Utrecht Early Music Festival - III
Sundays in April
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 April. Each performance was recorded at St. Gertrude's Chapel in Utrecht. On April 3, Elisabeth Hetherington (soprano) and David Mackor (archlute) perform works by two seventeenth-century Italian nuns, Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana and Chiara Margarita Cozzolani. On April 10, Claron McFadden (soprano) and Mike Fentross (chitarrone) present a program of Italian Baroque love songs. One week later, fortepianist Ursula Dütschler performs 12 Progressive Lessons, Op. 32, by Czech composer Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812). Lastly, Inês d’Avena (recorder) and Claudio Ribeiro (harpsichord) perform Venetian sonatas by the likes of Diogenio Bigaglia, Francesco Gasparini, and Antonio Vivaldi.
Works by Vizzana and Cozzolani
Sunday, April 3 | 10:00
As part of this festival edition, Duo Serenissima - made up of Elisabeth Hetherington (soprano) and David Mackor (archlute) - presents rarely performed music of Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana and Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, two 17th-century Italian nuns. This concert was recorded at St. Gertrude's Chapel in Utrecht on August 26, 2020.
Songs by Strozzi, Monteverdi, Kapsberger et al.
Sunday, April 10 | 10:00
As part of this festival edition, Claron McFadden (soprano) and Mike Fentross (chitarrone) present a program of Italian Baroque love songs. This concert includes songs by Barbara Strozzi, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger, Paolo Quagliati, Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Alessandro Piccinini, and Claudio Monteverdi. This performance was recorded at St. Gertrude's Chapel in Utrecht on August 26, 2020.
Dussek - 12 Progressive Lessons, Op. 32
Sunday, April 17 | 10:00
As part of this festival edition, Swiss-born fortepianist Ursula Dütschler performs 12 Progressive Lessons, Op. 32, by Czech composer Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812). Fortepianist and harpsichordist Dütschler performs as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles in various concert halls and at festivals. This performance was recorded at St. Gertrude's Chapel in Utrecht on August 27, 2020.
Venetian sonatas for recorder and harpsichord
Sunday, April 24 | 10:00
As part of this festival edition, Inês d’Avena (recorder) and Claudio Ribeiro (harpsichord) perform Venetian sonatas. On the program are Diogenio Bigaglia’s Sonata V in E minor, Francesco Gasparini’s Suonata per spinetta divetta per S. I. in A minor, Sonata in B-flat major (anonymous), Gasparini’s Toccata di spinetta per Sig:ra Isabella del Sig:or F:co G:ni in D major, and Antonio Vivaldi’s Sonata in F major for recorder. This performance was recorded at St. Gertrude's Chapel in Utrecht on August 27, 2020.
