MUSIC

In this hour-long, FREE concert you’ll hear the Consort’s 22-voice choir, soloists, and period instrumental ensemble perform choral music from the late and early Baroque period: · J. S. Bach’s cantata “Christ lag in Todesbanden” (“Christ lay in the bonds of death”; written by the young composer for an Easter Sunday service in Mühlhausen in 1707 or 1708) · Michel-Richard Delalande’s motet “De profundis” (Psalm 129/130; a “grand motet” for the memorial service at Versailles of the mother of Louis XV in 1724) · Peter Philips’ “Surgens Jesus Dominus” and “Ave verum corpus” (a cappella motets for the Archducal Chapel in Brussels, published in 1612 and written in a style transitional between the late Renaissance and the early Baroque) This concert is presented as part of the Boston Early Music Festival’s Fringe Concert Series. Presented at First Lutheran Church of Boston,Berkeley & Marlborough Streets. Further information is at

www.theorianaconsort.org

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