The San Diego Early Music Society is a non-profit organization founded to showcase the musical treasures of Europe’s medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, as performed on period instruments and in accordance with historical practice. The Society was established in 1981 and has presented concerts in churches, small halls, museums, and homes — settings for which the music was composed.
St. James by the Sea – 8pm "Pergolesi Transformed: the Bach/Pergolesi Psalm 51" |
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I would sooner part with one of my digits than with [Kikby’s] rendition of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater… (Lansing McLoskey, Boston Early Music News) If there’s a better countertenor in the world than Daniel Taylor, he keeps himself well hidden. (Richard Todd in the Ottawa Citizen) …at that moment, [Musica Angelica] convinced me that there could be no |
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Soprano Dame Emma Kirkby, for many the personification of the early music
movement, returns to San Diego with countertenor Daniel Taylor, director of the
Theatre of Early Music, in a program including music of Handel and the Bach’s
setting of Psalm 51, Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden, BWV 1083, based on the
Stabat Mater of Pergolesi. These two superb soloists will perform with Musica
Angelica under the direction of Martin Haselböck.