Crescendo Music
Theatrical Viewing: Carissimi – Jephte and Missa L’Homme armé
The Moviehouse 48 Main Street, Millerton, NY, United StatesThis program features two works by the Italian Baroque composer Giacomo Carissimi. Carissimi tells a dramatic Old Testament story in one of the first oratorios in music history: Jephte. This oratorio leaves nothing to be desired, as it presents the full spectrum of emotions in the voices of the singers and instruments. Carissimi’s twelve-voice mass […]
Crescendo Concerts presents Hommage à Wanda Landowska: “A Treasury of Harpsichord Music”
Lakeville United Methodist Church 319 Main Street, Lakeville, CT, United StatesA harpsichord solo recital “A Treasury of Harpsichord Music” is performed by Kenneth Weiss, professor at the Paris Conservatoire, France, in honor of the legendary harpsichord virtuoso and scholar Wanda Landowska. In Landowska’s hometown, Lakeville, Conn., Weiss plays works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Domenico Scarlatti, Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Jean-Philippe Rameau, François Couperin, Henry Purcell, […]
Crescendo Concerts presents “Nature in Vivaldi’s Sounds”
Trinity Church, Lakeville, Conn. 484 Lime Rock Rd., Lakeville, CT, United StatesAntonio Vivaldi conveyed the beauty and dramatic conflicts of nature in his instrumental music with an intensity unparalleled by his contemporaries. In the violin concerto “Tempesta di mare” (The Storm at Sea) and the flute concertos "La notte" (The Night) and "Il gardellino" (The Goldfinch), Vivaldi again demonstrates how adept he is at using the […]
Crescendo Concerts presents “Nature in Vivaldi’s Sounds”
Saint James Place 352 Main Street, Great Barrington, Mass.Antonio Vivaldi conveyed the beauty and dramatic conflicts of nature in his instrumental music with an intensity unparalleled by his contemporaries. In the violin concerto “Tempesta di mare” (The Storm at Sea) and the flute concertos "La notte" (The Night) and "Il gardellino" (The Goldfinch), Vivaldi again demonstrates how adept he is at using the […]
