XIV Early Music Festival

17 July to 20 July - see places and times below

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XIV Early Music Festival

Programme

Thursday, July 17, 3pm, Riga, “Three Brothers” courtyard
Opening ceremony, press conference
Latin American renaissance and baroque music ensemble “Villancico” (Sweden)
Brass ensemble “5atā!”
Programme: works by Johann Pezel, Antonio Mortaro, Giovanni Battista Grillo, Tylman Susato, Samuel Scheidt, Anthony Holborn and others bez punkta galā

Thursday, July 17, 8pm, Riga, Small Guild
French and German Baroque
Normunds Šnē (oboe), Egils Upatnieks (oboe), Jānis Semjonovs (bassoon), Jānis Stafeckis (double bass), Agnese Kanniņa-Liepiņa (violin), Māris Kupčs (harpsichord) bez punkta galā
Programme: François Couperin, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Johann Sebastian Bach

Friday, July 18, 8pm, Riga, Small Guild
Renaissance Music and Dance
Ensemble “Villancico” (Sweden)

Friday, July 18, 10pm, Riga, St Peter’s Church
Night concert “Mysteries”
Ensemble “Butterflies in the Sky” – Alise Juška (baroque violin), Jānis Pelše (positive organ), Ainārs Paukšēns (viola da gamba) and soloists Daniele Caminiti (teorba), Katarina Bengtson (baroque violin), Uku Joller (bass), dancers Anna Soboļeva and Madara Makovska, choreographer Inga Raudinga

Saturday, July 19, 6pm, Riga, St Peter’s Church
Music of Old Riga
Ensemble “Mederconsort” (Estonia)
Programme: Estonian and German baroque music

Saturday, July 19, 8pm, Riga, Small Guild
Opera „Xerxes” by George Frideric Handel
Baroque orchestra “Collegium Musicum Rīga” and soloists, conductor Māris Kupčs

Sunday, July 20, 2pm, Palace Garden
Garden Magic
Children’s event, applications accepted until 12.30

Sunday, July 20, 4pm, White Hall
Golden Harpsichord
Baroque orchestra “Collegium Musicum Rīga”, Silvia Müller (transverse flute), Varvara Manukyan (harpsichord), Māris Kupčs (harpsichord)
Programme: Antonio Vivaldi, Georg Philipp Telemann, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Aurelio Virgiliano

Sunday, July 20, 6pm, White Hall
Opera “Le Cinesi” by Christoph Willibald Gluck
Evija Martinsone (soprano), Inga Šļubovska (soprano), Baiba Berķe (mezzo-soprano), Jānis Kurševs (tenor), Vidzeme Chamber Orchestra, conductor Andris Veismanis

Sunday, July 20, 8pm, White Hall
Latin American Renaissance and Baroque Music
Ensemble “Musica Ficta” (Columbia)

Sunday, July 20, 10pm, Palace Garden
Rameau’s “Dardanus” and Handel’s “Fireworks Music”
State Chamber Orchestra “Sinfonietta Rīga”, conductor Normunds Šnē, choreographer Agris Daņiļēvičs, Dance Group “Dzirnas”, lighting designer Mārtiņš Feldmanis, Baroque Chamber Orchestra, conductor Andris Veismanis
Programme: Jean-Philippe Rameau, Kārlis Lācis, Michel Richard Delalande, George Frideric Handel

Information published April 2