Utrecht Early Music Festival - IV
Sundays in May
Every year in late August, the renowned Early Music Festival takes place in the Dutch city of Utrecht. It is the world's largest festival focused on early music, attracting an audience of over 70 thousand visitors. Due to the corona pandemic, the 2020 edition of the festival took place in an alternative form, offering an alternative program that included live concerts as well as daily livestreams of concerts and archive recordings. Stingray Classica continues its broadcasts from the 2020 edition of this festival on Sunday mornings throughout May at 10:00 CEST. Each performance was recorded at St. Gertrude's Chapel in Utrecht. On May 1, forte pianist Artem Belogurov and cellist Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde present a program devoted to works by Ludwig van Beethoven. On May 8, violist Antoinette Lohmann and harpsichordist Jörn Boysen perform a number of rarely performed works from the archives of the Italian musical family Di Martinelli and the Kroměříž music collection. One week later, Marc Pantus (bass-baritone) and Andrea Friggi (harpsichord) perform a song recital portraying Cardenio, a character from Miguel de Cervantes's quintessential novel 'Don Quixote'. On May 22, Kate Clark (soprano and tenor flute), João Carlos Santos (tenor flute), and Pablo Sosa del Rosario (bass flute) perform traverso repertoire from the early Renaissance. Lastly, Lucie Horsch (recorder) and Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya (harpsichord) perform several suites and sonatas by J. S. Bach, François Couperin, and Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, and others.
Works for cello and fortepiano by Beethoven
Sunday, May 1 | 10:00
As part of the Utrecht Early Music Festival, forte pianist Artem Belogurov and cellist Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde present a program devoted to works by Ludwig van Beethoven. The duo met in Amsterdam in 2015, performing many recitals at several European and North American festivals and in concert halls. On the program are Beethoven's Variations for cello and forte piano on ‘Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen’ from W. A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, WoO 46, Rondo in C major for fortepiano, Op. 51 no. 1, Rondo in G major for fortepiano, Op. 51 no. 2, and Sonata in F major for cello and fortepiano, Op. 5 no. 1. This concert was recorded at St. Gertrude's Chapel in Utrecht on August 27, 2020.
Works by Kindermann, Fischer, and Baal
Sunday, May 8 | 10:00
As part of the Utrecht Early Music Festival, Antoinette Lohmann (violin, viola and violino piccolo) and Jörn Boysen (harpsichord) perform a number of rarely performed works from the archives of the Italian musical family Di Martinelli and the Kroměříž collection. On the program are German baroque compositions of Johann Erasmus Kindermann, Johann Fischer, Johann Baal, and others. This concert was recorded at St. Gertrude's Chapel in Utrecht on August 27, 2020.
Vocal works by Handel, Conti, Purcell a. o.
Sunday, May 15 | 10:00
As part of the Utrecht Early Music Festival, Marc Pantus (bass-baritone) and Andrea Friggi (harpsichord) perform a song recital portraying Cardenio, a character from Miguel de Cervantes's quintessential novel 'Don Quixote'. The duo performs works by Bernardo Pasquini, Giovanni Legrenzi, George Frideric Handel, John Blow, Antonio de Ribera, Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, John Eccles, and Henry Purcell. This concert was recorded at St. Gertrude's Chapel in Utrecht on August 30, 2020.
Traverso music by Ockeghem, Sweelinck a. o.
Sunday, May 22 | 10:00
As part of the Utrecht Early Music Festival, Kate Clark (soprano and tenor flute), João Carlos Santos (tenor flute), and Pablo Sosa del Rosario (bass flute) perform traverso repertoire from the early Renaissance. On the program are works by Johannes Ockeghem, Giovanni Bassano, Jacob Obrecht, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, and others. This concert was recorded at St. Gertrude's Chapel in Utrecht on August 30, 2020.
Works for recorder by Boismortier, Couperin a. o
Sunday, May 29 | 10:00
As part of the Utrecht Early Music Festival, Lucie Horsch (recorder) and Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya (harpsichord) perform several suites and sonatas. On the program are Charles François Dieupart’s Suite V in F, Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sonata, BWV 1035, a selection of preludes from Jacques Hotteterre’s L’art de Préluder, François Couperin’s Concert Royal IV, and Joseph Bodin de Boismortier’s Sonata in e, Op. 91 nr. 4. This concert was recorded at St. Gertrude's Chapel in Utrecht on August 31, 2020.