For their final concert of the 2011-2012 season, Schola Cantorum will perform a program of Italian 16th & 17th C music entitled:
"Sacred and Profane, the Glories of Italy."
The concert is centered around the Palestrina Mass "Salvum Me Fac". One of Palestrina's approximately 100 masses, this piece was published in 1567. Scored for five voices, this may well be the New England premier of this work, and it is filled with luminous writing and the suave vocal lines that characterise the mature works of Palestrina. Contrasting this sacred work will be several Monteverdi madrigals: " Si ch'io vorrei morire" and " Quell auggelin", as well at the moving " Lamento D'ariana". Monterverdi's successor at St Mark's in Venice was Franceso Cavalli, his ATTB setting of Salve Regina will be performed. Monteverdi motets and choral settings of the Odes Of Horace by Randall Thompson fill out the program. Theorbo player Ryaan Ahmad and Gambist Douglas Kelley assist as continuo players.
“… plaintive beauty and radiant sound …”
-- Anthony Tommasini, Boston Globe
For the past 25 years, Schola Cantorum has been recognized for lively and evocative performances of Renaissance
Sacred Music. Singing without a conductor, the group brings an intimacy and excitement to this lovely repertoire.
With Joel Cohen, we have performed at Tanglewood and served as the chorus for the Boston Camerata,
winning several prizes for recordings ranging from Early American Shaker Music to Spanish Music from the New World.
Schola Cantorum has also sung at the Boston Early Music Festival.
Founder and Director Frederick Jodry
has been acclaimed as an organist and singer, and since 1991 as the conductor of the Brown University Chorus.
“Informed through and through by the music’s very human emotions.
Silence itself - a deep inner silence, the shimmer of eternity – was being articulated."
-- Richard Buell, Boston Globe