Directed by Ivars Taurins, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir will mix for a night of Choral Splendours. Soprano Myriam Leblanc is the featured soloist in a program that options works by Bach and Zelenka from March 28 to 30.
With few of his works revealed, it was left to twentieth and twenty first century students and musicians like celebrity oboist Heinz Holliger to rediscover and champion the work of Jan Zelenka, a up to date of Bach whose music fell into obscurity for hundreds of years.
Bach and Zelenka
“We all know that Bach held Zelenka’s music in excessive esteem, which is fascinating to me, because the character of their respective musical types is so completely different,” says Ivars Taurins in a press release. “Each had been extremely completed, progressive composers who wrote masterful, complicated works, however Zelenka’s music is extra idiosyncratic, eccentric, and extrovert: directly charged with an uncommon emotional depth, after which completely charming and capricious.”
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 to 1750) and Bohemian composer Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679 to 1745) had been associates who admired one another’s work.
Even throughout their time, Bach achieved a a lot larger diploma of fame and fortune, and Zelenka appears to have died impoverished and in obscurity. However, whereas fame eluded Zelenka, each Bach and Telemann acknowledged the worth of his music. Zelenka put his personal distinctive stamp on the contrapuntal music of the time, introducing components corresponding to syncopation, chromatic harmonies, and polyrhythms into the same old Baroque predictability.
Zelenka labored throughout the newly transformed to Catholic court docket of Dresden, however regardless that he was performing kapellmeister for years, he was handed over in favour of the youthful Johann Adolph Hasse when it got here to make the everlasting appointment. So as to add insult to harm, Hasse’s wage was significantly bigger than what Zelenka had been paid.
After his reluctant retirement, he lived on a small pension whereas persevering with to compose. In truth, his later works — which he wrote with out having any anticipation they’d ever be carried out — consisted of 5 unique and joyous Lots.
Tafelmusik has carried out 4 of the 5 beforehand, and with Missa Sanctissimae Trinitatis on this program, full the cycle.
Zelenka’s Amen, from Magnificat ZWV 108, can also be on this system, together with Bach’s Refrain “Es ist dir gesagt” from Cantata 45, the Cantata 150, and Aria “Süßer Trost” from Cantata 151.
Soprano Myriam Leblanc
Québecoise soprano Myriam Leblanc was the winner of the Viewers Selection Award within the Centre Stage competitors of the Canadian Opera Firm in 2016. A former member of the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal, she gained their annual prize for excellence, and the primary prize on the Mathieu Duguay Early Music Competitors on the Lamèque Worldwide Baroque Music Competition in 2017.
A coloratura soprano, Myriam works with equal facility on this planet of bel canto and Baroque opera, with a specialization oratorios and live shows. Myriam has carried out with les Violins du Roy, Dompierre, I Musici, and beforehand with Tafelmusik, amongst many different ensembles.
She will likely be featured within the Zelenka Mass, and sings an aria from Bach’s Cantata 150.
Discover extra particulars concerning the live shows on March 28, 29 and 30, and tickets, [HERE]. https://tafelmusik.org/concerts-events/live shows/bach-zelenka/
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