Early Music Vancouver: Festive Cantatas - Christmas in Gabrieli’s Venice
Bruce Dickey, director and cornetto; Arwen Myers, soprano; Danielle Sampson, soprano; Vicki St. Pierre, alto; Nicholas Burns, alto; Ross Hauck, tenor; Colin Balzer, tenor; Sumner Thompson, baritone; Martin Auclair, bass
Date/Time: Dec 22 2019, 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Vancouver, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | Event calendar6265 Crescent Rd.
Giovanni Gabrieli, who died in 1612, was without a doubt the greatest composer of the Venetian High Renaissance. We celebrate the holidays this year with music by this Venetian master, his uncle Andrea, and their contemporaries. This is music that would have echoed from the mosaic-covered vaults of Saint Mark’s Basilica as well as other Venetian churches. The program consists of motets for from two to fifteen voices, as well as dazzling sonatas and canzonas for cornetti, trombones and strings – festive music worthy of the season but also of the pomp and brilliance of the Venetian State.
Pre-concert talk at 2:15pm.
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