Sonoma Early Music Festival:The Splendors of Venice

Sonoma Bach Choir
Faire Violls
LOBO Consort
Phebe Craig, Organ
Directed by Robert Worth

The Sonoma Bach Choir joins with a consort of early brass and chapel masters of the famous basilica of San Marco in Venice, during the peak of the basilica's musical establishment, the century from 1527 to 1627. We focus on motets, psalm settings, and the Magnificat, featuring works by Willaert, Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli, Giovanni Croce and the divine Claudio. The program closes with a postlude from a later maestro of San Marco, the 8-party Crucifixus of Antonio Lotti.

BachGrounders begin 45 minutes prior to each concert. These half-hour lecture-demonstrations focus on the music and its background, the instruments to be used in the concert, and aspects of interpretation and performance practice.