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Friday 28 September
8.00pm IN VENETIA: Trinity College Chapel, Trinity Street
Ticket: £25 QuintEssential Sackbut and Cornett Ensemble
Concession: £20 Nicholas Mulroy tenor
Richard Thomas director
The Glories of the Most Serene Republic A programme to mark the four-hundredth anniversary of the death of Giovanni
Gabrieli, with music by Monteverdi, Merula, di Rore, Donato, Castello,
Buonamente, Priuli, and Gabrieli himself.
Seventeenth-century Venetians loved rich and sumptuous spectacle. To satisfy the
expression of this opulence in musical terms, the Venetian printing presses
produced a wealth of instrumental music, designed to echo around the great
golden domes of St Mark’s Basilica, and also throughout La Serenissima, in the
churches, the palaces and the grand houses on the banks of the canals.
By the turn of the seventeenth century, instrumental writing had developed into a
highly sophisticated art form, utilising the glorious spaces of Venetian architecture
and the virtuosic abi-
lities of the members
of the basilica’s wind
band. The marriage
of virtuosity and out-
ward extravagance
led to some of the
finest music ever
written for the wind
band, and gives us a
window onto the
musical tastes of our
seventeenth-century
ancestors.
Saturday 29 September
10.00am MUSEUM GUIDED TOUR: Cambridge’s Italian Art
free of charge Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street We are very privileged to have secured a private tour, lasting one hour, of the
museum’s early Italian masterpieces, led by the Fitzwilliam’s Assistant Director of
Collections and Keeper of Paintings, Drawings and Prints, David Scrase.
Meet at the front entrance. Advance booking is essential, since the group size is
limited to twenty.
12.00noon FERMATE IL PASSO: St Bene’t’s Church, Bene’t Street
Ticket: £15 VivaBiancaLuna Biffi soprano, viola d’arco
Concession: £10 A mini-drama about love, woven from enchanting frottole
from late 15th- and early 16th-century Italy. The three acts describe different moments of the day (sunset, night and morning)
which are metaphors for falling in love, the torment of love, and the victory of love
over troubles. The prologue and epilogue
provide the voice of cynical reality: life is
short and love is uncertain.
VivaBiancaLuna Biffi began her musical
education on the cello in Bergamo, and went
on to study medieval fiddle, renaissance
gamba and singing at the Schola Cantorum
Basiliensis. Unique in the world of medieval
music as both an instrumentalist and singer,
she has worked with some of the most
important early music ensembles, including
Alla Francesca (France), Les Flamboyants
(Germany) and Hespèrion XXI - Capella Reial
de Catalunya (Spain). She has performed
across Europe, and also in Russia, the Middle
East, and North and South America, and has
released eight CDs.
Viva writes: The frottola repertoire, simple in appearance only, is an inexhaustible source
of artistic and conceptual inspiration, which never ceases to surprise. The more one delves
into its endless compositional and literary variety, the more one is bewitched by its
enormous potential, both musical and poetic.
2.30pm FAMILY WORKSHOP ON EARLY ITALIAN MUSIC
Adult: £17 La Dante in Cambridge Adult + child: £27 The Lodge, Hawthorn Way, Cambridge CB4 1BT
including lunch VivaBiancaLuna Biffi soprano, viola d’arco Cambridge Early Music in partnership with La Dante in Cambridge is hosting a
special event to give children the chance to be taught by an internationally known
musician. This workshop for singers and instrumentalists is suitable for all ages;
children who play a stringed instrument are particularly welcome. The workshop
will be preceded by an Italian-style picnic lunch at 1.30pm. Please ask for details.
Applications should be received by 14th September.
La Dante in Cambridge in partnership with Cambridge Early Music is proud to
promote the Festival of Italian Music, 28-30 September 2012.
La Dante in Cambridge promotes Italian language and culture and is part of the
Società Dante Alighieri in Rome. At La Dante, we teach more than just language: students
enjoy learning Italian language and culture taught by our highly qualified teachers who infuse their
lessons with their passion for all things Italian. You’ll learn everything about the people and places
that make the language what it is today. Based in the heart of the city, La Dante is your stepping-
stone to modern-day Italian culture. Visit us at our new premises:
The Lodge, Hawthorn Way, Cambridge CB4 1BT. 01223 315191 www.ladante-in-cambridge.org
8.00pm L’ESTRO ARMONICO: Great St Mary’s Church
Ticket: £25, £15 La Serenissima
Concession: £20, £10 Adrian Chandler director It was three hundred years ago
that Vivaldi published his ground-
breaking set of twelve concertos
L’Estro Armonico (The Birth of
Harmony). These pieces paved
the way for the development of
the concerto, not only by Vivaldi
himself but by other composers
too including Bach. Today, these
concertos are among the most famous of Vivaldi’s output, including the A minor
concerto for two violins and the B minor concerto for four violins. La Serenissima
is the Vivaldi orchestra par excellence, playing with terrific verve and style.
“Chandler and La Serenissima play with such finesse, such precision, and yet such
rollicking good fun, they make every work sparkle and come alive.” “They play with
animation, resilience, good sense, and passion. It’s a winning combination.” “The
trademark vitality of La Serenissima’s sound is unmistakable… imaginative phrasing and
considerable flair…music making of the highest calibre” - Goldberg Magazine
FESTIVAL DINNER: Don Pasquale, Market Square Join the Festival team and CEM’s Trustees for a late dinner (around 10.30pm) at
Don Pasquale’s family-run Italian restaurant. Please let us know by 21st September
if you would like to be included in the party. Everyone pays their share!
Sunday 30 September
12.00 noon CLAVICHORD RECITAL
Ticket: £12 St Mary’s School, Bateman Street Concession: £10 (entrance opposite Panton Street)
Julian Perkins clavichord An hour-long recital of music by Girolamo Frescobaldi and
Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti.
3.00pm A CENTURY OF VIRTUOSO VIOLIN MUSIC
Ticket: £20 St Bene’t’s Church, Bene’t Street
Concession: £15 Pavlo Beznosiuk violin, Paula Chateauneuf theorbo Passionate music spanning the early 17th to early 18th
century, from the earliest solo sonatas by Marini, Fontana
and Castello, to flamboyant works by Corelli and Vivaldi,
and Tartini’s ‘Devil’s Trill’. The Ukrainian/ Irish violinist
Pavlo Beznosiuk has been described as “an artist with star
quality”. Renowned for his virtuosity and versatility, Pavlo
has secured his reputation as one of Europe’s greatest
Baroque violinists. Soloist, accompanist, teacher and linch-
pin of numerous early music groups, Paula Chateauneuf has earned her reputation
as one of the most respected and admired musicians in the early music world.
Marco Borggreve/AAM
CAMBRIDGE EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL OF ITALIAN MUSIC
Italy was the source of many of the musical innovations of the fifteenth, sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. From the plainchant of church worship arose the laude, popular
devotional songs, in the fourteenth century, and from these developed frottole, both sacred and
secular; in turn these became madrigals and led to the madrigalian style of vocal music.
Meanwhile innovators such as Monteverdi and Caccini were developing their theories of the prima
and seconda prattica, ostensibly harking back to the rhetorical style used in the ancient world.
Side by side with the progress of vocal music came the transformation of the viola d’arco to the
much more versatile violin, and the development of the alta loud wind band into a more refined
incarnation; a whole new style of music infiltrated not only the secular world but also the church.
The instrumental sonata was adopted as part of the liturgy, giving it a legitimacy it might not
otherwise have attained. Suddenly instrumental music broke out of its religious and vocal bonds
and stood in its own right.
Our Festival of Italian Music explores this fertile period, which influenced the music of the world.
From the frottola to the virtuoso sonata, from the glorious brass of Gabrieli to the fully-fledged
baroque orchestra of Vivaldi, we are invited to taste the delights of the land of sunshine and
music. We welcome some of Europe’s foremost performers of these genres. La Serenissima is
the Vivaldi orchestra par excellence, playing with terrific verve and style. Pavlo Beznosiuk, known
to many in Cambridge for his work with the Academy of Ancient Music, plays the violin like a living
creature, squeezing the sweetest notes out of his tiny instrument; he is accompanied by Paula
Chateauneuf, a superb theorbo player (and also Pavlo’s wife!). VivaBiancaLuna Biffi is unique in
the world of medieval music, being equally proficient as singer and player of the viola d’arco. You
might have heard her perform for CEM with Mediva a few years ago. As well as her virtuosic solo
recital, Viva will share some of the secrets of the world of the frottola in a family-friendly
workshop. Julian Perkins, one of the leaders of the new generation of virtuoso keyboard players
in the UK, has given several Bach clavichord recitals for CEM; now he turns his hand to Italian
music, playing Frescobaldi and the Scarlattis – father and son. Our Festival begins with perhaps
what springs to mind most immediately when thinking about Italian music: the cornett and
sackbut ensemble playing Monteverdi, Gabrieli and others in the music of Venice. We’re
delighted to welcome QuintEssential and tenor Nicholas Mulroy for this opening concert. Our
Festival weekend also includes a guided tour of the Italian art in the Fitzwilliam Museum, led by a
distinguished expert.
Cambridge Early Music is delighted to present this Festival in partnership with La Dante in
Cambridge, which promotes Italian language and culture and is part of the Società Dante Alighieri
in Rome. Cambridge Early Music would also like to thank the Master and Fellows of Trinity College
and the Vicars and Churchwardens of Great St Mary’s and St Bene’t’s churches; David Scrase at the
Fitzwilliam Museum; Charlotte Avery and Sue Heath at St Mary’s School; the Benedetto family at
Don Pasquale, and Steve Turvill and his staff at Limoncello.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Cambridge Early Music, Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ, U.K.
www.CambridgeEarlyMusic.org tel. 01223 847330
Registered Charity Number 1127932
Picture credit: The lion of St Mark’s, Venice, by Vittore Carpaccio
CAMBRIDGE EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL OF ITALIAN MUSIC
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Cambridge Early Music and a list of the tickets you would like. If you would like a receipt posted please
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FESTIVAL OFFERS
(1) Friends and Patrons of Cambridge Early Music may buy discounted season tickets giving admission to
all ts, at £87 (concession £68). Please ask about how to join. (2) Buy tickets for QuintEssential, Viva-
BiancaLuna Biffi, La Serenissima and Pavlo & Paula, and get free admission to Julian Perkins. (3) Groups
may buy 10 tickets and receive one free. All offers are subject to availability; one discount per booking.
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WHERE TO STAY
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Cambridge Early Music
gratefully acknowledges the support
of its Patrons for 2012:
Dame Mary Archer
Keren & Jo Butler
Martin Darling
Sue Davies
Sue Edwards & David Lavender
Prof. Barry Kay
Gerald & Annabel Malton
Ellen Sarewitz
Edith Schlossmann
Dr George Smerdon
Christopher Thorpe
Prof. Tony Watts
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Cambridge Early Music
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Saturday 5 January 2013, 7.30pm, Trinity College Chapel
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Italian dance music from the 14th and 15th centuries
Friday 15 March 2013, 7.30pm, Trinity College Chapel
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