2005 FESTIVAL
Operatic Centerpiece
Music and libretto by Johann Mattheson (1681–1764)
Festival Concerts
Camerata Trajectina
The Perfect and Well-Equipped Ship: Dutch Shanties
from the time of Czar Peter the Great
Jérôme Hantaï and Kaori Uemura, viola da gamba
Duets for Bass Viol from England and Northern Germany
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
directed by Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs
with guests Karina Gauvin, Ellen Hargis,
Catherine Webster, and Nell Snaidas
Nights at the Opera: Highlights from Beloved BEMF Opera Productions
* Due to illness, Catherine Webster was unable to perform;
Brenna J. Wells and Jayne Tankersley performed in her place.
Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano
From Salzburg to St. Petersburg: A Fortepiano Travel Diary
Sequentia Ensemble for Medieval Music
directed by Benjamin Bagby
Lost Songs of a Rhineland Harper
North German Organ Mini-Festival
featuring Edoardo Bellotti, Hans Davidsson, and William Porter
Fantasia in the Organ Music of the Renaissance and Baroque:
An exploration of changing concepts of fantasia from
Sweelinck to C. P. E. Bach
TALISMAN
directed by Oleg Timofeyev and Anne Harley
Stesha! Gypsy Primadonna of 1820s Moscow
Solamente Naturali
directed by Miloš Valent
Waild and Krejzy: Secular Music in 1730s Slovakia
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
directed by Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs
with guests Giuliano Carmignola, Matthias Maute,
and Kristian Bezuidenhout
Five Concerti and a Magnificat
* Due to illness, Giuliano Carmignola was unable to perform; Phoebe Carrai, Andrey Reshetin, and Maria Krestinskaya performed in his place.
Ensemble européen William Byrd
directed by Graham O’Reilly
Music in Scandinavia from the Düben Collection:
Composers working in Denmark and Sweden in the 17th century
The Boston Camerata
directed by Joel Cohen
Carmina Burana: Medieval songs from the
Benediktbeuren manuscript (ca. 1230)
The King’s Noyse
directed by David Douglass
Lust hab ich ghabt zur Musica:
The High Art of GermanRenaissance Folk Music
Blue Heron Renaissance Choir
directed by Scott Metcalfe
Music for the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) and
for his daughter Marguerite of Austria (1480-1530)
Andrey Reshetin and Maria Kresintinskaya, Baroque violin
Peter Sykes, harpsichord
Music at the Russian Manor House in the Eighteenth Century
Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, Baroque lute
Lautengalanterie
Tragicomedia
Dueling Cantatas: The Italian Cantata
in the hands of Mattheson and Handel
