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SFEMS’ 39th season
For the past four decades, SFEMS
has shown the Bay Area the best
of what early music can be.
Anonymous 4, Benjamin Bagby,
Frans Brüggen, Concerto Palatino,
Fretwork, Laurette Goldberg, Hilliard
Ensemble, John Holloway, Emma
Kirkby & Anthony Rooley, Wieland
Kuijken, Gustav Leonhardt, PAN,
Joshua Rifkin, Jordi Savall, and Max
Van Egmond are among hundreds of
great artists we have presented, many
The tradition continues this season—
masters of the art from around the US
and abroad bring to life music of the
masters, from Dufay to Monteverdi to
Bach.
“[Quicksilver] surpassingly communicative and soulful”
—Boston Musical Intelligencer
Berkeley, CA 94709
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EARLY MUSIC SOCIETY
THE SAN FRANCISCO
“[The SFEMS series] is the best deal in town!”
in regional or national debuts.
“[Stile Antico] An ensemble of
breathtaking freshness, vitality
and balance”
—New York Times
“The Baltimore Consort is perhaps
the best balancing act of period
authenticity, instrumental precision and sheer fun in the early
music community today.”
—Times-Dispatch, Richmond VA
— Masters of Early Music —
Fridays in Palo Alto · Saturdays in Berkeley · Sundays in San Francisco
“[Ensemble Caprice] has established itself as an immensely
thoughtful and progressive force
on the musical scene.”
—New York Times
“[Infusion Baroque] shaped the music from the very first note.…
They were dynamic and alive. They had no fear.”
—Early Music America Magazine
Infusion Baroque
Alexa Raine-Wright, traverso & recorder; Sallynee Amawat, violin; Camille Paquette-Roy,
cello; Rona Nadler, harpsichord
“[Archetti gave] a performance of dazzling clarity…Bach at his best.”
—San Francisco Examiner Online
Archetti
Carla Moore & John Dornenburg, Co-directors
Carla Moore, Jolie Einem, David Wilson,
and Alicia Yang, violin; Kati Kyme, viola;
Adaiha MacAdam-Somer, cello; John Dornenburg, violone; Davitt Moroney, harpsichord;
with Debra Nagy, oboe
Bach & Handel:
Concerti for Oboe and Strings
One of America’s greatest baroque oboists joins
northern California’s premier baroque concerto
ensemble to celebrate the most revered composers of the early 18th century. The lyricism
of two Handel concerti grossi will be paired
with the power and verve of three Bach solo
concerti: for harpsichord, for 2 violins, and for
oboe and violin.
October 23–25, 2015
The Baltimore Consort
Mary Anne Ballard, viols; Mark Cudek, cittern
& bass viol; Larry Lipkis, bass viol, recorder,
krummhorn & gemshorn; Ronn McFarlane,
lute; Mindy Rosenfeld, flutes, fifes, bagpipes &
krummhorn; Danielle Svonavec, soprano
The Food of Love: Songs, Dances
and Fancies for Shakespeare
following Leipzig liturgy as Bach himself wrote
out on his manuscript score of Cantata 62. The
program will include congregational chorales,
which the audience will be encouraged to sing.
December 11–13, 2015
Quicksilver
Robert Mealy & Julie Andrijeski, Co-directors
Robert Mealy and Julie Andrijeski, violin; Greg
Ingles, trombone; Dominic Teresi, dulcian; David
Morris, viola da gamba; Avi Stein, harpsichord &
organ; Charles Weaver, theorbo & baroque guitar
The (Very) First Viennese School
Music in Vienna had its first flourishing long
before Mozart. The splendid 17th-century court
of the Holy Roman Emperors from Matthias to
Leopold I were great music lovers who brought
together composers and virtuosi to create a remarkable musical culture. The brilliant music
composed for their varied court festivities offered
a rich feast of sumptuous sonatas and ingenious
ballets. Quicksilver’s program will feature works
of Valentini, Bertali, Buonamente, Pandolfi,
Kerll, Legrenzi, Fux, Muffat and Schmelzer.
January 29–31, 2016
The “rambunctious sextet” performs greatest
hits from the Bard’s songbook, including “It
Was a Lover and his Lass,” “Where the Bee
Sucks,” “Full Fathom Five,” and “The Willow
Song,” plus sparkling arrangements of dances
and consort music related to the plays.
November 20–22, 2015
Magnificat Warren Stewart, Director
J.S. Bach, Mass for Advent
For over 20 years, Magnificat has recreated historical liturgies, performing great works from
Monteverdi’s Vespers to Charpentier’s Midnight
Mass in their intended musical context. This
year they recreate a Lutheran Mass for Advent,
Salsa Baroque: Music of Latin
America and Spain
During the 16th and 17th centuries, the musical dialogue between the Old and New Worlds
produced extraordinary results. This fascinating
blend of European polyphony and Latin American traditional music created a unique style that
is exemplified by the villancicos of the Bolivian
composer Juan de Araujo and his contemporaries. Also included on the program are sonatas
by Locatelli and Falconieri, two European composers influenced by this Latin American style.
February 19–21, 2016
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Rebels and Rivalries
Did you know that J.S. Bach went to jail? Or
that Tarquinio Merula was dismissed from
his job for indecent behavior? Winners of the
Grand Prize and Audience Prize at the 2014
Early Music America Baroque Performance
Competition, Infusion Baroque explores the
works of 17th- and 18th-century composers
and their tangled, contrary, and often scandalous personal lives. Featured will be music by
Leclair, Geminiani, Merula, Guignon, Telemann, and the Bach family.
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Infusion Baroque
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April 10, 2016
SPECIAL Stile Antico Concert
4 pm April 10, First Congregational Church, Berkeley (FCC), Dana at Durant
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Hailed as one of early music’s most original
and exciting new vocal ensembles, Stile Antico
traces the blurred boundary between sacred
and secular, surveying 300 years of superb music, from ribald folksongs worked into prayerful polyphony by Dufay and Taverner to risqué
chansons transformed by Lassus, Morales and
Victoria into devout Masses and Magnificats
to Monteverdi’s most erotic madrigals fitted
with new sacred texts. They say the Devil has
all the best tunes, and it’s hard to disagree on
hearing this program.
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March 11–13, 2016
Ensemble Caprice
Matthias Maute and Sophie Larivière, recorder
& traverso; David Jacques, baroque guitar; Susie
Napper, cello; Ziya Tabassian, percussion
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