2018-2019 NYC Concert Series
Join Parthenia for our season of Italian and English Music from the Renaissance.
MUSIC WITH HER SILVER SOUND
Parthenia and New World Recorders (Gwyn Roberts, Héloïse Degrugillier, Rainer Beckmann and Tricia van Oers) offer canzonas, ricercars, fantasias, motets and polychoral masterpieces from Italy and England.
Corpus Christi Church
529 West 121st Street in Manhattan
AL NAHAROT BAVEL (By the Waters of Babylon) – Jewish musicians at the courts of England and Italy
Esteemed NYC ensembles ARTEK and Parthenia offer a glorious concert of music by Jewish composers of the Renaissance and Baroque. Madrigals, fantasies and more by Salomone Rossi in Italy and the Lupo and Bassano musical dynasties in England.
The Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street in Manhattan
MUSIC IN THE AGE OF TINTORETTO – Artist of Renaissance Venice
BONUS CONCERT!
Parthenia has been invited to reprise last season’s TOMB SONNETS program with Ryland Angel during the Tintoretto exhibition at The National Gallery of Art this spring. We offer you a chance to hear the program again this season in NYC.
Vocalist Ryland Angel and Parthenia present sublime songs from Renaissance Italy, and a new work for viol consort and countertenor by Martin Kennedy. Tomb Sonnets (2014) is a reflection on death and burial sites in poems by Keats, Longfellow and Petrarch.
The Church of Saint Luke in the Fields
487 Hudson Street in Manhattan
COME LIFE, COME DEATH, I CARE NOT – A musical tour of Jacobean London
Madrigalists LES CANARDS CHANTANTS join Parthenia, and guest Motomi Igarashi, for a presentation of Michael East’s Third Book of Madrigals of 1610. Anthems, madrigals, Neapolitans and pastorals for voices and viols, and a cycle of eight remarkable viol fantasias.
Corpus Christi Church
529 West 121st Street in Manhattan