November
2008
CD
now available!
Crescendo Chorus
Vocal Ensemble
Period Instrument Orchestra
...A revelation! ...a great evening of music.
...Crescendo singers acquitted themselves with appropriate gusto,
for which an enthusiastic audience rewarded them with
thunderous applause...
~Simon Wainrib, Berkshire Record
Your experience with the piece ["To Hope"
Jazz Mass] was exactly what I wanted to happen. Thank you so much for demonstrating how the composition realized those goals in your guiding hands!
~Dave Brubeck
November
2007
DVD now available!
Video was presented in
Florence, Italy in
March 2008!
at the Max Planck
Institute for Cultural
History
Crescendo, Inc. PO Box 245, Lakeville, CT 06039-2404 860-435-4866 Contact us: info@CrescendoBerkshires.org
Crescendo's Full Ensembles join forces to perform captivating antiphonal repertoire from the celebrated tradition of St. Marco in Venice: the spectacular Cori Spezzati.
Rarely performed Flemish Renaissance composer Adrian Willært's vocal and instrumental works — the first known published examples — began the tradition. In the astonishing century that followed, as the Early Baroque flowered, antiphonal church music flourished. This culminated in the beloved Psalms of David of Dresden Hofkappellmeister Heinrich Schütz.
A historic sonic event & an unusual spatial experience!
Cornetto player Kiri Tollaksen from Indiana University's Early Music Institute joins our Period Instrument Orchestra, leading colleagues playing Early Baroque winds, with concertmaster Lisa Rautenberg and our Viola da Gamba Consort.
We always
welcome engaged and experienced SINGERS to join!
AUDITIONS by appointment: contact by email Dowload registration form
here.
Weekly rehearsals and several extra dates before the concerts.
This page was last updated: July 4, 2009
Past Events:
17th AND 21st CENTURY REFLECTIONS ON ETERNITY
CRESCENDO CHORUS, VOCAL ENSEMBLE & PERIOD INSTRUMENT ORCHESTRA
Julianne Baird & Mary Gerbi Sopranos, Martin Near Counter Tenor
Philip Anderson Tenor, Jack Brown & Steven Dahlin Basses
East coast Premiere!
This concert counts with the support of the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism
CRESCENDO’S professional and amateur Ensembles join forces with international soloists like Julianne Baird to perform the East Coast Premiere of a spectacular Early Baroque Requiem Mass written at the Salzburg Cathedral in 1687 by Mozart’s predecessor, H.I.F. Biber, for orchestra, soloists and Choir. The largest Crescendo Period Instrument Orchestra ensemble to date will perform with full brass, reeds, strings, continuo and timpani. The Tenebrae of Carlo Gesualdo (1611) are motets with a harmonically daring language and of great expressivity. Crescendo Vocal Ensemble will be joined by Jazz-Fusion musician Rodrigo Tarraza in a unique and innovative exploration of superimposed improvisation, creating an original version of musical fusion.
April
2008
CD
now available!
Upcoming Concerts
This concert counts with the support of the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism
*Group price available for March 21 concert: $150 for 10 tickets
Our March 21 performance and a March 29 showing of the 2007 Totentanz Film are events featured in the
sponsored by The Women's Times publication in Great Barrington, MA
Crescendo’s tribute to Felix Mendelssohn on his 200th birthday will take you on the journey of his extraordinary life —beginning with his revival of J.S. Bach’s
St. Matthew Passion at age 20, through his early choral works reminiscent of monastic singing and his grand poly-choral music inspired by his sojourn in Italy.
It concludes with the most elaborate polyphony of his more mature years.
As his life was so close to his sister Fanny’s, a gifted composer in her own right, you will also hear her recently rediscovered Ode to St. Cecilia.
We welcome back Soprano Julianne Baird who returns to collaborate once more with Crescendo’s choral ensembles in our celebration of Mendelssohn’s life and music.
Fall 2009 Concert November 14 & 15
Georg Philipp Telemann
Crescendo Chorus & Period Instrument Orchestra
John-Arthur Miller-Baritone, Steven Fasano-Bass Baritone
Directed by Christine Gevert
Harpsichord Recital and Crescendo Annual Benefit Reception
A Tribute to Wanda Landowska.
Geneviève Soly plays Bach, Handel & Graupner
August 16, 2009 Click here for more information!
