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Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra – J.S. Bach: The Circle of Creation

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra – J.S. Bach: The Circle of Creation

EMV presents Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra in J.S. Bach: The Circle of Creation — a celebration of the genius of Bach and the latest multi-media creation by Alison Mackay, the creator of phenomenally successful Tafelmusik productions seen around the world including The Galileo Project and House of Dreams. J.S. Bach: The Circle of Creation combines text, music, and stunning projected video and images to explore the world of the artisans — papermakers, violin carvers, string spinners, and performers — who helped J.S. Bach realize his musical genius. This all-Bach programme is performed by Tafelmusik musicians entirely from memory.

Friday January 25, 2019 | 7:30PM
Vancouver Playhouse
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New Music for Old Instruments – Thomas Tallis and Missa Charles Darwin

New Music for Old Instruments – Thomas Tallis and Missa Charles Darwin

Praised for a “rich, natural sound that’s larger and more complex than the sum of its parts,” (National Public Radio) New York Polyphony is one of the foremost vocal chamber ensembles active today. The four men, “singers of superb musicianship and vocal allure,” (The New Yorker) give vibrant, modern voice to repertoire ranging from Gregorian chant to cutting-edge compositions. Their dedication to innovative programming, as well as a focus on rare and rediscovered Renaissance and medieval works, has not only earned New York Polyphony two GRAMMY nominations and wide acclaim, but also helped to move early music into the classical mainstream.

Wednesday January 16, 2019 | 7:30pm (Pre-concert talk at 6:45pm)
Christ Church Cathedral
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Festive Cantatas: A Monteverdi Christmas Vespers

Festive Cantatas: A Monteverdi Christmas Vespers

With violins, cornetti, sackbuts, theorbos, keyboards and voices, EMV’s Christmas presentation this season recreates the lavish celebration of Christmas Vespers from the Church of San Marco in 17th-century Venice, with music by the incomparable Claudio Monteverdi!  Featuring works from his 1641 collection of sacred music, the concert will resound with the glorious sounds of a Christmas celebration you won’t soon forget. Gloria in excelsis!

Sunday December 23, 2018 | 3:00PM (Pre-concert talk at 2:15PM)
Chan Shun Concert Hall at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
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Bach Collegium Japan – Bach, Handel, Vivaldi

Bach Collegium Japan – Bach, Handel, Vivaldi

Hailed in BBC Music Magazine as “Kings from the East,” Bach Collegium Japan comprises a baroque orchestra and choir that is widely recognized as one of world’s leading interpreters of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries. Its inspirational Music Director Masaaki Suzuki founded Bach Collegium Japan in 1990 to introduce the Japanese audience to period instrument performances of great works from the baroque period. For this concert the ensemble has invited acclaimed British soprano Joanne Lunn for a programme including J.S Bach’s Orchestral Suite no 2, Vivaldi’s Concerto for two violins in D Minor and Handel’s virtuosic cantata for soprano Silete Venti.

Sunday December 9, 2018 | 3:00PM (Pre-concert talk at 2:15PM)
Chan Shun Concert Hall at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
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Schubert – Winterreise

Schubert – Winterreise

“I cannot choose the time of my journey, I must make my own way in this darkness.” – from Winterreise’s opening song, Good-Night

One of Canada’s most successful young baritones teams up with one of Canada’s most well respected and accomplished pianists for a performance of Franz Schubert’s deeply moving 1827 song cycle “Die Winterreise” (Winter’s Journey) accompanied on an 19th century fortepiano.

Friday November 2, 2018 | 7:30pm (Pre-concert talk 6:45pm)
Christ Church Cathedral
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Purcell – Funeral Music for a Prince and a Queen – Vox Luminis

Purcell – Funeral Music for a Prince and a Queen – Vox Luminis

Vox Luminis is a prize winning Belgian early music vocal ensemble created in 2004 by Artistic Director Lionel Meunier. The ensemble performs over 60 concerts a year, appearing on stages in Belgium, across Europe and around the world. Since its inception, the ensemble has been defined by its unique sound, appealing as much through the personality of each timbre as it does through the color and the uniformity of the voices. The repertoire for this concert includes selections by Heinrich Schutz and Thomas Morley leading up to Henry Purcell’s exquisite and poignant Funeral Sentences and Elegy on the Death of Queen Mary.

Saturday October 13, 2018 | 7:30pm (Pre-concert talk 6:45pm)
Christ Church Cathedral
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Vivaldi – L’Estro Armonico

Vivaldi – L’Estro Armonico

Antonio Vivaldi, master and model of invention, inspired over a half-century of European music with his first published set of concertos for one, two, and four violins: L’Estro Armonico. The Pacific Baroque Orchestra offer selections from this seminal work and from La Stravaganza led by the imaginative and wildy virtuosic Italian violinist Enrico Onofri. Born in Ravenna, Italy, Enrico’s career began when he was still a student when he was named first violin at the Capella Reial de Catalunya under Jordi Savall. He has since regularly collaborated with and led groups such as Il Giardino Armonico, Concentus Musicus Wien, Ensemble Mosaiques and Concerto Italiano. Enrico Onofri is professor of baroque violin and interpretation of baroque music at the Conservatorio Bellini in Palermo.

Saturday September 29, 2018 | 7:30pm (Pre-concert talk 6:45pm)
Christ Church Cathedral
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Bach – Trauer Ode BWV 198

Bach – Trauer Ode BWV 198

J.S. Bach’s great Trauer Ode is a large-scale secular cantata for orchestra and soloists that he composed in 1727 to commemorate the death of Christine Ebehardine, the wife of Augustus, the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. It is unusually richly scored, even for J.S. Bach, and includes not only pairs of flutes and oboes d’amore, but also of violas da gamba and lutes in addition to a full string orchestra. Join the PBO and Gli Angeli for the dramatic conclusion of the Vancouver 2018 Bach Festival.

Friday August 10, 2018| 7:30PM (Pre-concert talk at 6:45PM)
Chan Shun Concert Hall at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
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Francois Couperin – Leçons de Ténèbres

Francois Couperin – Leçons de Ténèbres

“A few years ago I composed three Tenebrae Lessons for Good Friday at the request of the nuns of [Longchamps], where they were sung with success” – Francois Couperin

In celebration of Francois Couperin’s 350th anniversary, this program includes his sumptuous trio sonata L’Impériale, and a performance of one of the masterpieces of French baroque music, his surviving three Leçons des Ténèbres, for two sopranos, viola da gamba and basso continuo.

Thursday August 9, 2018 | 7:30PM (Pre-concert talk at 6:45PM)
Christ Church Cathedral
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Pergolesi – Stabat Mater – EMV Emerging Artists Recital

Pergolesi – Stabat Mater – EMV Emerging Artists Recital

A great opportunity to hear the next generation of early musicians! Members of the Baroque Orchestra Mentorship Programme and recipients of EMV’s Scholarship programme perform chamber music beside their mentors.

Admission is by donation.

Thursday August 9, 2018 | 1:00PM (Pre-concert talk at 12:15PM)
Christ Church Cathedral
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Bach, Beethoven and Brahms with Monica Huggett and Byron Schenkman

Bach, Beethoven and Brahms with Monica Huggett and Byron Schenkman

Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms have been considered the backbone of the Classical canon since the late nineteenth century. Monica Huggett and Byron Schenkman explore some of those composers’ most beloved works, using instruments and playing styles appropriate to the time when that canon was established, including Early Music Vancouver’s magnificent 1870 Broadwood piano. This is a rare opportunity to hear Monica Huggett’s interpretation of Bach’s monumental Chaconne in D Minor — a work which Brahms studied and transcribed — side by side with Beethoven’s “Spring” Sonata, a Bach keyboard toccata, and Brahms’s gorgeous Sonata in G Major, op. 78.

Wednesday August 8, 2018 | 7:30PM (Pre-concert talk at 6:45PM)
Christ Church Cathedral
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Britten – Abraham and Isaac

Britten – Abraham and Isaac

Written in the wake of his opera Billy Budd, Canticle II was composed between late 1951 and early 1952 and is a potent “miniature opera” for alto, tenor and piano created from a 15th-century Chester Miracle Play telling the story of Abraham and Isaac. Written for and dedicated to contralto Kathleen Ferrier (who created the title role in The Rape of Lucretia 1946), her part is now more commonly sung by a counter-tenor. Britten later drew on Canticle II for his War Requiem, in the setting of Wilfred Owen’s bitter retelling of the biblical story

Wednesday August 8, 2018 | 1:00PM
Christ Church Cathedral
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