Ensemble Lucidarium: Music for a Merchant: Sounds from Shylock's Venice at Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, York on Friday 8th July 2016

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Ensemble Lucidarium

Music for a Merchant: Sounds from Shylock's Venice

Part of the York Early Music Festival

Add to my Calendar 08-07-2016 19:30 08-07-2016 21:30 36 Ensemble Lucidarium Ensemble Lucidarium Enrico Fink voice, narrator Gloria Moretti, Anna Pia Capurso, Lior Liebovici voiceAvery Gosfield, Marco Ferrari Renaissance wind instrumentsFrancis Biggi plucked strings Élodie Poirier nyckelharpaMassimiliano Dragoni hammer dulcimer, percussion Music for a Merchant:Sounds from Shylock’s Venice What would Shylock have heard as he walked the streets of La Serenissima? Probably a lively mishmash of songs in Italian, Yiddish, Hebrew and Spanish, mixed with music that Jews and Gentiles alike would have enjoyed while celebrating baptisms, circumcisions and weddings. Perhaps he would have known Elias Bachur Levita, the exuberant Yiddish scholar, or maybe Leon Modena, the alchemist, poet, Rabbi, musician and pathological gambler. In this concert commemorating the 500th anniversary of the establishment of the Venetian Ghetto and the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, music from the Jewish Italian liturgy - Venetian laudi, sung poems by Elias Bachur Levita, dances, villanelle ebraiche and other carnival pieces join with readings from contemporary Venetian documents to conjure a colourful corner of the 16th-century world. “…a perfectly-oiled machine, where everyone knows exactly what to do, changing improvisational style from piece to piece with an expertise that left the public astounded and delighted” Massagero Veneto Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, York DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall
University of York
York
YO10 5DD
England

Friday 8th July 2016
7:30 PM

Programme

Anonymous – Songs in Italian, Hebrew, Yiddish and Spanish - with dances

Performers

Ensemble Lucidarium

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Programme Note

Ensemble Lucidarium

Enrico Fink voice, narrator Gloria Moretti, Anna Pia Capurso, Lior Liebovici voice
Avery Gosfield, Marco Ferrari Renaissance wind instruments
Francis Biggi plucked strings Élodie Poirier nyckelharpa
Massimiliano Dragoni hammer dulcimer, percussion

Music for a Merchant:
Sounds from Shylock’s Venice

What would Shylock have heard as he walked the streets of La Serenissima? Probably a lively mishmash of songs in Italian, Yiddish, Hebrew and Spanish, mixed with music that Jews and Gentiles alike would have enjoyed while celebrating baptisms, circumcisions and weddings. Perhaps he would have known Elias Bachur Levita, the exuberant Yiddish scholar, or maybe Leon Modena, the alchemist, poet, Rabbi, musician and pathological gambler. In this concert commemorating the 500th anniversary of the establishment of the Venetian Ghetto and the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, music from the Jewish Italian liturgy - Venetian laudi, sung poems by Elias Bachur Levita, dances, villanelle ebraiche and other carnival pieces join with readings from contemporary Venetian documents to conjure a colourful corner of the 16th-century world.

“…a perfectly-oiled machine, where everyone knows exactly what to do, changing improvisational style from piece to piece with an expertise that left the public astounded and delighted” Massagero Veneto

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