds and scenes of nature and country life with
the virtuosity and theatricality that Monica and the
wonderful Portland Baroque Orchestra deliver.
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LocationThe Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (View)
6265 Crescent Road
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
Canada
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