Early Music Vancouver – Past Concerts

Portative organist Catalina Vicens & early music ensemble Servir Antico tell the story of revolutionary Medieval poet Christine de Pizan. Featuring compositions by Baude Cordier, Solage, Gilles Binchois, Guillaume Dufay, & more.

Tribute to Italian composer/singer Barbara Strozzi that explores lighter side of her repertoire, as well as her famous lament Lagrime mie, complimented by plucked & bowed string instruments from Iran, Turkey, & Italy.

Musical & theatrical film honoring the 17-C. Hospitalières of France & Quebec. Featuring performances by female singers of the Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal & French actress Célia Laguitton.

Italian Baroque works are on display in this concert film featuring motets from Chiara Margarita Cozzolani's Scherzi di sacra melodia, as well as Maria Francesca Nascinbeni's chamber trio, Non tema nò di morte.

Concert film featuring music from Scottish Classical composer James Oswald's 48 Airs for the Seasons, performed by VBF musicians & dancers from Ballet BC at Vancouver’s VanDusen Botanical Gardens.

Francesco Geminiani – Concerto Grosso after Corelli, No. 10 in F major, H. 141
Giovanni Bononcini – "Sinfonia" from La conversione di Maddalena
George Frideric Handel – Recorder Sonata in C major, HWV 365
Giuseppe Sammartini – Concerto in F major

Ensemble Constantinople reinvents work by Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger, Claudio Monteverdi, Salamone Rossi, & others. Also included are masterpieces from the Ottoman court & new works by Kiya Tabassian.

Join Isaiah Bell, one of Canada’s most promising young tenors, for a program including traditional folk songs, works by G.F. Handel & Franz Schubert, as well as Isaiah’s own philosophically minded poetry.

Ensemble Constantinople performs the music of Moldavian prince/scholar/composer/diplomat Dimitrie Cantemir, a central figure in Ottoman music history.

Join Paul Luchkow and Michael Jarvis as they explore the music of Handel and his favorite pupil and personal secretary, John Christopher Smith, as well as music by the famous Bach-Abel partnership, which resulted in the fashionable London subscription concert series.