2023/24 Season: The Tallis Scholars

The Tallis Scholars PETER PHILLIPS, Director

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The south-east corner of Sicily is blessed with many delights, among them a number of gorgeous 18th- and 19th-century theatres. This festival presents five performances in a selection of these atmospheric buildings, all of which are located amid breathtakingly beautiful Baroque towns and cities. Stay throughout in historic Ortygia, one of the loveliest coastal towns in Italy.

MARTIN RANDALL FESTIVALS bring together world-class musicians for a sequence of private concerts in Europe’s most glorious buildings, many of which are not normally accessible. We take care of all logistics, from flights and hotels to pre-concert talks. Festivals in 2024 also include: Salzburg String Quartet Festival (7–12 May), Mozart Along the Danube (28 July– 4 August) and The Divine Office (30 September– 4 October).

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The Morgan Library& Museum

Exhibitions Seeds of Knowledge: Early Modern Illustrated Herbals Through January 14, 2024

Morgan’s Bibles: Splendor in Scripture Through January 21, 2024

Music at the Morgan

Spirit and Invention: Drawings by Ying Li, piano Giambattista and Domenico Young Concert Artists Tiepolo Wednesday, January 24, 2024 Through January 28, 2024

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Medieval Money, Merchants, and Opera Prima Morality Tormento Seicento: Love and torment in the music of Through March 10, 2024

Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature February 23 through June 9, 2024

Monteverdi, Rossi, Merula, Caccini, and others Boston Early Music Festival Thursday, February 1, 2024 7:30 PM

Les Arts Florissants

Monteverdi and Carissimi Tuesday, February 13, 2024 7:30 PM For information visit themorgan.org/programs St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble

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The concert program is made possible by assistance from Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky, the Joan and Alan Ades-Taub Family Foundation, the Esther Simon Charitable Trust, the Witherspoon Fund of the New York Community Trust, the Theodore H. Barth Foundation, and the following endowed funds: the Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund for Concerts and Lectures; and the Celia Ascher Endowment Fund.

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1390–1400. Single leaf. The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.1056, fol. 1v detail.

WELCOM E Dear Friends, Tonight we are delighted to welcome the incomparable Tallis Scholars directed by Peter Phillips, in their 35th annual appearance with BEMF, including specially filmed virtual concerts in 2020 and 2021. From our very first concert season in 1989, The Tallis Scholars have enchanted Boston audiences with their matchless performances, and their appearances are among the most anticipated events on the BEMF concert calendar. Admired for their impeccable intonation, clarity, and blend, The Tallis Scholars have long epitomized the gold standard of Renaissance singing.

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of their founding, they return to BEMF with a glorious program in homage to the season, While Shepherds Watched, which includes works by Clemens non Papa, Victoria, Philips, and Obrecht, and which will also be made available for two weeks of online viewing starting December 15 at 8pm.

We hope you will join us in the New Year when our 2023–2024 Season continues with five additional concerts, beginning in February with two notable BEMF débuts at First Church in Cambridge. The first of these is Opera Prima, directed by Cristiano Contadin and featuring beloved soprano Amanda Forsythe, in a program of arias and instrumental music from the Italian seicento, which will take place on Saturday, February 3. This will be followed on Friday, February 23, when we present the dynamic French ensemble Le Consort, in a program of instrumental works by Bach, Vivaldi, Corelli, Purcell, Rameau, and others. You can also experience more BEMF magic this month: Saturday, December 9 at 8pm, is the virtual premiere of our Thanksgiving Weekend Chamber Opera Series presentation, which features John Frederick Lampe’s hilarious The Dragon of Wantley, performed with BEMF’s signature flair and panache. In addition, I Gemelli’s stunning November concert of duets, arias, and instrumental works from the time of Monteverdi is currently available in virtual format through December 16.

Thank you for attending tonight’s performance by The Tallis Scholars, whether in person or virtually, and please accept our best wishes for a joyful holiday season, and peace in the New Year.

Kathleen Fay Executive Director

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Boson Early Music Fesival 2023/24 Named Gift Sponsorships

Boston Early Music Festival extends sincere thanks to the following individuals for their leadership support of our 2023/24 Season:

o David M. Kozak and Anne Pistell

Sponsors of the December 2023 performance by The Tallis Scholars and Peter Phillips, Director

David Halstead and Jay Santos

Sponsors of the October 2023 performance by Le Poème Harmonique

Susan L. Robinson

Sponsor of the November 2023 performance by I Gemelli

Andrew Sigel

Sponsor of James Reese, tenor, and Jesse Blumberg, baritone, for the March 2024 performance by the BEMF Vocal & Chamber Ensembles

Diane and John Paul Britton

Sponsors of Amanda Forsythe, soprano, for her February 2024 performance with Opera Prima

Donald E. Vaughan and Lee S. Ridgway

Sponsors of Zachary Wilder, tenor, for his November 2023 performance with I Gemelli

o Not only do Named Gifts help provide the crucial financial support required to present a full season of extraordinary performances, but they are doubly meaningful in that they send a message of thanks to your most beloved artist, musicians, and directors—that their work means something to you.

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PRESENTS

The Tallis Scholars directed by Peter Phillips

While Shepherds Watched Pastores quidnam vidistis?

Missa Pastores quidnam vidistis Kyrie Gloria Quem vidistis pastores?

Jacobus Clemens non Papa (ca. 1510–1555/56) Clemens non Papa

Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548–1611)

Quaeramus cum pastoribus

Pedro de Cristo (ca. 1550–1618)

Quaeramus cum pastoribus

Giovanni Croce (ca. 1557–1609)

m INTERMISSION n Missa Pastores quidnam vidistis Credo

Clemens non Papa

Salve regina

Jacob Obrecht (1457/58–1505)

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Peter Philips (1560/61–1628)

Missa Pastores quidnam vidistis Sanctus Benedictus Agnus Dei

Clemens non Papa

The Boston Early Music Festival thanks DAVID M. KOZAK and ANNE PISTELL for their leadership support of tonight’s performance

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LIVE CONCERT Friday, December 8, 2023 at 8pm St. Paul Church in Harvard Square Bow and Arrow Streets, Cambridge, Massachusetts VIRTUAL CONCERT Friday, December 15, 2023 – Friday, December 29, 2023 BEMF.org

T HE TA L L I S SC HO L A R S directed by Peter Phillips

Amy Haworth, soprano Daisy Walford, soprano Victoria Meteyard, soprano Lucinda Cox, soprano Caroline Trevor, alto Rosie Parker, alto Simon Wall, tenor Tom Castle, tenor Tim Scott Whiteley, bass Rob Macdonald, bass

Program subject to change.

Ball Square Films & Kathy Wittman, Video Production Antonio Oliart Ros, Recording Engineer

The Tallis Scholars appear by arrangement with Alliance Artist Management.

The Tallis Scholars record for Gimell Records.

Please visit their website at www.gimell.com For more information, please visit www.thetallisscholars.co.uk

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2023 Chamber Opera Series Named Gift Sponsorships Boston Early Music Festival extends sincere thanks to the following individuals and institutions for their leadership support of the November 2023 performances of The Dragon of Wantley:

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Glenn A. KnicKrehm and Constellation Charitable Foundation Principal Production Sponsors

Lorna E. Oleck

Sponsor of Robert Mealy, Concertmaster, Melinda Sullivan, Choreographer, and Teresa Wakim, Margery

Andrew Sigel

Sponsor of Hannah De Priest, Mauxalinda, Aaron Sheehan, Moore, and John Taylor Ward, The Dragon

Bernice K. Chen

Sponsor of Gilbert Blin, Stage Director

Tony Elitcher and Andrea Taras

Sponsors of Kathleen Fay, Executive Producer

James A. Glazier

Sponsor of Stephen Stubbs, Musical Co-Director

David Halstead and Jay Santos

Sponsors of Paul O’Dette, Musical Co-Director

George L. Hardman

Sponsor of Gonzalo X. Ruiz, oboe

Harriet Lindblom

Sponsor of Michael Sponseller, harpsichord

Harold I. Pratt

Sponsor of Sarah Darling, viola

Donald E. Vaughan and Lee S. Ridgway Sponsors of Douglas Williams, Gubbins

Kenneth C. Ritchie and Paul T. Schmidt Sponsors of the pre-opera talks by Ellen T. Harris

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PR O GRA M NOT E S

THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS (1539) Why are the shepherds the first to be told about the birth of the Messiah? The vaunted Magi from the East have to make do with following a new star in the heavens, requiring advanced astrological calculations. But the lowly shepherds get an unequivocal message, delivered first by a terrifying angel and then by an awesome assembly of heavenly beings: “Unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.”

It makes poetic sense that shepherds should be among the earliest witnesses: they know their own, and can recognize that the infant born in Bethlehem is one of them, the Good Shepherd.

This dramatic passage in Luke’s Gospel understandably lends itself to artistic interpretations; musical retellings proliferated, especially in the Renaissance. In Pastores quidnam vidistis?, Clemens sets a dialogue to music, consisting of the imagined interrogation of the amazed shepherds, which also serves 2 023/ 20 2 4 SEASON

Bronzino (1503–1572)

as the Responsory for Matins on Christmas morning: “Whom did you see?” Its smoothly imitative, elegant polyphony is typical of the composer, who, unlike several of his Flemish contemporaries, proved resistant to the allure of other continental styles such as those developing in Italy.

Clemens (whose flippant nickname “non Papa” was likely born more out of jest than the need to distinguish him from the Pope) spent most of his life working in and around modern-day Belgium and the Netherlands. As was common in the period, he would mine his motets for musical material to form the basis of a mass setting, as in the Missa Pastores quidnam vidistis. This is most audible in the opening of the Kyrie, Gloria, and Sanctus of the mass, which replicate the motet’s opening of a rising fifth. Like the motet, the mass is mostly for five voice-parts, rising to six in the Agnus Dei with the addition of a further bass (another shepherd, come to worship the Lamb 13

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of God?). This has the effect of thickening the sonority for the culmination of the cycle.

In general, the music expresses the text only in the most general, abstract fashion, adopting an expansive imitative polyphony in the less wordy movements, and a more direct style for the lengthier texts of the Gloria and Credo. Only on occasion does the composer permit himself to illustrate the meaning of the words in his music; listen, for example, to the “descendit de caelis” passage of the Credo, in which some parts descend by step while others trip downward in sequence.

Victoria’s Quem vidistis pastores? is a variation on the same text as Clemens’s motet.

The Spanish composer takes the essence of the dialogue into the textural structure of his motet. He begins by dividing his six voices into the three upper and three lower, before allowing them to recombine in other permutations. Both halves of the motet share a refrain in which the shepherds, unable to contain their joy, break into joyous triple meter and an elaborate, melismatic alleluia.

The text of Quaeramus cum pastoribus also riffs on an imagined dialogue with the shepherds, opening with an invitation to seek, with them, the Word incarnate. It also includes “Noe” refrains, which were a popular feature of Christmas music in this period (the word is interchangeable with “noël”). Pedro de Cristo sets the first part only, for four voices. The Portuguese composer’s style is distinctive for the narrow range of its vocal compass; “bunched” combinations of voices, with the total range often, as here, not exceeding two octaves.

Meanwhile, Italy’s Giovanni Croce sets the full text for opulent double choir. The piece was probably designed for the very place which lent the polychoral style its popularity, San Marco in Venice, where Croce preceded Monteverdi as maestro di cappella. He sets the text in such open-hearted fashion that even the last line (“his songs are tears”) cannot dim the enthusiasm of a final round of “noe.”

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to the Blessed Virgin Mary in various seasons of the Church year. In the fifteenth century, it was also the central item in the Salve service, a paraliturgical devotion which flourished thanks to the medieval cult of Mary. If we sometimes find the sheer amount of Marian music from this period surprising, it is helpful to remember that Mary was considered to have the ear of Christ in heaven—that is, she could intercede with him to reduce one’s time spent in purgatory after death. Lavish musical praise was one way to move her to this act of pity.

JACOB OBRECHT Comparing the Flemish Jacob Obrecht’s setting with that of Englishman Peter Philips, written over a century later, allows us to observe the change of musical fashions during that time.

When Obrecht wrote his version, the use of as many as six different musical parts was quite rare. His setting alternates unadorned plainchant with polyphonic sections which adapt the chant melody and use it as the basis for imitation between the parts.

By the time of Peter Philips, writing in many parts was much more common, especially when disposed after the fashionable Venetian manner of two opposing four-voice choirs, which could echo and rebound off each other. Philips, an Englishman, is perhaps better identified with continental styles of composition, since, as a Catholic exile from Elizabethan England, he spent much of his career abroad. In his Salve regina, he uses the chant only for the incipit, and eschews imitation in favor of punchy utterances from each choir. The rapid-fire “Ad te” statements are closer to the world of secular madrigals than sacred music. This declamatory style then contrasts with the rapturous languor of the opening of the third section: “O clemens, O pia.” n —© James M. Potter, 2023 15

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A RTIS T PROFIL E S

The Tallis Scholars were founded in 1973 by their director, Peter Phillips. Through their recordings and concert performances, they have established themselves as the leading exponents of Renaissance sacred music throughout the world. Peter Phillips has worked with the ensemble to create, through good tuning and blend, the purity and clarity of sound which he feels best serves the Renaissance repertoire, allowing every detail of the musical lines to be heard. It is the resulting beauty of sound for which The Tallis Scholars have become so widely renowned.

The Tallis Scholars perform in both sacred and secular venues, giving around 80 concerts each year. In 2013, the group celebrated their 40th anniversary with a world tour, performing 99 events in 80 venues in 16 countries. In 2020, Gimell Records celebrated 40 years of recording the group by releasing a remastered version of the 1980 recording of Allegri’s Miserere. As they celebrate their 50th birthday, the desire to hear this group in all corners of the globe is as strong as ever. They have now performed well over 2,500 concerts.

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Paris, Dresden, Ravenna, and Helsinki, a number of appearances in London, as well as their usual touring schedule in Europe and the UK. In a monumental project to mark Josquin des Prez’s 500th anniversary, The Tallis Scholars sang all eighteen of the composer’s masses over the course of four days at the Boulez Saal in Berlin in July 2022, only to repeat this feat in Utrecht in summer 2023.

Recordings by The Tallis Scholars have attracted many awards throughout the world.

In 1987, their recording of Josquin’s Missa La sol fa re mi and Missa Pange lingua received Gramophone magazine’s Record of the Year award, the first recording of early music ever to win this coveted award. In 1989 the French magazine Diapason gave two of its Diapason d’Or de l’Année awards for the recordings of a mass and motets by Lassus and for Josquin’s two masses based on the chanson L’Homme armé. Their recording of Palestrina’s Missa Assumpta est Maria and Missa Sicut lilium was awarded Gramophone’s Early Music Award in 1991; they received the 1994 Early Music Award for their recording of music by Cipriano de Rore, and the same distinction again in 2005 for their disc of music by John Browne. The Tallis Scholars were nominated 17

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for Grammy Awards in 2001, 2009, and 2010. In November 2012, their recording of Josquin’s Missa De beata virgine and Missa Ave maris stella received a Diapason d’Or de l’Année and in their 40th anniversary year they were welcomed into the Gramophone Hall of Fame by public vote. In a departure for the group, in Spring 2015 The Tallis Scholars released a disc of music by Arvo Pärt called Tintinnabuli, which received great praise across the board.

A 2020 release including Missa Hercules Dux Ferrarie was the last of nine albums in The Tallis Scholars’ project to record and release all of Josquin masses before the 500th anniversary of the composer’s death. It was the winner of the BBC Music Magazine’s much-coveted Recording of the Year Award in 2021 and the 2021 Gramophone Early Music Award. Their latest Gimell release, in October 2023, is of music by John Sheppard. n

Peter Phillips has dedicated his career to the research and performance of Renaissance polyphony, and to the perfecting of choral sound. He founded The Tallis Scholars in 1973, with whom he has now appeared in over 2,500 concerts worldwide and made over 60 discs in association with Gimell Records. As a result of this commitment Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars have done more than any other group to establish the sacred vocal music of the Renaissance as one of the great repertoires of Western classical music.

In addition to conducting, Peter Phillips is well known as a writer. For thirty-three years he contributed a regular music column to The Spectator. In 1995, he became the publisher of The Musical Times, the oldest continuously published music journal in the world. His first book, English Sacred Music 1549–1649, was published by Gimell in 1991, while his second, What We Really Do, appeared in 2003, and again in 2013. During 2018, BBC Radio 3 broadcast his view of Renaissance polyphony in a series of six hour-long programs entitled The Glory of Polyphony.

Peter Phillips also conducts other specialist ensembles. He is currently working with the BBC Singers (London), the Netherlands Chamber Choir (Utrecht), the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir (Tallinn), The Danish Radio Choir (Copenhagen), and El Leon de Oro (Oviedo). He is Patron of the Chapel Choir of Merton College, Oxford.

In 2005, Peter Phillips was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture. In 2008, Peter helped to found the chapel choir of Merton College Oxford, where he is a Bodley Fellow, and in 2021 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. n

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TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS Pastores quidnam vidistis? — Clemens non Papa Pastores, quidnam vidistis?

Annunciate nobis in terris quis apparuit.

Natum vidimus, et choros angelorum collaudantes Dominum et dicentes: Gloria in altissimus Deo, et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.

Shepherds, what have you seen?

Tell us, who has appeared on earth.

We have seen the new-born Son and choirs of angels praising the Lord together, and saying: Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men of good will.

Missa Pastores quidnam vidistis — Clemens non Papa Kyrie eleison.

Christe eleison.

Kyrie eleison.

Lord, have mercy.

Christ, have mercy.

Lord, have mercy.

Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.

Laudamus te. Benedicimus te.

Adoramus te. Glorificamus te.

Gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam, Domine Deus, Rex caelestis, Deus Pater omnipotens.

Glory be to God on high, and in earth peace, goodwill toward men.

We praise thee. We bless thee.

We worship thee. We glorify thee.

We give thanks to thee for thy great glory, O Lord God, heavenly king, God the Father almighty.

Domine Fili unigenite, Jesu Christe; Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius Patris, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis; qui tollis peccata mundi, suscipe deprecationem nostram; qui sedes ad dexteram Patris, miserere nobis.

O Lord the only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ; O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us; that takes away the sins of the world, receive our prayer; that sits at the right hand of God the Father, have mercy upon us.

Quoniam tu solus Sanctus, tu solus Dominus, tu solus altissimus, Jesu Christe.

Cum Sancto Spiritu, in gloria Dei Patris.

Amen.

For thou only art holy; thou only art the Lord; thou only, O Christ, with the Holy Ghost, art Most High in the glory of God the Father.

Amen.

Quem vidistis pastores? — Victoria Quem vidistis, pastores?

Dicite, annunciate nobis, quis apparuit?

Natum vidimus et choros angelorum collaudantes Dominum. Alleluia.

Dicite, quidnam vidistis?

Et annunciate nobis Christi nativitatem.

Natum vidimus et choros angelorum collaudantes Dominum. Alleluia.

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Whom have you seen, shepherds?

Speak, tell us who has appeared.

The new-born have we seen and a chorus of angels praising God. Alleluia.

Speak, what have you seen?

Tell us of the birth of Christ.

The new-born have we seen and a chorus of angels praising God. Alleluia.

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Quaeramus cum pastoribus — Pedro de Cristo Let us seek with the shepherds the Word incarnate; let us sing with all mankind for the King of the ages. Noel.

Whom do you see in the stable?

Jesus, born of the Virgin.

What do you hear in the manger?

Angels with a song and shepherds saying: Alleluia.

Quaeramus cum pastoribus Verbum incarnatum; cantemus cum hominibus regi saeculorum. Noel.

Quem vides in stabulo?

Jesum natum de Virgine.

Quid audis in praesepio?

Angelos cum carmine et pastores dicentes: Alleluia.

Quaeramus cum pastoribus — Croce Quaeramus cum pastoribus Verbum incarnatum; cantemus cum hominibus regi saeculorum. Noe. Quid tu vides in stabulo?

Jesum natum de Virgine.

Quid audis in praesepio?

Angelos cum carmine et pastores dicentes: Noe.

Let us seek with the shepherds the Word incarnate; let us sing with all mankind for the King of the ages. Noel.

What do you see in the stable?

Jesus, born of the Virgin.

What do you hear in the manger?

Angels with a song and shepherds saying: Noel.

Ubi pascas, ubi cubes?

Dic, si ploras, aut si redes: Te rogamus, Rex Christe. Noe. Cibus est lac virgineum, lectus durum praesepium, carmina sunt lacrimae. Noe.

Where do you eat, where do you lie?

Say, whether you weep or laugh: we ask you, Christ the King. Noel.

My food is milk of the Virgin, my bed a hard manger, my songs are tears. Noel.

m INTERMISSION n Missa Pastores quidnam vidistis — Clemens non Papa Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipotentem, I believe in one God, the Father almighty, factorem caeli et terrae, Maker of heaven and earth, visibilium omnium et invisibilium. and of all things visible and invisible.

Et in unum Dominum Jesum Christum, And in one Lord, Jesus Christ, Filium Dei unigenitum, the only-begotten Son of God, et ex Patre natum ante omnia saecula. begotten of his Father before all worlds.

Deum de Deo; Lumen de Lumine; God of God; Light of Light; Deum verum de Deo vero; very God of very God; genitum, non factum; begotten, not made: consubstantialem Patri; being of one substance with the Father; per quem omnia facta sunt. by whom all things were made.

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Qui propter nos homines, et propter nostram salutem descendit de caelis, et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto, ex Maria Virgine, et homo factus est.

Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio Pilato; passus et sepultus est.

Who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man.

And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried.

Et resurrexit tertia die secundum Scripturas; et ascendit in caelum, sedet ad dexteram Patris; et iterum venturus est cum gloria judicare vivos et mortuos; cuius regni non erit finis.

And the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father; and he shall come again with glory to judge both the living and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.

Et in Spiritum Sanctum, Dominum et vivificantem, qui ex Patre Filioque procedit; qui cum Patre et Filio simul adoratur et conglorificatur; qui locutus est per prophetas;

And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord, and giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified, who spoke by the prophets.

Et unam sanctam catholicam et apostolicam Ecclesiam.

Confiteor unum baptisma in remissionem peccatorum.

Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum, et vitam venturi saeculi. Amen.

And I believe in one holy, catholic and apostolic Church.

I acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.

And I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

Salve regina — Obrecht and Philips Salve Regina, mater misericordiae; Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve.

Ad te clamamus, exsules filii Hevae.

Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes in hac lacrimarum valle.

Eia ergo, advocata nostra, illos tuos misericordes oculos ad nos converte.

Et Jesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui, nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.

O clemens, O pia, O dulcis, Virgo Maria.

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Hail Queen, mother of mercy; our joy and our hope, hail.

To you we cry, the exiled children of Eve. To you we sigh, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears.

Come then, our advocate, turn your pitying eyes towards us, and when our exile is over, show us Jesus, the blessed fruit of your womb.

O merciful, O holy, O sweet, Virgin Mary.

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Missa Pastores quidnam vidistis — Clemens non Papa Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth.

Pleni sunt caeli et terra gloria tua.

Hosanna in excelsis.

Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of hosts.

Heaven and earth are full of thy glory.

Hosanna in the highest.

Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini.

Hosanna in excelsis.

Blessed is he that comes in name of the Lord.

Hosanna in the highest.

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.

O Lamb of God, that takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.

O Lamb of God, that takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.

O Lamb of God, that takes away the sins of the world, grant us thy peace.

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The Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) is universally recognized as a leader in the field of early music. Since its founding in 1980 by leading practitioners of historical performance in the United States and abroad, BEMF has promoted early music through a variety of diverse programs and activities, including an annual concert series that brings early music’s brightest stars to the Boston and New York concert stages, and the biennial weeklong Festival and Exhibition, recognized as “the world’s leading festival of early music” (The Times, London).

Through its programs BEMF has earned its place as North America’s premier presenting organization for music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods and has secured Boston’s reputation as “America’s early music capital” (Boston Globe).

I N TER NATI ONA L BA RO QU E O PE RA One of BEMF’s main goals is to unearth and present lesser-known Baroque operas performed by the world’s leading musicians armed with the latest information on period singing, orchestral performance, scenic design, costuming, dance, and staging. BEMF operas reproduce the Baroque’s stunning palette of sound by bringing together today’s leading operatic superstars and a wealth of instrumental talent from across the globe to one stage for historic presentations, all zestfully led from the pit by the BEMF Artistic Directors Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, and creatively reimagined for the stage by BEMF Opera Director Gilbert Blin.

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by Louise-Geneviève Gillot de Saintonge, which saw the return of the Boston Early Music Festival Dance Company, a troupe of dancers under the guidance of BEMF Dance Director Melinda Sullivan. The twenty-third Festival, in June 2025, will have as its centerpiece Reinhard Keiser’s 1705 opera Octavia.

BEMF introduced its Chamber Opera Series during its annual concert season in November 2008, with a performance of John Blow’s Venus and Adonis and MarcAntoine Charpentier’s Actéon. The series focuses on the wealth of chamber operas composed during the Baroque period, while providing an increasing number of local 27

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opera aficionados the opportunity to attend one of BEMF’s superb offerings. Subsequent annual productions include George Frideric Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, combined performances of Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs, Monteverdi’s Orfeo, a double bill of Pergolesi’s La serva padrona and Livietta e Tracollo, a production titled “Versailles” featuring Les Plaisirs de Versailles by Charpentier, Les Fontaines de Versailles by Michel-Richard de Lalande, and divertissements from Atys by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Francesca Caccini’s Alcina, the first opera written by a woman, a combination of Telemann’s Pimpinone and Ino, joint performances of Lully’s Idylle sur la Paix and Charpentier’s La Fête de Rueil, and most recently John Frederick Lampe’s The Dragon of Wantley. Acis and Galatea was revived and presented on a four-city North American Tour in early 2011, which included a performance at the American Handel Festival DANIELLE REUTTER-HARRAH IN BEMF’S 2021 PRODUCTION OF TELEMANN’S PIMPINONE PHOTO: KATHY WITTMAN

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in Seattle, and in 2014, BEMF’s second North American Tour featured the Charpentier double bill from 2011.

BEMF has a well-established and highly successful project to record some of its groundbreaking work in the field of Baroque opera. The first three recordings in this series were all nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording, in 2005, 2007, and 2008: the 2003 Festival centerpiece Ariadne, by Johann Georg Conradi; Lully’s Thésée; and the 2007 Festival opera, Lully’s Psyché, which was hailed by BBC Music Magazine as “superbly realized…magnificent.” In addition, the BEMF recordings of Lully’s Thésée and Psyché received Gramophone Award Nominations in the Baroque Vocal category in 2008 and 2009, respectively. BEMF’s next three recordings on the German CPO label were drawn from its Chamber Opera Series: Charpentier’s Actéon, Blow’s Venus and Adonis, and a release of Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs, which won the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording and the 2015 Echo Klassik Opera Recording of the Year (17th/18th Century Opera). Agostino Steffani’s Niobe, Regina di Tebe, featuring Philippe Jaroussky and Karina Gauvin, which was released in January 2015 on the Erato/Warner Classics label in conjunction with a seven-city, four-country European concert tour of the opera, has been nominated for a Grammy Award, was named Gramophone’s Recording of the Month for March 2015, is the 2015 Echo Klassik World Premiere Recording of the Year, and has received a 2015 Diapason d’Or de l’Année and B OS T ON E AR LY M US I C F E ST I VAL

a 2015 Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik.

Handel’s Acis and Galatea was released in November 2015. In 2017, while maintaining the focus on Baroque opera, BEMF expanded the recording project to include other select Baroque vocal works: a new Steffani disc, Duets of Love and Passion, was released in September 2017 in conjunction with a sixcity North American tour, and a recording of Johann Sebastiani’s St. Matthew Passion was released in March 2018. Four Baroque opera releases followed in 2019 and 2020: a disc of Charpentier’s chamber operas Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Les Arts Florissants was released at the June 2019 Festival, and has been nominated for a Grammy Award; the 2013 Festival opera, Handel’s Almira, was released in late 2019, and received a Diapason d’Or. Lalande’s chamber opera Les Fontaines de Versailles was featured on a September 2020 release of the composer’s works; Christoph Graupner’s opera Antiochus und Stratonica was released in December 2020. BEMF’s newest recording, of Desmarest’s Circé, the 2023 Festival opera, was released concurrently with the opera’s North American premiere.

C E LEB R ATE D C ON CE RT S

Some of the most thrilling musical moments at the biennial Festival occur during one of the dozen or more concerts presented around the clock, which always include the acclaimed Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra led

by Orchestra Director Robert Mealy, and which often feature unique, once-in-a-lifetime collaborations and programs by the spectacular array of talent assembled for the Festival

week’s events. In 1989, BEMF established an annual concert series bringing early music’s leading soloists and ensembles to the Boston concert stage to meet the growing demand for regular world-class performances of early music’s beloved classics and newly discovered works. BEMF then expanded its concert series in 2006, when it extended its performances to New York City’s Gilder Lehrman Hall at the Morgan Library & Museum, providing “a shot in the arm for New York’s relatively modest early-music scene” (New York Times).

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The nerve center of the biennial Festival, the Exhibition is the largest event of its kind in the United States, showcasing nearly one hundred early instrument makers, music publishers, service organizations, schools and universities, and associated colleagues.

In 2013, Mozart’s own violin and viola were displayed at the Exhibition, in their first-ever visit to the United States. Every other June, hundreds of professional musicians, students, and enthusiasts come from around the world to purchase instruments, restock their libraries, learn about recent musicological developments, and renew old friendships. For four days, they visit the Exhibition booths to browse, discover, and purchase, and attend the dozens of symposia, masterclasses, and demonstration recitals, all of which encourage a deeper appreciation of early music, and strengthen relationships between musicians, participants, and audiences. n

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