Ninth Season
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Newsletter April–May 2011 |
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Telemann’s Ino a riveting, blood-and-guts cantata by an 84-year-old master
Tempesta di Mare’s ninth season concludes on May 20 & 21 with the orchestral program Ino, featuring George Philipp Telemann’s dramatic cantata by the same name, with Laura Heimes, soprano. Performances take place on May 20 at 8:00 at the Arch Street Meeting House in Old City and May 21 at 8:00 at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill. Tickets are $25–35, with discounts for full-time college students and seniors. Children grades 3-12 free. Tickets are available online at tempestadimare.org, by phone at 215-755-8776, or by email at Telemann’s Ino, for soprano and orchestra, tells the Greek myth of Ino, who, fleeing for her life from her enraged husband, is rescued by the gods. The music, written when the composer was 84 in the most up-to-date style at the dawn of the “classical” era, reflects the drama at each turn of situation. Soprano Laura Heimes, praised for her “sparkle and humor, radiance and magnetism,” will sing the cantata. Two instrumental works round out the program. One, a glittering “Ouverture Grosso” for double orchestra by Berlin composer Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, is in the same current style as the Telemann. It will receive its modern premiere in these performances. The other, Johann Friedrich Fasch’s majestic Concerto for Orchestra in D, features pairs of flutes, oboes, bassoons, horns and a solo violin with a string ensemble. The Fasch will be recorded in concert as part of the repertoire that will go onto a November 2011 Chandos release. Chandos Records has contracted Tempesta di Mare to produce a new CD annually for worldwide commercial release on its Chaconne label. In a marketplace otherwise dominated by European groups, Tempesta di Mare is the only US baroque orchestra on the prestigious British label’s roster. The recording project has been made possible in part with a grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Music Project. Laura Heimes, hailed for “a voice equally velvety up and down the registers,” is widely regarded as an artist of great versatility, with repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to the 21st century. She has collaborated with leading figures in early music, including Andrew Lawrence King, Julianne Baird, Paul O’Dette, The New York Collegium and Piffaro. She has been heard at the Boston, Connecticut and Indianapolis Early Music Festivals, at the Oregon and Philadelphia Bach Festivals with Helmuth Rilling, at the Carmel Bach Festival with Bruno Weil, and in Brazil in concerts of Bach and Handel. With the Philadelphia Orchestra she appeared as Mrs. Nordstrom in Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music. |
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PROGRAM
Telemann’s Ino
a riveting, blood-and-guts cantata by an 84-year-old master with soprano Laura Heimes, plus music by Fasch & Janitsch May 20 & 21 Tempesta di Mare Orchestra with Laura Heimes, soprano
WHEN & WHERE
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Tempesta di Mare's first ever orchestral tour to Germany The first concert of our Germany tour will take place on April 9 at the historic Abbey of Michaelstein in the Harz Mountains of Germany. This place has a lot of history! Built outside a natural cave inhabited by a ninth-century hermit, the former Cistercian monastery, dedicated to St. Michael, today houses the Michaelstein Abbey Foundation: a historic music institute for performance. Tempesta will play in the renowned Cloister Concert Series, and I hear from our very excited contact there that the concert is already sold out!
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info@tempestadimare.org.
ROAD TRIP
We will bring with us the European modern premieres of some of the Fasch works we have been playing during our 2010/11 concert series in Philadelphia, and which the Broad Street Review called ”a spellbinder that held your attention from the first note to final cord.“
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