Undaunted by the
restrictions of the current corona virus situation, the Jerusalem Baroque
Orchestra is opening its 2020-2021 concert season with yet another Vocal
Fantasy Festival. Traditionally a summer event, this year’s festival will be
taking place in the Autumn and will be presented online. Taking place from
October 27th to 31st, the festival, directed by JBO founder, harpsichordist and
conductor David Shemer, will offer five days of
concerts, master classes and talks that will be transmitted live from various
Jerusalem locations. All the programs will have the human voice as their main
focus.
The central work of
the festival will be the Israeli premiere of one
of Handel’s early works (composed before the composer was 20) - the St. John
Passion, in a performance directed by David Shemer, with singers Yeela Avital, Liron
Givoni, Alon Harari, Hillel Sherman, Doron Florentin and Noam Levenstein. In
another program - “Handel’s Divas” - Meitar Opera Studio singers Inbal Brill
and Karina Radzion will be joined by actor Itzik Cohen-Patilon to deliver the
amusing story of the rivalry between Handel and Giovanni Bononcini, as well as
that of two Italian prima donnas performing in London in opera productions of
both composers.
In
“From Johann to Hans”, we will hear soprano Yeela Avital, recorder-player Inbar
Solomon and other musicians performing chorales and other works of Bach in the
unique arrangements by the Jewish-Peruvian composer Hans Lewitus, in addition
to works of the Spanish Renaissance and music from South America. The Guy Ben
Hinom Choir will join JBO players in “Collection”, a program of original
music led by JBO 1st ‘cellist Orit Messer-Jacobi. This concert will also
include instrumental works of the Italian Renaissance. The 2020 Choral Fantasy
Festival will sign out with a concert of music of late French Baroque works, in
which JBO 1st violinist Noam Schuss will lead her fellow musicians and soprano
Daniela Skorka in instrumental- and vocal works of the sophisticated musical
repertoire performed at the court of Louis XIV, here represented by François
Couperin and Louis-Nicolas Clérambault..
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