Stefan Temmingh, recorder, Dorothee Mields, soprano & The Gentleman’s Band

Company:
Boston Early Music Festival

ARTISTS:
Stefan Temmingh, recorder
Dorothee Mields, soprano

The Gentleman's Band
Domen Marinčič, viola da gamba
Wiebke Weidanz, harpsichord
Michael Dücker, lute

WHEN: Friday, January 31, 2020 at 8pm
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden Street
PROGRAM:
Inspired by Song: Music of Dowland, Purcell, Geminiani, and others

Johann Adolph Hasse: Cantata per flauto
Anonymous: De Nachtegael
Jacob van Eyck: Engels Nachtegaeltje
Alessandro Scarlatti: Piu non m'alleta
Francesco Geminiani: An Irish Tune
Traditional: Lady Ann Bothwel's Lament
Geminiani: Lady Ann Bothwel's Lament
John Dowland: Flow my Tears
Johan Schop: Lachrimae Pavan
Anonymous: Greensleeves
Frederik Nussen: Can Love be controul'd?
Johann Christophe Pepusch: Can Love be controul'd by Advice?
Anonymous: Faronells Ground
Thomas D'Urfey: The King's Health to Farrinels Ground (La Follia)

TICKETS: Tickets are priced at $20, $39, $51, and $70 each, and can be purchased at BEMF.org and 617-661-1812; a $5 discount for students, seniors, and groups is available by calling 617-661-1812. Subscription discounts are available with the purchase of three or more programs on the 2019-2020 Season.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM:
The "cover song" is not a recent invention - Baroque composers relished the opportunity to explore popular folk songs with their own flamboyant renditions. The results were overflowing with intense emotions, from joyous humor to passionate love and desperate sorrow. After making his American début at our June 2019 Festival, thrilling recorder virtuoso Stefan Temmingh makes a triumphant return in a program alternating English folk songs with masterpieces by Dowland, Purcell, D'Urfey, Geminiani, and others. He is joined by the astonishing German soprano and past BEMF artist Dorothee Mields and his regular collaborators, The Gentleman's Band.

Stefan describes the program as "conveying a genuine love of life," explaining that "the words of these songs were always very basic and down to earth: the feeling of being loved in John, Come Kiss Me Now; the frustration of a mother trying to get her child to sleep in Lady Ann Bothwel's Lament; the grief of a spurned lover in Greensleeves...These are emotions and situations in life that are familiar to each and every one of us." These popular songs made the virtuoso embellishments and complex harmonies of the variations more accessible to the Baroque listener as they do to us today. "Everyone is invited."
, 8:00 pm

First Church, Cambridge
11 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States

Type:
Recital & Concert