NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY’S JORDAN HALL • MONDAY, JUNE 9 • 10:30PM
The Excellency of Wine Songs of Love, Inspiration, and Drinking
Aaron Sheehan, tenor Paul O’Dette, lute & theorbo
Lady if you so spite me John Dowland (1563–1626)
In Darkness let me dwell Dowland
Can she excuse my wrongs? Dowland
La mia Barbara Dowland
Si jamais mon âme blessée Pierre Guédron (1564–1619/20)
Aux plaisirs, aux délices bergères Guédron
Quel espoir de guarir Guédron
Qui veut chasser une migraine Gabriel Bataille (ca. 1575–1630)
Enfin la beauté que j’adore Étienne Moulinié (1599–1676)
Quelque merveilleuse chose Moulinié
Go lovely Rose Henry Lawes (1596–1662)
I rise and grieve Lawes
No Reprieve Lawes
The Excellency of Wine Lawes
Loth to Depart Lawes
Inconstancy in Woman Lawes
A Despairing Lover Lawes
Cupid Scorned Lawes
The Boston Early Music Festival extends heartfelt thanks to Bettina A. Norton for her leadership support of tonight’s performance by Aaron Sheehan, tenor & Paul O’Dette, lute
Tonight’s performance by Aaron Sheehan and Paul O’Dette is dedicated to
Edoardo Bellotti
September 17, 1957 – February 27, 2025
Edoardo was a dear friend and cherished colleague; a wonderful performer, scholar, and teacher whose enthusiasm for music and life were infectious. Edoardo knew more about 17th-century Italian music than anyone I ever met, but it was his humanity that stood out above all else. He will be sorely missed, but his legacy will endure.
—Paul O’Dette, BEMF Artistic Co-Director & Professor of Lute and Director of Early Music at the Eastman School of Music
Internationally renowned expert in Renaissance and Baroque keyboard repertory, performance practice, and improvisation, Edoardo Bellotti combined a wide-ranging career as an organist and harpsichordist, scholar, and pedagogue in Europe and the United States. A virtuoso performer and brilliant improviser, he made more than thirty critically acclaimed recordings on historical instruments. He published over twenty musicological articles and essays, and fifteen critical editions of organ music. He edited the first modern edition of two of the most important Baroque treatises on organ playing: Adriano Banchieri’s L’Organo suonarino (Venice, 1605), and Spiridion a Monte Carmelo’s Nova Instructio pro pulsandis organis (Bamberg, 1670). He taught historical keyboard performance and improvisation at the conservatories of Milan, Trento, Udine, Pavia, and Trossingen, and the University of the Arts in Bremen. He served as Associate Professor of Organ at Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, from 2013 to 2018, and Associate Professor of Harpsichord from September 2023.
Edoardo Bellotti died peacefully on February 27, 2025, in his hometown of Pavia, Italy.