Classical music, Vancouver: Bringing medieval-era music to a new year
Beowulf: The Epic in Performance with Benjamin BagbyWhen: 7:30 p.m., Jan. 11Early Music Vancouver’s season has included several projects showcasing pioneers of the early music movement. Harpsichordist Ton Koopman visited for an important recital in the fall; so did cornetto player Bruce Dickey, who led a glorious performance of Venetian music for a sold-out crowd at the Chan Centre right before Christmas.
Bagby, who turns 70 in February, hails from the American Midwest but has enjoyed a truly international career, including years teaching at the Sorbonne. In Basel in 1977 he and singer Barbara Thornton founded the Sequentia Ensemble. Teaching, touring and recording made Sequentia the most renowned ensemble devoted to medieval music. It has recorded a remarkable swath of materials ranging over centuries and from diverse traditions.
Though Bagby is renowned as a scholar, he and his cohort have never been cloistered inhabitants of the ivory tower. On the contrary, they have performed everywhere in projects that included both live performance and recording. If Charms, Riddles and Elegies is anything like the group’s Fragments for the End of Time, heard here six years ago, listeners are in for a performance of remarkable diversity and power. For me, the conclusion of that production, an excerpt from a 10h-century Icelandic Edda, was one of those transcendent moments where a concert hall evaporates into time and space.
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