1:15 pm, Thursday, March 15, 2018
Midtown Concerts
St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church
Park Avenue between 50th and 51st Street
New York, NY

MUSICAL GAMES, PUZZLES, AND RIDDLES OF THE RENAISSANCE

A CENTURY OF MUSICAL INGENUITY, 1410-1510

MUSIC FOR HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN I

Argentum et aurum (chant antiphon) Missa Argentum et aurum, Kyrie Missa Argentum et aurum, Gloria

Regensburg 4306 (1501) Henricus Isaac (ca. 1450-1517) Henricus Isaac

A PICTURE SONG IN THE SHAPE OF A HEART

Belle, bonne, sage

Baude Cordier (ca. 1410)

MUSICAL PORTRAIT OF OCKEGHEM

In hydraulis

Antoine Busnoys (d.1492)

THEME SONG OF THE ORDER OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE

L’homme armé Il sera par vous conbatu/L’homme armé, 3vv Missa L’homme armé, Kyrie

Anonymous Guillaume Du Fay (ca. 1397-1474) Johannes Ockeghem (ca. 1410?-1497)

A PICTURE SONG IN THE SHAPE OF A CIRCLE

Tout par compas, 3vv

Baude Cordier

THE MASS OF THE DICE

Missa Di dadi, Sanctus

Josquin Desprez

 

Pomerium

Kristina Boerger, Melissa Fogarty, Chloe Holgate, Dominique Surh – sopranos
Michèle Eaton – mezzo-soprano
Peter Gruett – countertenor
Nathaniel Adams, Patrick Fennig, Emerson Sieverts, Michael Steinberger, Christopher Preston Thompson – tenors
Kurt-Owen Richards, Peter Stewart – basses

This concert is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts