Stabat Mater, Pianto della Madonna This presentation of the Pianto della Madonna settings of Monteverdi and G. F. Sances was paired with Pergolesi's immortal Stabat Mater setting, and was performed on March 18 and 20, 2022 in the St. Martin's Kirche in Zipplingen, Germany as well as in the Deutschordensmünster in Heilbronn, Germany.
Sandra Röddiger-Soprano Robert Corwe, Soprano/Alto Katrin Ziegler, Baroque Cello Michael Eberth, Organo Portativo
In 2016, the four hundredth anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, we were happy to bring a concert of soprano duets, male and female, to the Festival of European Church Music in Schwäbisch Gmünd as well as the Konzerte Wehrheim. Taking as a point of departure the prototypical star cross'd lovers, Romeo and Juliet, we have assembled a program of unhappy lovers, from Monteverdi's Nero and Poppea to Zingarelli's Romeo e Giulietta, making stops along the way for Purcell's Dido, Handel's Cesare and Cleopatra and others, less well known to history, but just as beautifully composed. The highlight will be the, to the best of our knowledge, first ever modern performances of Johann Ernst Galliard's wonderful duo chamber cantata, 1728's Hymn of Adam and Eve, from the fifth book of John Milton's Paradise Lost.
We are delighted to be joined by soprano Annette Fischer, of Vienna for these concerts: our Dido, our Juliet, and our Eve.
July 3, 2016: 19:00. Evangelische Kirche Am Rathaus 61273 Wehrheim
A review of this concert in the Taunus Zeitung can be found here.
July 19, 2016: 20:00. Augustinuskirche Gemeindehausstraße 7 73525 Schwäbisch Gmünd
Orpheus with his Lute
Also a part of our celebration of the works of Shakespeare, Robert and Sigrun are presenting an intimate evening of Lute Songs as well as solo pieces for the lute actually played and sung in Shakespeare's plays, often during his lifetime, combined with other songs of the same, late Elizabethan/early Stuardian theatrical genre. Composers represented include John Dowland, John Danyel, Thomas Morley and Robert Johnson.
July 22, 2016: 20:00 Alte Nikolaikirche am Römerberg Frankfurt am Main
ABRAMO (1731) Pietro Tosi
This was our first full-length dramatic work--the modern premiere of Tosi's late-in-life Lenten oratorio, performed as the closing concert of the 2020 Festival für Alte Musik in Aalen. The modern performing edition was prepared from the two surviving manuscripts by Dr. Robert Crowe. Many thanks to Dr. Sandra Röddiger and Dr. Ralf Kurek for making this performance possible.
September 20, 2020.
Abramo -- Mark Adler, tenor Sara -- Annette Fischer, soprano Isacco -- Julia Böhme, alto L'angelo -- Robert Crowe, soprano
Michael Eberth, Organ, Cembalo and Musical Direction + Violins, Viola, Cello, Bass
Review "Sensationelles Finale mit 'Abramo' from the Schwäbische Post here. TANTI AUGURI, BARBARA!
In honour of Barbara Strozzi's 400th Birthday (1619-1677), Lux et Umbrae will be joined by guest soprano Sandra Röddiger and guest viola da gamba player Shen-Ju Chang for a Mother's Day concert of Barbara's music at the Villa Stützel in Aalen, Germany.
May 12, 2019.
Sandra Röddiger-Soprano Robert Crowe-Soprano Shen-Ju Change-Viola da Gamba Sigrun Richter-Theorbo
DOWLAND AND FRIENDS (AND ENEMIES)
January 17, 2016 19:30 pm, at the Festeburgkirche in Frankfurt am Main, A concert of John Dowland and his Contemporaries with Lux et Umbrae: with Sigrun Richter, laute and Michael Eberth, Cembalo, as part of the Festburgkonzerte. Highlights: John Dowland's "Flow my tears" and "In darkness let me dwell" John Danyel's "Like as the Lute" and "Mrs. M. E., Her er funerall teares." Nicolas Lanier's "Hero's Complaint" Also solo works for cembalo and lute by John Bull and Giovanni Kapsberger and, naturally, by Dowland.
