Early Music Vancouver – Past Concerts
Early Music Vancouver: Bach’s Sons feat. Elinor Frey, cello & Pacific Baroque Orchestra
Wednesday, November 24, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Online event
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (att.) – Orchestral Suite in G minor, BWV 1070
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach – Cello Sonata in A major, HW X/3
Johann Christian Bach – Chromatic Fugue on BACH, W YA 50
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Cello Concerto in A minor, H. 432
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach – Cello Sonata in A major, HW X/3
Johann Christian Bach – Chromatic Fugue on BACH, W YA 50
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Cello Concerto in A minor, H. 432
Free
Early Music Vancouver: Lab’rinths – Purcell & His Contemporaries
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Online event
Sacred songs from a 1688 collection by Henry Purcell & his Baroque contemporaries, sung by baritone Jonathon Adams, plus work for 2 viols by gambists Mélisande Corriveau & Susie Napper.
Free
Early Music Vancouver: Andreas Staier Inaugurates EMV’s Graf Piano with Mozart, Haydn, & Schubert
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 @ 5:00am – 4:59am (PDT)
Online event
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Fantasia in C minor, K. 475
Franz Joseph Haydn – Piano Sonata No. 59 in E-flat major, Hob. XVI:49, L. 59
Franz Joseph Haydn – Variations in F minor, Hob XVII:6
Franz Schubert – Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-flat major, D. 960
Franz Joseph Haydn – Piano Sonata No. 59 in E-flat major, Hob. XVI:49, L. 59
Franz Joseph Haydn – Variations in F minor, Hob XVII:6
Franz Schubert – Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-flat major, D. 960
Free (Free)
Early Music Vancouver: Pilgrimage to Bach feat. Jonathon Adams, baritone, Pacific Baroque Orchestra
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Online event
EMV’s summer artist-in-residence, baritone Jonathon Adams, & the PBO perform 2 J.S. Bach cantatas particularly relevant to current times: BWV 82, Ich habe genug; & BWV 56, Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen.
Free
Early Music Vancouver: Chaconne – In Memory of Jeanne Lamon
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Online event
2 rarely heard suites from Johann Pachelbel’s most major surviving chamber work, Musicalische Ergötzung ("Musical Delight"), plus Baroque works by Antonio Bertali, Nicola Matteis, Dietrich Buxtehude, & more.
Free
Early Music Vancouver: Mandinka Pilgrimage feat. Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko, kora
Friday, September 24, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
Explore the epics of the Mandinka Kingdom with kora master Ablaye Cissoko & Montreal’s Ensemble Constantinople, in this concert that seeks to blend the sounds of West Africa & Persia.
Free ($17.52-$19.95 online / $33.48-$35.88 in person)
Vancouver Bach Festival: The City of Ladies (film)
Tuesday, July 27, 2021 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
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.
Free (Free ($5-$10CAD in-person))
Vancouver Bach Festival: Barbara Strozzi – From Tears To Laughter (film)
Tuesday, July 27, 2021 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
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.
Free (Free ($5-$10CAD in-person))
Vancouver Bach Festival: A Tribute To The Hospitalières (film)
Tuesday, July 27, 2021 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
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.
Free (Free ($5-$10CAD in-person))
Vancouver Bach Festival: Cozzolani Reunited (film)
Tuesday, July 27, 2021 @ 1:00pm – 3:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
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.
Free (Free ($5-$10CAD in-person))
Vancouver Bach Festival: Nightingales in the Garden (film)
Tuesday, July 27, 2021 @ 11:00am – 1:00pm (PDT)
Online and in-person
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.
Free (Free ($5-$10CAD in-person))
Early Music Vancouver: Concerti Virtuosi feat. Pacific Baroque Orchestra & Vincent Lauzer, recorder
Wednesday, June 2, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Online event
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
Giovanni Bononcini – "Sinfonia" from La conversione di Maddalena
George Frideric Handel – Recorder Sonata in C major, HWV 365
Giuseppe Sammartini – Concerto in F major
Free
Early Music Vancouver: Metamorfosi feat. Ensemble Constantinople
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Online event
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.
Free
Early Music Vancouver: The Small Rain feat. Isaiah Bell, tenor & Alexander Weimann, keyboard
Wednesday, May 5, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Online event
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.
Free
The Crossroads of Cantemir feat. Ensemble Constantinople
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Online event
Ensemble Constantinople performs the music of Moldavian prince/scholar/composer/diplomat Dimitrie Cantemir, a central figure in Ottoman music history.
Free
Dynamic Duos: Memorable Musical Partnerships in 18th-Century England
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Online event
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.
Free