Boston Early Music Festival

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For more than three decades, the Boston Early Music Festival has been proud to present the best in Early Music from the world’s most exciting and accomplished artists and ensembles in superb locations throughout Boston. Each BEMF Concert Season promises an opportunity to experience the most daring, engaging, and extraordinary musicians performing today, and the 2013–2014 Season will be no exception. Don’t miss this first opportunity to reserve your seats today!

Dominique Labelle	Dominique Labelle, soprano Friday, October 18, 2013, 8pm First Church in Cambridge, Congregational Music of Luigi Boccherini, including his sublime Stabat Mater “One of the most subtly moving evenings of music I've heard in some time.” —The Hub Review

	Saturday, November 9, 2013, 8pm St. Paul Church, Cambridge Discovering Renaissance Treasure: Morales, Guerrero, Ribera, and Victoria “A crack choir...breathtakingly beautiful.” —BBC Radio 3

	Glorious highlights from BEMF’s first five Chamber Operas Sunday, December 1, 2013, 3pm New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Boston Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors Gilbert Blin, Stage Director “Every sound…glowed with vibrant life.” —The Boston Phoenix

	Peter Phillips, director Saturday, December 14, 2013, 8pm St. Paul Church, Cambridge Renaissance Music for the Holiday Season: Victoria, Verdelot, Bruckner, and Guerrero “Flawless and marvelously transparent singing.” —Gramophone

	Eric Hoeprich, basset clarinet Saturday, January 18, 2014, 8pm First Church in Cambridge, Congregational Music of Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart “Astonishing brilliance, gracefulness and intelligence.” —Goldberg Magazine

	Benjamin Bagby, director Saturday, February 1, 2014, 8pm St. Paul Church, Cambridge Mystical Voice of Medieval Germany: Masterpieces of the Benedictine visionary and composer Hildegard von Bingen “[Sequentia] performs with both scholarly insight and dramatic verve.” —The New Yorker


	Friday, February 21, 2014, 8pm NEC’s Jordan Hall, Boston Music of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart “The finest living exponent of the fortepiano.” —The Herald, UK

	Friday, March 7, 2014, 8pm St. Paul Church, Cambridge The Battle for Florence: Power versus piety – Music for the Medici and Savonarola “Stile Antico represents the future of serious, unhyped, technically polished, stylistically attuned, and musically affecting choral performance.” —Classics Today

James Taylor	Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, directors James Taylor, The Evangelist Friday, April 18, 2014, 8pm NEC’s Jordan Hall, Boston Johann Sebastiani’s exquisite, early setting of the St. Matthew Passion (1672) “The playing of the chamber ensemble had zest and polish in equal measure.” —The Boston Globe