Brandywine Baroque presents Harpsichord Heaven

April 26-28, 2019

Les Délices caps off their 10th Anniversary season with ground-breaking music depicting the chaos of creation and the elements of water, fire, earth, and air. Beginning with Les Délices’ new arrangement of Jean-Féry Rebel’s remarkable tone poem Les Elemens (1737) and culminating in the world premiere of Theo Chandler’s gestural and coloristic response, The Elements (2019), this dynamic program explores 18th-century ideas about the natural order while expanding the sound palette for period instruments. Evocative musical representations of natural and man-made disasters by Jean-Philippe Rameau complete the program.

Les Délices caps off their 10th Anniversary season with ground-breaking music depicting the chaos of creation and the elements of water, fire, earth, and air. Beginning with Les Délices’ new arrangement of Jean-Féry Rebel’s remarkable tone poem Les Elemens (1737) and culminating in the world premiere of Theo Chandler’s gestural and coloristic response, The Elements (2019), this dynamic program explores 18th-century ideas about the natural order while expanding the sound palette for period instruments. Evocative musical representations of natural and man-made disasters by Jean-Philippe Rameau complete the program.

Les Délices caps off their 10th Anniversary season with ground-breaking music depicting the chaos of creation and the elements of water, fire, earth, and air. Beginning with Les Délices’ new arrangement of Jean-Féry Rebel’s remarkable tone poem Les Elemens (1737) and culminating in the world premiere of Theo Chandler’s gestural and coloristic response, The Elements (2019), this dynamic program explores 18th-century ideas about the natural order while expanding the sound palette for period instruments. Evocative musical representations of natural and man-made disasters by Jean-Philippe Rameau complete the program.

World-renowned Bach specialist Masaaki Suzuki directs the composer’s iconic masterpiece.

In a standout highlight of this anniversary season, Masaaki Suzuki, multi award-winning conductor and founder of the Bach Collegium Japan, makes his Tafelmusik debut conducting one of Western culture’s most iconic masterpieces: Bach’s St Matthew Passion.

Bach’s musical telling of Christ’s final hours is a monumental work for vocal soloists, two choirs, and two orchestras. It combines drama with devotion, questions as much as it reassures, and contains some of Bach’s most beautiful and exquisitely crafted music. In its depth and spirituality, St Matthew Passion is a work that speaks to the whole of humanity. 

World-renowned Bach specialist Masaaki Suzuki directs the composer’s iconic masterpiece.

In a standout highlight of this anniversary season, Masaaki Suzuki, multi award-winning conductor and founder of the Bach Collegium Japan, makes his Tafelmusik debut conducting one of Western culture’s most iconic masterpieces: Bach’s St Matthew Passion.

Bach’s musical telling of Christ’s final hours is a monumental work for vocal soloists, two choirs, and two orchestras. It combines drama with devotion, questions as much as it reassures, and contains some of Bach’s most beautiful and exquisitely crafted music. In its depth and spirituality, St Matthew Passion is a work that speaks to the whole of humanity. 

World-renowned Bach specialist Masaaki Suzuki directs the composer’s iconic masterpiece.

In a standout highlight of this anniversary season, Masaaki Suzuki, multi award-winning conductor and founder of the Bach Collegium Japan, makes his Tafelmusik debut conducting one of Western culture’s most iconic masterpieces: Bach’s St Matthew Passion.

Bach’s musical telling of Christ’s final hours is a monumental work for vocal soloists, two choirs, and two orchestras. It combines drama with devotion, questions as much as it reassures, and contains some of Bach’s most beautiful and exquisitely crafted music. In its depth and spirituality, St Matthew Passion is a work that speaks to the whole of humanity. 

World-renowned Bach specialist Masaaki Suzuki directs the composer’s iconic masterpiece.

In a standout highlight of this anniversary season, Masaaki Suzuki, multi award-winning conductor and founder of the Bach Collegium Japan, makes his Tafelmusik debut conducting one of Western culture’s most iconic masterpieces: Bach’s St Matthew Passion.

Bach’s musical telling of Christ’s final hours is a monumental work for vocal soloists, two choirs, and two orchestras. It combines drama with devotion, questions as much as it reassures, and contains some of Bach’s most beautiful and exquisitely crafted music. In its depth and spirituality, St Matthew Passion is a work that speaks to the whole of humanity. 

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra tours across Metro Detroit bringing you musical masterpieces. Don’t miss Vivaldi’s timeless The Four Seasons, and the chance to see and hear guest artists from all over the world.

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra tours across Metro Detroit bringing you musical masterpieces. Don’t miss Vivaldi’s timeless The Four Seasons, and the chance to see and hear guest artists from all over the world.

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra tours across Metro Detroit bringing you musical masterpieces. Don’t miss Vivaldi’s timeless The Four Seasons, and the chance to see and hear guest artists from all over the world.

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra tours across Metro Detroit bringing you musical masterpieces. Don’t miss Vivaldi’s timeless The Four Seasons, and the chance to see and hear guest artists from all over the world.

Featuring portions of Bach’s Musical Offering in the context of musical life at the court of Frederick the Great. Works by JS Bach and Johann Quantz.

Joanna Marsden, baroque flute
Noemy Gagnon-Lafrenais, baroque violin
​​​​​​​Mark Edwards, harpsichord

ALFREDO BERNARDINI, HAUTBOÏSTE INVITÉ

L’ENSEMBLE COMPRENDRA POUR L’OCCASION
4 INSTRUMENTISTES

ŒUVRES DE RORE, PANDOLFI MEALLI, UCCELLINI ET GESUALDO

L’ENSEMBLE COMPRENDRA POUR L’OCCASION
5 INSTRUMENTISTES

Mark Edwards, artistic director of Poiesis, plays Bach’s Goldberg Variations.

Mark Edwards, Assistant Professor of Harpsichord, plays Bach’s Goldberg Variations.

This delightful period instrument ensemble’s program, Age of Indulgence, presents daring, experimental French rococo works—music from the eve of an aesthetic revolution. These works from the 1740s and ’50s mix the humor and wit of early classical composers with characteristically lush French harmonies. Les Délices performs works for oboe, strings, and harpsichord by François-André Philidor, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Michel Blavet, Jean-Pierre Guignon, and others.

This delightful period instrument ensemble’s program, Age of Indulgence, presents daring, experimental French rococo works—music from the eve of an aesthetic revolution. These works from the 1740s and ’50s mix the humor and wit of early classical composers with characteristically lush French harmonies. Les Délices performs works for oboe, strings, and harpsichord by François-André Philidor, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Michel Blavet, Jean-Pierre Guignon, and others.

A variety of airs de cour and airs sérieux et à boire from the second half of the 17th century, as well as chamber music by Hotteterre and Marais, and solo harpsichord music of Chambonnières.

Andréanne Brisson-Paquin, soprano
Joanna Marsden, baroque flute
​​​​​​​Mark Edwards, harpsichord

ŒUVRES CONCERTANTES DE BACH ET DE TELEMANN

L’ENSEMBLE COMPRENDRA POUR L’OCCASION
10 INSTRUMENTISTES

Enjoy an evening of the tastiest Italian Baroque treats from the late 1600s. Featuring Suzie LeBlanc, Matthias Maute, Mark Edwards, and Mark Fewer.

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Kent Nagano and the OSM present a concert devoted to Johann Sebastian Bach – perhaps the most important composer in the history of classical music. Among other gems, the program features the Fourth Brandenburg Concerto, which illustrates Bach’s incomparable genius for counterpoint and fugue.

On fête le retour de la violoncelliste Elinor Frey qui, en compagnie de l’extraordinaire soprano Suzie LeBlanc, propose un concert baroque centré sur un corpus de musique pour violoncelle découvert dans un petit centre d’archives, en Italie. Ce manuscrit renferme des œuvres parmi les toutes premières à avoir été écrites pour le violoncelle comme instrument soliste, dont les sonates brillantes et lyriques du milanais Angelo Maria Fiorè, ainsi que des airs anonymes mariant les lignes expressives du violoncelle à des textes empreints de​​ nostalgie, de tourments et d’amour idéalisé.

Suzie LeBlanc, soprano
Elinor Frey, violoncelle baroque
Michel Angers, luth
Mark Edwards, clavecin

Suzie LeBlanc, soprano
Elinor Frey, violoncelle baroque
Michel Angers, luth
Mark Edwards, clavecin

Hampstead Community Centre presents Elinor Frey and Mark Edwards, "A Cello in Italy"

Baroque cellist Elinor Frey and soprano Suzie Leblanc explore newly discovered pieces, long hidden away in Como, Italy. Brilliant and lyrical, this treasure trove of sonatas, likely written by Milanese cellist Angelo Maria Fiorè, are woven with expressive Italian arias arranged for cello and voice.

Suzie Leblanc, soprano
Elinor Frey, cello
Michel Angers, theorbo
Mark Edwards, harpsichord

Francis Colpron, recorder
Olivier Brault, Baroque violin
Mélisande Corriveau, pardessus de viole and baroque cello
Mark Edwards, positive organ

As early music specialists, members of Les Boréades de Montréal deliver historically faithful concerts, bringing to life performance practices of the era and playing on period instruments. The ensemble will present an exquisite chamber music arrangement of the timeless works of one of the greatest baroque composers of all time, Johann Sebastian Bach. The concert will take place at the ideal venue: the Saint-Benoît-du-Lac Abbey, with its exceptional acoustics and unique contemplative atmosphere.