Music for Holy Week by the Bohemian composer Jan Dismas Zelenka is one of the greatest discoveries of the Baroque repertoire. It does not need to fear comparison with Bach. Award-winning young vocal soloists and the enthusiastic Diderot Ensemble make it a real treat.

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Darkness – Ensemble Diderot

Museum Ludwig

 Introduction 45 min before the performance.


Rebel Bach Händel

Opernhaus Zürich

Advent Concert III • Jan Fišer

Rudolfinum

AMUZ provides the perfect setting for this concert featuring Baroque trio sonatas. Georg Friedrich Händel and Antonio Vivaldi headline the program, with Jan Dismas Zelenka's surprisingly expressive music eagerly rediscovered. Like them, Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, born in Ghent, achieved acclaim as a chamber music composer in London. The recipe for Baroque trio sonatas is simple: two melodic instruments engage in dialogue, accompanied by chord and bass instruments. Virtuosity, contrapuntal refinement, and melodic richness make these works a delight for the ears.

Chamber music: Baroque trio sonatas

AMUZ (Festival van Vlaanderen Antwerpen)

**Event: LAMENT by the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra**

**Date & Time:** 7:30 PM, Wednesday, September 25, 2024  
**Venue:** Desautels Concert Hall, 150 Dafoe Road, UM Campus  
**Tickets:** Casual tickets go on sale June 15, 2024. Early bird packages available now.  
**Contact:** MCO Ticketline at 204-783-7377  

Join the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra for an evening of profound musical expression with the concert "LAMENT" on September 25, 2024. Under the baton of Anne Manson, with the visionary Cree-Métis baritone Jonathan Adams, flutist and composer Jessica McMann, and video artist Tyson Houseman, this performance promises to be a stirring journey through baroque and contemporary lamentations.

**Featured Works:**  
- Jessica McMann's "Lament for Small Souls"  
- Jan Dismas Zelenka's "Lamentation 1 for Holy Wednesday"  
- Jessica McMann's "For Nikâwiy"  
- Jan Dismas Zelenka's "Lamentation 2 For Maundy Thursday"  
- Jessica McMann's "Pekiwewina" and "Mountain Prairie"  
- John Adams' "The Wound Dresser"  

**Special Note:** The concert will guide the audience through discoveries, disruptions, and landscapes, leaving an indelible mark on your soul. The program is subject to change.

Don't miss this unique opportunity to experience the melding of baroque and urgent new musical lamentations in a performance that promises to be both visionary and transformative. Secure your tickets early to ensure your place at this remarkable event.

Lament Adams, Mcmann

Desautels Concert Hall

JS Bach had an extensive personal library, which provides a unique insight into what music he admired most. Two of the composers whose works he collected were Antonio Vivaldi and Jan Dismas Zelenka. While Bach never met Vivaldi in person, he clearly admired his works; he transcribed and arranged many of the Italian musician’s concertos for his own performances. Zelenka, on the other hand, was a personal friend of Bach; both had works by the other in their library and performed each others’ works. Rounding out the concert is a cantata by Caroline Shaw, the youngest composer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize, and a friend to many in our Chorale and Orchestra. To the Hands is inspired by the music of Buxtehude, another of Bach’s contemporaries and one who, like Vivaldi and Zelenka, was an important influence on the great master. Join us for a concert exploring some of the music Bach loved most.

Bach’s Library

Carmel Mission Basilica Museum

This one-to-a-part cantata series features the Festival soloists as the vocal consort. The Trauerode, BWV 198, is a masterpiece that features funeral music that provided the backbone for the St. Mark Passion. The Lamentations of Jeremiah by Zelenka are beautifully conceived, gorgeous melodies imbued with mysticism.

Cantatas and Lamentations

All Saints' Episcopal Church

The legendary John Butt returns to OBF with a spin on the iconic Festival Discovery Series. The Bach historian and recording artist breaks down and examines works heard in the Dresden court during the first half of the 18th century, including pieces from Johann Georg Pisendel, Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka, and the prolific Georg Philipp Telemann. The evening also features Bach’s BWV 191 - the only church cantata Bach wrote in Latin.

Discovery: Music of the Dresden Court

Beall Concert Hall

Founded 40 years ago, Concerto Köln is one of the outstanding protagonists of early music. It's fortunate that the journey to Duisburg is not far – and that the Duisburg Philharmonic also includes seasoned experts in musically informed performance practice. This creates ideal conditions for an extraordinary encounter in a concert that brings together well-known and lesser-known masterpieces by composers of the 17th and 18th centuries. Examples such as those of the Italian Antonio Vivaldi, the German George Frideric Handel, the Frenchman Jean-Philippe Rameau, the Bohemian Jan Dismas Zelenka, and the Englishman Henry Purcell demonstrate that all of Europe was shaken by the tremendous musical developments of this period. Some of these masters will perform "vocal specialties" – arias from operas or sacred works – or, like the piano pioneer Domenico Scarlatti, excerpts from their instrumental works. The name of countertenor Valer Sabadus, who is another guest from Cologne in Duisburg, shines as brilliantly as his voice.

From all over Europe

CityPalais

This chamber music concert spans a wide range from the Baroque to Viennese Classicism and Czech Modernism. Jan Dismas Zelenka and Johann Friedrich Fasch were contemporaries of Johann Sebastian Bach. Zelenka came from Bohemia and worked at the Saxon court in Dresden, while Fasch, from Thuringia, worked briefly in Prague. Ludwig van Beethoven composed his Cello sonata in G minor in Berlin and dedicated it to King Frederick William II of Prussia. The last two works on the program take us back to the Czech Republic. Leoš Janáček’s Pohádka tells the Russian fairy tale of Tsarevich Ivan and Princess Marya in a rhapsodic tone. Bohuslav Martinů initially studied in Prague and moved to Paris in 1923. There he absorbed various musical influences: the esprit of the Groupe des Six, the formal rigor of Igor Stravinsky and the nonchalance of jazz.

4. Chamber Music Concert

Liederhalle Cultural and Congress Center

The world of Baroque music will be brought to life in the Suk Hall by Czech Philharmonic bassoonist Martin Petrák and Ensemble Haydn. Their programme centres on the trio sonata—one of the era’s key forms—and includes both German and Czech compositions. A particular highlight will be Jan Dismas Zelenka’s masterful sonatas for woodwinds and continuo.

Jan Dismas Zelenka

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