1989 Festival
Operatic Centerpiece
Idomeneo
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Libretto by Abbé Giambattista Varesco (ca. 1736–1805)
Festival Concerts
Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Consort, Choir, and Players
directed by Andrew Parrott
Claudio Monteverdi: Solemn Mass for the Feast of S. Maria della Salute in Thanksgiving for the Delivery of the City of Vencie from the Plague
Capella Agostino Steffani
directed by Lajos Rovatkay
Agostino Steffani: Enrico Leone
Hortus Musicus Tallinn
directed by Andres Mustonen
Tractus Stellæ
Sequentia Ensemble for Medieval Music
directed by Barbara Thornton and Benjamin Bagby
Planctus Mariæ
Capella Agostino Steffani
directed by Lajos Rovatkay
Austrian Instrumental Chamber Music
Emily Van Evera, Eric Mentzel, Andrew Parrott,
and Richard Wistreich, voice with 20 lutenists
Three, Four & Twenty Lutes
Sequentia Ensemble for Medieval Music
directed by Barbara Thornton and Benjamin Bagby
A Vision of Mediæval English Music
Hortus Musicus Tallinn
directed by Andres Mustonen
16th- and 17th-century German, Italian, and English Music
Steffano Innocenti, organ
German and Italian Masterpieces for Organ
The Boston Camerata
directed by Joel Cohen
Requiem for a King
Marion Verbruggen, recorder
Stanley Ritchie and Daniel Stepner, violin
Elisabeth Wright, harpsichord
Wieland Kuijken and Laura Jeppesen, viola da gamba
Les Goûts Réunis
