The genius dimension of Giovanni Legrenzi

Musica Mirabilis Festival, Clusone

Founded in 2015 in Bozeman, Baroque Music Montana is well-known throughout the region for their engaging presentations of chamber music inspired by history. We are thrilled to welcome several members of the chamber group to Tippet Rise for their concert debut, including founder and baroque violinist Carrie Krause; Nate Helgeson, performing on the dulcien, a guitar-like instrument; and John Lenti, playing the theorbo, a predecessor to the modern-day bassoon. Their performance will feature 17th century music by Italian, German, and Spanish composers intermingled with informative and lively explanations and unique insights into the oldest music of the 2024 season.

Baroque Music Montana

Tippet Rise Art Center

Today’s most celebrated bel canto tenor joins us as a Mosher guest artist to perform a recital themed ‘Songs of My Youth,’ featuring arias from his signature roles, Italian art songs, and spirituals, with teaching artist JOHN CHURCHWELL on the piano.

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Lawrence Brownlee & Jonathan Churchwell

Music Academy of the West

Elizabeth Blumenstock, Jolianne Einem and Rob Diggins (violins), with Eva Lymenstull (cello and viola da gamba) and Ian Pritchard (harpsichord and organ), in virtuosic music for three violins by Giovanni Battista Buonamente, Johann Pachelbel (yes, the canon – and more!), Henry Purcell, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, and others. Plus, birdsong-inspired pieces.

Nightingales in the Gardens

Sherman Library & Gardens

Today’s recital, Monteverdi and His Venetian Legacy, is a journey through the rich musical heritage of Venetian composers from the late Renaissance to the Baroque, featuring works by Monteverdi, Cavalli and Vivaldi.

The Bellot Ensemble

Corn Exchange

The Early Baroque era of Italian music brought a zenith of dramatic and technical display in the hands of new generations of virtuoso singers and instrumentalists. Composers and performers united in their course of revealing new depths of expression, color, and theatrical effects through music that is immediately thrilling and enthralling.  From the delicate and spatial interplay of three violins in Marini’s Sonata in Ecco to the full-throated and lovelorn dramatic vocal works of Monteverdi — including two epic narratives from his Madrigals of Love and War — this is a program that moves from mystery to magic and from the sacred to the secular.  Headliner works are Isabella Leonarda’s entrancing Sonata XII, Monteverdi’s Magnificat a 6 from the Vespers of 1610, and the same composer’s powerfully arresting setting of Torquato Tasso’s Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. An ensemble of evocative ABS artists brings this passionate music to light in a program featuring vocal and violinistic fireworks. 

Pious & Profane

St. Stephen's Episcopal Church

First Congregational Church

Davis Community Church

St. Mark's Lutheran Church, San Francisco

This timeless masterpiece, which nurtured the violinist's vocation, becomes a true sensory and metaphysical journey. Narrative and flamboyant, Vivaldi's cycle explores nature and the passing of time, between bursts of joy, climatic torments, and lyrical flights. In this interpretation, the dialogue between the instruments magnifies the expressive richness of the work and reveals its profoundly spiritual dimension. Between echoes of the past and contemporary questions, this reinterpretation invites us to rediscover Vivaldi in all his evocative and poetic force.

Giovanni Legrenzi

Events

Upcoming events

Dec 9, 2025

The Four Seasons · Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier

Past events

Oct 18, 2025

The genius dimension of Giovanni Legrenzi · Les Talens Lyriques

Sep 8, 2024

Baroque Music Montana · Tippet Rise Art Center

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