1999 Festival
Operatic Centerpiece
Ercole Amante
Music by Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676)
Libretto by Francesco Buti (d. 1682)
Festival Concerts
Andreas Staier, harpsichord
Variacones del Fandango Español
Ensemble Sarband
directed by Vladimir Ivanoff
Sephardic Songs in the Hispano-Arabic Tradition of Medieval Spain
The King’s Noyse/BEMF Violin Band
Il Giardino d’Amore: Choice plums from
Alessandro Scarlatti’s rich musical garden
La Colombina
Feria VI in Passione Domini: La litrugia del Viernes Santo
Hespèrion XX
directed by Jordi Savall
Tonos Humanos & Differencias:
Spanish Songs & Instrumental Variations
Hespèrion XX
directed by Jordi Savall
Las Folias
The Boston Camerata
directed by Joel Cohen
Nueva España: Baroque fiestas in the New World
Dan Laurin, recorder
Byron Schenkman, harpsichord
Virtuosic Explosions in the Italian Style
La Luna
Sprezzatura
La Colombina
Musica en Las Españas de Felipe II: Villancicos, ensaladas,
and madrigals from 16th-century Catalonia, Castille, and Andalusia
Jan Willem Jansen, organ
B.A.C.H.: Bruna, Arauxo, Cabanilles, and de Heredia
Tragicomedia
with Marco Beasley, tenor
Festa Napolitana


