Under the leadership of Artistic/Executive Director, and internationally acclaimed soprano, Suzie LeBlanc, C.M. Early Music Vancouver (EMV) has been a much-loved, and vital contributor to Vancouver’s cultural scene for more than 50 years. EMV presents a packed performance calendar with 40+ live performances and digital concerts a year featuring some of the most renowned artists in the early music genre drawn from all parts of the globe.

Artists: Chloe Kim, violin; Jonathon Adams, baritone; Marie-Nadeau Tremblay, violin; Margaret Little, viola da gamba; Lucas Harris, theorbo; Avi Stein, keyboard

Emanating from seventeenth-century Italy, music of the “stylus phantasticus” was free and extravagant, marked by an uninhibited play of the compositional imagination. This programme shows the power and creativity of the fantastical style as it was taken up in the courts and chapels of Germany and Austria, featuring the stunning instrumental virtuosity of composers like Biber and Buxtehude alongside concerted psalm settings that treat the baritone voice with equal skill and imaginativeness. Filled with moving language and some of the best of the period’s musical fancy, these ancient songs of praise and supplication continue to speak with freshness and drama today.

This concert is generously supported by Sharon Kahn and Barrie MacFadden in honour of the Mary and Gordon Christopher Foundation.

PROGRAMME

Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
Ach Herr, wie ist meiner Feinde so viel

Dieterich Buxtehude (c1637-1707)
Sonata in A Minor BuxWV 272

Nicolaus Bruhns (1665-1697)
De Profundis clamavi

Heinrich Franz Ignaz von Biber (1644-1704)
Sonata no. 3 in F Major
Nisi Dominus

David Pohle (1624-1695)
Vox Domini super aquas