Chanticleer & ACRONYM

GREAT VOCALISTS
Returning to Merkin Hall after sold-out performances last season, the Grammy-winning vocal ensemble hailed as “the world’s reigning male chorus” by The New Yorker teams up with the acclaimed early music string ensemble ACRONYM for an evening of music by Italian Baroque composer Giovanni Valentini. The program includes modern-day premieres of some of Valentini’s most thrilling vocal and instrumental works, nearly all of it unheard since the seventeenth century. Rivaling his contemporaries Heinrich Schutz and Claudio Monteverdi, Valentini’s compositions are full of bold harmonic shifts and rhythmic daring: unrelated keys and extreme chromaticism appear from nowhere, while obscure time signatures keep musicians and audiences on their toes. 

PROGRAM
All works by Giovanni Valentini (c.1582–1649)

Chanticleer
Adoramus te Christe et Benedicimus Tibi
Litaniae Lauretanae B.V.

ACRONYM
Canzona a3 in G
Canzona Ottava a5 1609
Sonata a5 in A minor

Chanticleer + ACRONYM
Haec est Virgo Sapiens
Iniquos Odio Habui
Litaniae Lauretanae Concertate Beatae Virginis
Litaniae Lauretanae Conventus Cremsiriensis
Litaniae Lauretanae in Tripla
Litaniae Lauretanae in Tripla 2di. Toni
Litaniae Lauretanae Super Battudas
Mensa Sacra
O Vos Omnes
Veni Sponsa Christi

Leadership support for Great Vocalists is made possible by The Barbara Bell Cumming Charitable Trust.

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