Weekend Concert Series: Fretwork
When:
Sunday, Oct 20, 2019 1:30p -
3:00p
Sunday, Oct 20, 2019 1:30p -
3:00p
Where:
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
25 Evans Way
Boston, MA 02115
Admission:
$15-36
Categories:
Art, Innovation, Lectures & Conferences, Meetup, Music, Performing Arts, Social Good
Event website:
https://gardnermuseum.org/calendar/event/weekend-concert-series-20191020
PERFORMERS
Iestyn Davies, counter-tenor
Asako Morikawa, Sam Stadlen, Emily Ashton, Jo Levine, and Richard Boothby, viols
PROGRAM
William Byrd, Fantasia à 5, “Two parts in one” (ante 1611); Ye Sacred Muses (c. 1585); In Nomine à 5 (c. 1570)
Orlando Gibbons, Fantasia of four parts (c. 1620)
Johann Christoph Bach, Lamento (ante 1700)
Carlo Gesualdo, Beltà poi che t’assenti (1611); Dolcissima mia vita (1611); Sparge la morte (1596)
George Frideric Handel, Già l’ebro mio ciglio (1733); Passacaille (c. 1720); Piangerò (1724)
Ralph Vaughan Williams, The Sky Above the Roof (1908); Silent Noon (1903)
Michael Nyman, If; Why (1995)
The extraordinary viola da gamba consort Fretwork makes their Gardner Museum debut with a program that spans from Byrd and Gibbons in Elizabethan England to present-day works by Michael Nyman. They are joined by the splendid counter-tenor Iestyn Davies, who will sing, among other works, “Ye Sacred Muses,” Byrd’s moving lament on the death of his mentor Thomas Tallis, which ends with his cri de coeur, “Tallis is dead, and music dies.”
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