A screening of Crescendo's March 24, 2024 performance of Giacomo Carissimi's oratorio Jephte, and the 12-voice Mass L'Homme Armé. Recorded by Leszek Wojcik, filmed by Charlette Media on March 24, 2024 at Saint James Place in Great Barrington, MA.
A Q&A with Crescendo Artistic Director Christine Gevert will follow the screening.
Carissimi tells a dramatic Old Testament story in one of the first oratorios I music history: “Jephte.” This oratorio leaves nothing to be desired, as it presents the full spectrum of emotions in the voices of the singers and the instruments.
Carissimi’s twelve-voice mass L’Homme armé – a U.S. premiere – is based on the famous medieval tune The Armed Man, which is present in each of the five parts. It is the last one of more than 40 masses composed on this popular tune. Singers and instrumentalists are divided into three groups, creating a musical dialogue in the Venetian poly-choral style.
The performers are Crescendo Vocal Ensemble of thirty singers, with Pablo Bustos (Jephte), tenor, Christina Kay (Filia), Jordan Rose Lee and Sarah Fay, sopranos, Tuesday Rupp, alto, and Douglas Williams, bass. Accompanied by Crescendo’s Period Instrument Ensemble, of recorder, three viola da gambas, dulcian, harp, and the orbo, the production is directed by Crescendo’s Founding Artistic Director Christine Gevert from the organ and virginal.
Images by Stephen Potter.
1hr 18mins
Tickets $18 / Superstar Members $16
A percentage of all tickets sold for this screening will go to support the Crescendo Chorus.