Pacific Baroque Festival 2024 – Concert #5

Entrance to the Alix Goolden Performance Hall is at 900 Johnson Street. The Balcony is closed for this event.

Songs of Love and War

Marc Destrubé, violin and artistic director
Kathryn Wiebe, violin
Natalie Mackie, viola da gamba
Marco Vitale, harpsichord and organ

​​This concert will feature selections from Claudio Monteverdi’s eighth book of “madrigals” (‘Madrigali guerrieri, et amorosi’), published in Venice in 1638 when he was seventy-one years old. They represent a significant evolution in musical style, in which Monteverdi sought to express a new emotion in music. Earlier composers had only conveyed two of man’s three major passions, the soft and the moderate; a third passion, agitation (‘stile concitato’), was missing in his view. For this program, the festival instrumental ensemble will be joined by a select group of emerging young singers, specialized in this beautifully expressive music.

Concert #1: Le Nuove Musiche 1: Naples and Rome – Frescobaldi to Scarlatti | February 27, 7:30pm, St. Barnabas Church *Not included in the Festival Pass

Concert #2: Le Nuove Musiche 2: Venice and Milan – Monteverdi to Verdi | February 28, 7:30pm, Christ Church Cathedral

Concert #3: Stile Moderno | February 29, 11:00am, Alix Goolden Performance Hall

Concert #4: Sonate Concertate | March 1, 7:30pm, Alix Goolden Performance Hall

Choral Evensong: Music Divine | March 3, 4:00pm, Christ Church Cathedral | Free Admission