Carnegie Hall Presents

Early Music in Weill Recital Hall

The intimate Weill Recital Hall is the perfect setting for this series of vibrant recitals of Baroque and Renaissance gems. Several of the brightest stars in the field today create their own inventive interpretations in these historically informed performances, illuminating the works in a completely new light for audiences. After each concert, stay for a Salon Encores reception and get together with the evening's musicians and people who love music as much as you do.

Series Events

Thursday, October 10, 2013 | 7:30 PM
Carolyn Sampson
Weill Recital Hall

Performers

  • Carolyn Sampson, Soprano
  • Beiliang Zhu, Baroque Cello
  • Paul O'Dette, Lute
  • Kenneth Weiss, Harpsichord

Program

    ALL-PURCELL PROGRAM
  • "Thou wakeful shepherd" (A morning hymn)
  • "Music for a while"
  • "Sweeter than roses" from Pausanias
  • "Thrice happy lovers" from The Fairy Queen
  • "Oh! fair Cedaria, hide those eyes"
  • "I attempt from love’s sickness to fly" from The Indian Queen
  • "From rosy bow'rs"
  • "Let us dance, let us sing"
  • "Man is for the woman made"
  • "If music be the food of love"
  • "The fatal hour comes on apace"
  • "From silent shades, and the Elysian groves" (Bess of Bedlam)
  • "O solitude, my sweetest choice"
  • "Hark! The ech’ing air" from The Fairy Queen
  • "When first Amintas sued for a kiss"
  • "Now that the sun hath veiled his light" (An evening hymn)
Purcell's "If music be the food of love"
Carolyn Sampson, Soprano | Laurence Cummings, Harpsichord | Anne-Marie Lasla, Bass Viol
BIS
Thursday, February 20, 2014 | 7:30 PM
Fabio Biondi
Kenneth Weiss
Weill Recital Hall

Performers

  • Fabio Biondi, Violin
  • Kenneth Weiss, Harpsichord

Program

  • BACH Violin Sonata in G Major, BWV 1021
  • BACH Violin Sonata No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019
  • BACH Violin Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017
  • BACH Italian Concerto, BWV 971
  • P.A. LOCATELLI Sonata in D Minor, Op. 6, No. 12
Bach's Violin Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1052R (Allegro)
Europa Galante | Fabio Biondi, Conductor and Violin
Virgin Veritas
Thursday, April 10, 2014 | 7:30 PM
Iestyn Davies
Thomas Dunford
Weill Recital Hall

Performers

  • Iestyn Davies, Countertenor
  • Thomas Dunford, Lute

Program

  • JOHNSON "Have you seen the bright lily grow?"
  • JOHNSON "Care–charming sleep"
  • JOHNSON "From the Famous Peak of Derby"
  • DANYEL "Grief, keep within"
  • DANYEL "Why canst thou not, as others do?"
  • DANYEL "Can doleful notes?"
  • DANYEL "Never weather—Beaten sail"
  • NICO MUHLY New Work (NY Premiere)
  • DOWLAND "Come again, sweet love doth now invite"
  • DOWLAND "In darkness let me dwell"
  • DOWLAND "Can she excuse my wrongs"
  • DOWLAND "Flow, my tears, fall from your springs"
  • DOWLAND The Frog Galliard
  • DOWLAND "Now, O now, I needs must part"

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