2024/25 main season concerts
Saturday, 09/21/2024 @ 4:00pm
Bask in the resonances experienced in Venice three hundred years ago.
Tomaso Albinoni was one of the most inspired Venetian violinists of the Baroque Era and composed music reflecting his free, expressive playing style.
Our program opens with the famous “Adagio,” which has been heard in countless film scores, but which was actually composed by an Italian musicologist who was inspired by an Albinoni manuscript that has since vanished.
SATURDAY, 10/19/2024 @ 4:00pm
Experience some of the most imaginative and heartfelt instrumental and vocal music from long lost voices of the past.
This program features wild, passionate, and reflective music by composers who were virtuosos in their time, expanding the possibilities of the instruments and voice. The 17th Century stream of consciousness instrumental music known as “stile moderno” is coupled with the dreamy harmonic wanderings of fantastic composers you’ve probably never heard, including Stradella, Matteis, Uccellini, Schmelzer, Jacchini, Weiss, and Merula.
saturday, 03/08/2025 @ 4:00pm
Definitely some of the most beautiful music ever written anywhere and at any time in history, this program features the work of four visionary women composers of the Baroque Era.
A superstar in her day, Barbara Strozzi published eight volumes of original secular music without support from the church or the nobility. The CORE ensemble performs her poetic vocal music alongside vocal and instrumental works by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Francesca Caccini, and Isabella Leonarda, whose Sonata Duodecima is a work full of surprises and rich harmonic depth.
SUNDAY, 04/06/2025 @ 4:00pm
This orchestral season finale truly has it all!
COmpass REsonance conductorless chamber orchestra opens the program with the Colorado premiere of “Overture for a Changing World,” composed by Music Director Zachary Carrettin during pandemic lockdown and featured in Colorado Concert Films (string quintet version). The orchestra continues with an 18th Century work of remarkable pathos, Maria Teresa Agnesi’s “Non piangete” (Don’t Cry), in what is likely the first performance of this aria ever in the State of Colorado. Soprano Mara Riley performs as soloist in this exquisite work of Petrarchan sonnetry.