23 April 2020, 19.30-22.00
Grand Hall
Masters of Vocal Music
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists 
Presented by Liszt Academy
Monteverdi's sacred and secular music
Cancelled
Monteverdi: O ciechi, il tanto affaticar che giova?, SV 252
Monteverdi: Dixit Dominus II (‘concertato’), SV 264
Monteverdi: Confitebor tibi domine III (‘stile alla franzese’), SV 267
Monteverdi: Salve Regina I (Audi coelum), SV 283
Monteverdi: Beatus vir I, SV 268
intermission
Monteverdi: Hor che ’l ciel e la terra e ’l vento tace
Monteverdi: Lamento della Ninfa, SV 163
Monteverdi: Sestina: Lagrime d’amante al sepolcro dell’amata, SV 111
Monteverdi: Ballo delle ingrate, SV 167 – excerpts
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Vocal Soloists: Francesca Boncompagni, Anna Dennis, Julia Doyle, Mariana Flores, Silvia Frigato (soprano), Francesca Biliotti (alto), Michal Czerniawski (countertenor), Sean Clayton, Peter Davoren, Gareth Treseder, Zachary Wilder (tenor), Alex Ashworth, Gianluca Buratto, John Taylor Ward (bass)
Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner
More than 50 years ago, Sir John Eliot Gardiner founded a choir to perform a Monteverdi composition, and it is this very ensemble that now supplies a bright bouquet of church and secular vocal works by this epochal Baroque composer. One of the most significant conductors of today compiled the programme with the inventive spirit of a composer: there are movements from Monteverdi’s collection published in the final years of his life and also considered as his musical testament, as well as parts from the Madrigal Book No. 8, seen as a classic of early music avant-garde. And when these acoustic wonders delighting both ear and imagination are performed by such fine ensembles as Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, then there is every likelihood that the audience of the Grand Hall is in for an unforgettable experience. To add to the sense of occasion, Gardiner takes to the stage as an honorary professor of the Liszt Academy, his new title hopefully binding him even closer to Hungarian culture.
Presented by
Liszt Academy Concert Centre
Tickets:
HUF 8 800, 10 500, 12 200, 13 900