Boston Early Music Festival
In celebration of their twenty-fifth concert season, Boston Early Music Festival will begin their series at the Morgan with a performance featuring their Chamber and Vocal Ensembles performing Monteverdi madrigals.
Monteverdi Madrigals: Songs of Love and War
BEMF Vocal & Chamber Ensembles
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors & chitarrone
Teresa Wakim, soprano
Jason McStoots, tenor
Reginald Mobley, countertenor
Douglas Williams, bass-baritone
Danielle Reutter-Harrah, mezzo-soprano
Charles Blandy, tenor
Julie Andrijeski, violin
Laura Jeppesen, viola da gamba
Michael Sponseller, harpshichord & organ
BEMF’s own Grammy-nominated Musical Directors Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs lead the all-star performers of the BEMF Chamber & Vocal Ensembles in a program of music from Monteverdi’s eight book of Madrigals. These vivid and stirring masterworks contrast the opposing yet often intertwined themes of love and war.
Preconcert talk at 7 p.m.
Boston Early Music Chamber Ensemble. Photography courtesy BEMF.