n FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2026
8PM | First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
LE CONSORT
PAUL O’DETTE & STEPHEN STUBBS , Artistic Directors
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Dear Friends,
We are delighted to welcome you to the eighth event our 25/26 Season: Le Consort on Friday, March 13 presented in the warm acoustic of First Church in Cambridge.
Celebrating their tenth anniversary season, the thrilling young musicians of Le Consort return to BEMF with “A Trio Sonata Soirée.” This glorious evening is a whirlwind journey through Baroque Europe highlighting the fascinating and virtuosic trio sonata repertoire of composers including Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi, Dandrieu, and Albinoni, alongside other chamber music gems.
Our 25/26 Season rounds out in April with two blockbuster events. On Sunday, April 12 at 4pm at NEC’s Jordan Hall, the great Catalan viola da gambist Jordi Savall returns for a monumental performance in collaboration with his veteran ensembles and guest artists. Our series concludes on Saturday, April 25, at St. Paul Church in Cambridge, with the magnificent French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky and his ensemble Artaserse, in a program of fiery Italian cantatas inspired by jealousy.
Our virtual performances are available online: ACRONYM’s concert featuring newly rediscovered music of the Drese cousins and Bach premiered on February 28 and runs through March 14, and Le Consort’s virtual performance premieres on March 27.
We hope you enjoy all of these upcoming events. Thank you for your continued enthusiastic support of the Boston Early Music Festival.
Kathleen Fay
Boston Early Music Festival
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ARTISTIC LEADERSHIP
Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, Artistic Directors
Gilbert Blin, Opera Director
Robert Mealy, Orchestra Director
Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière, Lucy Graham Dance Director
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Bernice K. Chen, Chairman | David Halstead, President
Ellen T. Harris, Vice President | Susan L. Robinson, Vice President
Adrian C. Touw, Treasurer | Peter L. Faber, Clerk
Anthony Elitcher | Michael Ellmann | Glenn A. KnicKrehm | Robert E. Kulp, Jr.
Bettina A. Norton | Lee S. Ridgway | Ganesh Sundaram | Christoph Wolff
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Amanda Pond | Robert Strassler | Andrea Taras | Donald E. Vaughan
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n FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2026 | 8PM
VIRTUAL AVAILABILITY: March 27 to April 10, 2026
LE CONSORT
Journey through Baroque Europe for a whirlwind program spotlighting the trio sonata
n SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 2026 | 4PM
VIRTUAL AVAILABILITY: April 26 to May 10, 2026
JORDI SAVALL & FRIENDS
International artists present a dialogue with the music of Africa, America, and the Caribbean
n SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2026 | 8PM
VIRTUAL AVAILABILITY: May 9 to May 23, 2026
PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY & ARTASERSE
Thrill to Italian Baroque cantatas exploring the passion and anguish of jealosy with this superstar countertenor
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Boston Early Music Festival extends sincere thanks to the following individuals for their leadership support of our 2025/26 Concert Season:
SUSAN L. ROBINSON
Sponsor of the March 2026 performance by Tafelmusik & Juilliard415
ANDREW SIGEL
Sponsor of Jordi Savall, Director & viol, for his April 2026 appearance with Hespèrion XXI et al.
Sponsor of the virtual presentations of Stile Antico, The Tallis Scholars, ACRONYM, and Philippe Jaroussky & Artaserse
DAVID HALSTEAD and JAY SANTOS
Sponsors of the October 2025 performance by Opera Prima
GLENN A. KNICKREHM and CONSTELLATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
Sponsors of the January 2026 performance by Paul O’Dette
KENNETH C. RITCHIE and PAUL T. SCHMIDT
Sponsors of Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor, for his April 2026 appearance with Artaserse
REBECCA NEMSER
Sponsor of Amanda Forsythe, soprano, for her October 2025 appearance with Opera Prima
DR. PETER LIBBY
Sponsor of the Pre-Concert video for the April 2026 performance by Philippe Jaroussky & Artaserse
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Boston Early Music Festival PRESENTS
LE CONSORT
THÉOTIME LANGLOIS DE SWARTE & SOPHIE DE BARDONNÈCHE, violin
HANNA
Plainte for 2 violins
SALZENSTEIN, violoncello
JUSTIN TAYLOR, harpsichord
TRIO SONATA SOIRÉE
Trio Sonata in A major, Op. 1, No. 4
Michel-Pignolet de Montéclair (1667–1737)
Jean-François Dandrieu Adagio Allegro Vivace Largo Vivace (1682–1738)
Trio Sonata in D minor, Op. 1, No. 1 Tomaso Albinoni Grave Allegro Largo Allegro (1671–1751)
Duet for 2 violins, “Lilliputsche Chaconne”
Georg Philipp Telemann From Trietti methodici (1681–1767)
Trietto Terzo, TWV 42:d1 Allegro
Trietto Secondo, TWV 42:D2 Andante Vivace
From Trio Sonata in A major, Op. 1, No. 9
Antonio Vivaldi Adagio Allegro (1678–1741)
Sinfonia grave (a 3), “La Zorzi”, Op. 1, No. 6
“Ballo detto Pollicio”, Op. 12, No. 24
Biagio Marini (1594–1663)
Tarquinio Merula Ciaconna (1595–1665)
La Folia, Op. 1, No. 12
Giovanni Battista Reali (1681–1751)
Passacaglia for solo violin
From Violoncello Suite No. 1, BWV 1007
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644–1704)
Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude (1685–1750)
Trio Sonata in G major, BWV 1039 Bach Adagio Allegro ma non presto Adagio e piano Presto
Larghetto, BWV 972 (after Vivaldi)
Trio Sonata in D minor, Op. 1, No. 12, “Folia”
Bach
Vivaldi
Double-manual French harpsichord by Allan Winkler, Medford, Massachusetts, 1991, after Donzelague, property of the Boston Early Music Festival.
LIVE CONCERT
Friday, March 13, 2026 at 8pm First Church in Cambridge, Congregational 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
VIRTUAL CONCERT
Friday, March 27, 2026 – Friday, April 10, 2026 BEMF.org
Program subject to change.
Ball Square Films & Kathy Wittman, Video Production Antonio Oliart Ros, Recording Engineer
Le Consort appears by arrangement with David Rowe Artists www.davidroweartists.com www.leconsort.com
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Stellidaura’s REVENGE
BETTINA A. NORTON
Full Production Sponsor
GLENN A. KNICKREHM and CONSTELLATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
Sponsors of the BEMF Vocal & Chamber Ensembles Sponsors of Giuseppe Naviglio, Giampetro
JOANNE ZERVAS SATTLEY
Sponsor of Hannah De Priest, Stellidaura Sponsor of Aaron Sheehan, Orismondo
ANDREW SIGEL
Sponsor of Richard Pittsinger, Armidoro Sponsor of Mara Riley, Armillo
BERNICE K. CHEN
Sponsor of Gilbert Blin, Stage Director
HENK ELDERHORST
Sponsor of Grant Sorenson, Intern Assistant to the Stage Director
PHOTO: KATHY WITTMAN
PROGRAM NOTES
This program will begin with a very intimate Plainte for two violins by Michel-Pignolet de Montéclair in the key of D minor. After that, we’ll interpret a Trio Sonata in A major by Jean-François Dandrieu that we particularly love. The sonatas of Dandrieu were featured on our very first recording. Dandrieu is known by scholars for his treatise on the basso continuo, but his trio sonatas for us really do deserve a place in the very front rank of the chamber music of the period. They show a mastery of style as well of a variety of astonishing character types. They are dances overflowing with energy, a playful spirited counterpoint between the three voices, phrasing, rhythm, sweetness, passion—full of life!
Then we will travel to Venice, with Tomaso Albinoni’s first-published trio sonata. The name of this composer is associated with a very famous piece, “Albinoni’s Adagio,” which was
in fact composed and published in 1958 by an Italian musicologist! As for us, we will play a sonata by the genuine Tomaso Albinoni, who may not be famous today, but is a not-to-miss Venetian composer. Georg Philipp Telemann is the next composer on the program. First, a short duet for two violins with a funny name, “Lilliputsche Chaconne,” and then three movements from his Trietti Methodici. These pieces are remarkable due to the fact that Telemann wrote all the ornaments in the scores. In this period, ornamenting the line would have been typical, but the ornaments would not have been written on the score; they would have been left to the interpreter to create. So, to have such ornaments by the composer is unique and precious. Influenced by the Italian style (even the title trietti is in Italian!), these movements are also very virtuosic.
We return to Venice with an Adagio and an Allegro by the famous Antonio Vivaldi. They are followed by La Zorzi by Biagio Marini, a composer from Brescia who worked with Monteverdi, and two pieces by Tarquinio Merula: Ballo detto Pollicio and Ciaconna. These two compositions are full of rhythms, and the Ciaconna is a treasure of inventiveness and joyful writing. Then we will finish the first part of this concert with the Folia of Giovanni Battista Reali. Reali was an exact contemporary
ANTONIO VIVALDI Engraving by François Morellon la Cave (1725)
TELEMANN
of Vivaldi in Venice, but definitively not with the same destiny. His life has remained shrouded in mystery. In his Folia, Reali adds an extra violoncello part to the two violins and continuo to enrich the mellifluous dialogue between the violins. He also introduces an extremely novel feature by altering the meter, changing the triple time of the Folia to double time for the last two variations. The effect is quite dramatic, making the performer increase the pace (well before the term accelerando had appeared in any score)!
The post-intermission Passacaglia from Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber is composed on a ground bass of four descending notes in the key of G minor, giving the piece a somber bearing. Through changes in pace, texture, and mood, Biber take us on an emotional journey; the imagination is opened up to a panoply
of different scenes, each of which evokes a different sensation in the listener.
The Prelude from the first Suite for Violoncello solo by Johann Sebastian Bach is a masterpiece that needs no introduction. Then we’ll play the Trio Sonata in G major, BWV 1039, by the same composer. In four movements, Bach develops his extraordinary capacity for creating beautiful lines with incredible harmonies, vibrant and unique characterization of each movement: an intense moment of music.
The Larghetto from BWV 972 by Bach was originally written by Vivaldi for violin in his Opus 3 concerto collection, L’estro armonico. Bach discovered the score and decided to transcribe it for his own instrument, the harpsichord. To conclude our soirée, the Sonata No. 12 from Vivaldi’s Opus 1, Folia, is a masterpiece of the trio sonata repertoire, irresistible in its sheer momentum. The variations are built up impressively: by turns slow and fast, introspective and passionately fiery, they unfold organically with stylistic mastery, taking performers and listeners alike on a journey from intimacy to virtuosity. n
—Sophie de Bardonnèche
BIBER
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Painting by Elias Gottlob Haussmann (1748)
ARTIST PROFILE
Le Consort, a leading Baroque chamber ensemble, comprises four young musicians who interpret the trio sonata repertoire with enthusiasm, sincerity, and modernity. The group’s mission is to bring together compelling musical personalities in the service of chamber music from the repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries. From Corelli to Vivaldi, from Purcell to Couperin, the dialogue between the two violins and the basso continuo displays a wealth of contrasts between vocality, sensuality, and virtuosity. Le Consort takes this genre, the quintessence of Baroque chamber music, and interprets it with a personal, dynamic, and colorful language.
With a core which has remained constant since their founding in 2016, Le Consort performances approach a level of musical integration typically found in long-standing string quartets. In 2017, they claimed First Prize and the Audience Prize at the Loire Valley International Early Music Competition, chaired by William Christie. Their most recent recording, of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, was praised by BBC Magazine for “a sound of such transparency that details often stifled in other performances emerge with glassy clarity” and “such vaporous beauty it will leave
your sinking heart floating on clouds.” Their previous recording, Philarmonica, was hailed by Gramophone for “historically informed performance worn so naturally, and works known so intimately, that these musical stories could have come from Le Consort’s own pens and souls.” Their earlier recordings, including OPUS 1 (featuring the unpublished sonatas of Jean-François Dandrieu), and Specchio Veneziano (trio sonatas of Vivaldi alongside music of his less familiar contemporary, Giovanni Reali), have earned numerous awards and extensive critical acclaim.
Their tenth anniversary season will be an international celebration, including their BBC Proms début, an anniversary concert in Paris at Venue Salle Gaveau, their first opera (Iphigénie en Tauride) at Paris Opéra-Comique, a tour of Spain, and another of South Korea and Japan. In March 2026, they will return to North America for a nine-city tour that includes performances in Boston, New York, and Denver. They will also continue to perform their Vivaldi Four Seasons program throughout Europe.
Le Consort is in residence at the Montpellier National Opera Orchestra. n
SUNDAY, APRIL 12 | 4PM
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 | 8PM
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The Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) is universally recognized as a leader in the field of early music. Since its founding in 1980 by leading practitioners of historical performance in the United States and abroad, BEMF has promoted early music through a variety of diverse programs and activities, including an annual concert series that brings early music’s brightest stars to the Boston and New York concert stages, and the biennial weeklong Festival and Exhibition, recognized as “the world’s leading festival of early music” (The Times, London). Through its programs BEMF has earned its place as North America’s premier presenting organization for music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods and has secured Boston’s reputation as “America’s early music capital” (Boston Globe).
INTERNATIONAL BAROQUE OPERA
One of BEMF’s main goals is to unearth and present lesser-known Baroque operas performed by the world’s leading musicians armed with the latest information on period singing, orchestral performance, scenic design, costuming, dance, and staging. BEMF operas reproduce the Baroque’s stunning palette of sound by bringing together today’s leading operatic superstars and a wealth of instrumental talent from across the globe to one stage for historic presentations, all zestfully led from the pit by the BEMF Artistic Directors Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, and creatively reimagined for the stage by BEMF Opera Director Gilbert Blin. Biennial centerpiece productions feature both the Boston Early Music Festival
Orchestra, led by BEMF Orchestra Director Robert Mealy, and the Boston Early Music Festival Dance Company, led by BEMF’s newly appointed Dance Director, MarieNathalie Lacoursière.
The twenty-third biennial Boston Early Music Festival, Love & Power, was held in June 2025 and featured Reinhard Keiser’s 1705 opera Octavia. The twenty-fourth Festival, in June 2027, will have as its centerpiece Georg Philipp Telemann’s 1728 opera Emma und Eginhard.
BEMF introduced its Chamber Opera Series during its annual concert season in November 2008, with a performance of
International Baroque Opera • Celebrated Concerts • World-Famous Exhibition
BEMF’S
PHOTO: KATHY WITTMAN
John Blow’s Venus and Adonis and MarcAntoine Charpentier’s Actéon. The series features the artists of the Boston Early Music Festival Vocal and Chamber Ensembles and focuses on the wealth of chamber operas composed during the Baroque period, while providing an increasing number of local opera aficionados the opportunity to attend one of BEMF’s superb offerings. Subsequent annual productions include George Frideric Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, combined performances of Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs, Monteverdi’s Orfeo, a double bill of Pergolesi’s La serva padrona and Livietta e Tracollo, a production titled “Versailles” featuring Les Plaisirs de Versailles by Charpentier, Les Fontaines de Versailles by Michel-Richard de Lalande, and divertissements from Atys by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Francesca Caccini’s Alcina, the first opera written by a woman, a combination of Telemann’s Pimpinone and Ino, joint performances of Lully’s Idylle sur la Paix and Charpentier’s La Fête de Rueil, John Frederick Lampe’s The Dragon of Wantley, Telemann’s Don Quichotte, and most recently Francesco Provenzale’s Stellidaura’s Revenge. Acis and Galatea was revived and presented on a four-city North American Tour in early 2011, which included a performance at the American Handel Festival in Seattle, and in 2014, BEMF’s second North American Tour featured the Charpentier double bill from 2011. In summer 2025, The Dragon of Wantley was performed at Confidencen in
Stockholm, Sweden, and at Oldenburgisches Staatstheater in Oldenburg, Germany, as part of Musikfest Bremen.
BEMF has a well-established and highly successful project to record some of its groundbreaking work in the field of Baroque opera. The first three recordings in this series were all nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording, in 2005, 2007, and 2008: the 2003 Festival centerpiece Ariadne, by Johann Georg Conradi; Lully’s Thésée; and the 2007 Festival opera, Lully’s Psyché, which was hailed by BBC Music Magazine as “superbly realized…magnificent.” In addition, the BEMF recordings of Lully’s Thésée and Psyché received Gramophone Award Nominations in the Baroque Vocal category in 2008 and 2009, respectively. BEMF’s next three recordings on the German CPO label were drawn from its Chamber Opera Series: Charpentier’s Actéon, Blow’s Venus and Adonis, and a release of Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs, which won the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording and the 2015 Echo Klassik Opera Recording of the Year (17th/18th Century Opera). Agostino Steffani’s Niobe, Regina di Tebe, featuring Philippe Jaroussky and Karina Gauvin, which was released in January 2015 on the Erato/Warner Classics label in conjunction with a seven-city, fourcountry European concert tour of the opera, has been nominated for a Grammy Award, was named Gramophone’s Recording of the
SCENE FROM BEMF’S 2023 PRODUCTION OF LAMPE’S THE DRAGON OF WANTLEY
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Month for March 2015, is the 2015 Echo Klassik World Premiere Recording of the Year, and has received a 2015 Diapason d’Or de l’Année and a 2015 Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Handel’s Acis and Galatea was released in November 2015. In 2017, while maintaining the focus on Baroque opera, BEMF expanded the recording project to include other select Baroque vocal works: a new Steffani disc, Duets of Love and Passion, was released in September 2017 in conjunction with a sixcity North American tour, and a recording of Johann Sebastiani’s St. Matthew Passion was released in March 2018. Four Baroque opera releases followed in 2019 and 2020: a disc of Charpentier’s chamber operas Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Les Arts Florissants was released at the June 2019 Festival, and has been nominated for a Grammy Award; the 2013 Festival opera, Handel’s Almira, was released in late 2019, and received a Diapason d’Or. Lalande’s chamber opera Les Fontaines de Versailles was featured on a September 2020 release of the composer’s works; Christoph Graupner’s opera Antiochus und Stratonica was released in December 2020. BEMF’s recording of Desmarest’s Circé, the 2023 Festival opera, was released concurrently with the opera’s North American premiere, Pergolesi’s La serva padrona and Livietta e Tracollo was released in December 2023, Telemann’s Ino and opera arias for soprano, featuring Amanda Forsythe, was released in October 2024 and won the 2026 Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album, Lully’s Idylle sur la Paix and Charpentier’s La Fête de Reuil was released in May 2025, and the newest recording, Marazzoli’s Cantatas of Peace and Pleasure, was released in November 2025.
CELEBRATED CONCERTS
Some of the most thrilling musical moments at the biennial Festival occur during one of the dozen or more concerts presented around the clock, among them a program by
the acclaimed Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, which often feature unique, oncein-a-lifetime collaborations and programs by the spectacular array of talent assembled for the Festival week’s events. In 1989, BEMF established an annual concert series bringing early music’s leading soloists and ensembles to the Boston concert stage to meet the growing demand for regular world-class performances of early music’s beloved classics and newly discovered works. BEMF then expanded its concert series in 2006, when it extended its performances to New York City’s Gilder Lehrman Hall at the Morgan Library & Museum, providing “a shot in the arm for New York’s relatively modest earlymusic scene” (New York Times).
WORLD-FAMOUS EXHIBITION
The nerve center of the biennial Festival, the Exhibition is the largest event of its kind in the United States, showcasing nearly one hundred early instrument makers, music publishers, service organizations, schools and universities, and associated colleagues. In 2013, Mozart’s own violin and viola were displayed at the Exhibition in their firstever visit to the United States. Every other June, hundreds of professional musicians, students, and enthusiasts come from around the world to purchase instruments, restock their libraries, learn about recent musicological developments, and renew old friendships. For four days, they visit the Exhibition booths to browse, discover, and purchase, and attend the dozens of symposia, masterclasses, and demonstration recitals, all of which encourage a deeper appreciation of early music, and strengthen relationships between musicians, participants, and audiences. n
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NEW ALBUM FROM LES DÉLICES
" Recordings b y
Les Délices are jo u rne y s of disco v er y
- The New York Times
Available March 13 from AVIE Records:
ARCADIAN DREAMS features luminous soprano HANNAH DE PRIEST (Musical America's March 2026 New Artist of the month) in music by Handel, Rameau, Bourgeois and Lefebvre. Directed by Debra Nagy, oboist and founder of Les Délices. Arcadian Dreams is available to order online direct from AVIE Records.
ALSO AVAILABLE
The Poet & The Prodigy features the artistry of oboist Debra Nagy and harpsichordist Mark Edwards in works by J.S. Bach and François Couperin. Find this album and more from LD on Bandcamp.com
Boston Early Music Festival
PAUL O’DETTE & STEPHEN STUBBS , Artistic Directors
2026 GRAMMY WINNER
BEST CLASSICAL SOLO VOCAL ALBUM
“Exceptional stylish elegance and theatrical vitality.” —GRAMOPHONE
“Perfect Telemann recording.” —CLASSICS TODAY
“Forsythe handles this music with grace and ease.” —FANFARE
KATHY WITTMAN