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The mission of The Cambridge Society for Early Music, founded in 1952 by the noted harpsichordist and musicologist Erwin Bodky, is to entertain, enlighten, educate and, in general, promote the rich musical culture of five centuries of Western music from the Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century. Since 1980 CSEM’s Chamber Music by Candlelight concert series has brought distinguished international artists and ensembles to intimate and elegant venues in five towns around the greater Boston area. Come experience - up close! - the thrill of music from another world and time
Crossroads: Where Empires
Meet and Trade
Gut Reaction evokes Venice
in the 16th - 18th Centuries
Sarah Darling & Jesse Irons, violins
Jason Fisher, viola, & Michael Unterman, cello
Byron Schenkman, harpsichord
April 11-15, 2013
Venice in the Golden Age, 1600 to 1750, was the cultural center of Europe, fostering superb music, inspiring and life-affirming. CSEM evokes that era in a concert of sublime music played by Gut Reaction, a Boston-based string quartet-plus-harpsichord led by distinguished harpsichordist Byron Schenkman — a brilliant recording artist, co-founder of the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, and recipient of CSEM's Erwin Bodky Prize. The music includes Vivaldi and Monteverdi, two great composers who are popular in our own day. There will also be other masters who deserve to be better known: Rore, Legrenzi, Marini, Platti, Castello, Dalla Casa, and Rosenmueller, all virtuosos drawn to the magnificent church of San Marco. Gut Reaction plays them, with verve and grace, on period instruments with (of course!) gut strings. A convivial reception follows.
Thursday, A;ril 11, 8 PM - The First Religious Society, Carlisle
Friday, April 12, 8 PM - The Congregational Church of Weston
Saturday, April 13, 8 PM - The Salem Athenaeum
Sunday, April 14, 4 PM - Ascension Memorial Church, Ipswich
Monday, April 15, 7:30 PM - Christ Church, Cambridge
To see the list of pieces
for this concert,
click HERE.