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THE GALILEO PROJECT BACH · HANDEL · MONTEVERDI · PURCELL · RAMEAU · TELEMANN · VIVALDI Jeanne Lamon TAFELMUSIK BAROQUE ORCHESTRA THE GALILEO PROJECT BACH · HANDEL · MONTEVERDI · PURCELL · RAMEAU · TELEMANN · VIVALDI Jeanne Lamon Conceived and Programmed by Alison Mackay THE GALILEO PROJECT: MUSIC OF THE SPHERES A co-production with The Banff Centre Programmed and scripted by Alison Mackay Stage Direction: Marshall Pynkoski Production Designer: Glenn Davidson Production Assistant: Raha Javanfar Narrator: Shaun Smyth Projection Co-ordinator: Ben Chaisson Astronomy Consultant: Dr. John Percy TAFELMUSIK BAROQUE ORCHESTRA On Period Instruments Jeanne Lamon, Music Director Violin I: Jeanne Lamon, Patricia Ahern, Geneviève Gilardeau, Aisslinn Nosky Violin II: Julia Wedman, Thomas Georgi, Christopher Verrette, Cristina Zacharias Viola: Patrick G. Jordan, Elly Winer Violoncello: Christina Mahler, Allen Whear Double Bass: Alison Mackay Oboe: John Abberger, Marco Cera Bassoon: Dominic Teresi Lute / Guitar: Lucas Harris Harpsichord: Charlotte Nediger (CD tracks 3, 5-8, 10-11, 14-16, 20-22, 24-25), Olivier Fortin (CD tracks 1, 9, 17) The Galileo Project received its premiere in January 2009 at The Banff Centre, where it was co-produced in a residency. One of Tafelmusik’s most successful international exports, The Galileo Project has been seen in China (in Mandarin), Malaysia, Mexico (in Spanish), Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States and continues to attract invitations from presenters around the world. 2 THE GALILEO PROJECT: Music of the Spheres The Harmony of the Spheres I Biagio Marini Chapter 1 Passacaglia, from Op. 22 Opening Credits Claudio Monteverdi Chapter 2 Moresca, from Orfeo Antonio Vivaldi Concerto for 2 violins in A Major, Op. 3, no. 5 · Allegro Music from the Time of Isaac Newton · Largo Chapter 5 Chapter 3 Henry Purcell Rondeau, from Abdelazer Jean-Baptiste Lully Excerpts from Phaeton The Dresden Festival of the Planets Ouverture Suite des quatre saisons / Dances for the four seasons: Chapter 6 · Le Printemps /Spring (Ritournelle Act IV, sc i) Jean-Philippe Rameau · L’Été / Summer (Air pour les Egyptiens) Entrée de Jupiter / Entrance of Jupiter, from Hippolyte et Aricie · L’Automne / Fall (Air pour Triton et ses suivants) · L’Hiver / Winter (Air pour les peuples qui portent des présents à Isis) George Frideric Handel · Entrée des furies / Entrance of the furies Allegro, from Concerto grosso in D Major, Op. 3, no. 6 · Chaconne Jean-Philippe Rameau Entrée de Venus / Entrance of Venus, from Les surprises de l’Amour Music from the Time of Galileo Chapter 4 Georg Philipp Telemann Allegro, from Concerto for 4 violins in D Major Claudio Monteverdi Ritornello, from Orfeo Jan Dismas Zelenka Ciaccona, after Zefiro torna Adagio ma non troppo, from Sonata in F Major, ZWV 181/1 Tarquinio Merula Jean-Philippe Rameau Ciaccona Entrée de Mercure / Entrance of Mercury, from Platée Michelangelo Galilei Jean-Baptiste Lully Excerpt from Toccata in C Minor for solo lute, Air pour les suivants de Saturne / Air for the followers of Saturn, from from Il primo libro d’intavolatura di liuto Phaeton · Toccata in C Major for solo lute, from Il primo libro d’intavolatura di liuto Silvius Leopold Weiss · Improvised Allegro, from Concerto for lute in C Major (reconstructed by Lucas Harris) 3 The Harmony of the Spheres II Chapter 7 Johann Sebastian Bach Sinfonia „Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern“ “How brightly shines the morning star,” after BWV 1 Johann Sebastian Bach Sinfonia, after BWV 29 Chapter 8 Closing Credits Chapter 9 BONUS TRACK One: Jean-Philippe Rameau Entrance of Jupiter from Hippolyte et Aricie and George Frideric Handel Allegro from Concerto Grosso in D Major, Op. 3, no 6. Produced and directed by David New. and $ Tafelmusik Media Filmed at The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. Chapter 10 BONUS TRACK Two: Jean-Baptiste Lully Chaconne from Phaeton Produced and directed by David New. and $ Tafelmusik Media 2011 Filmed at The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. THE GALILEO PROJECT: Music of the Spheres Antonio Vivaldi George Frideric Handel Concerto for 2 violins in A Major, Op. 3, no. 5 17. Allegro, from Concerto grosso in 1. Allegro 2‘23 D Major, Op. 3, no. 6 1‘53 2. Largo 1‘42 Jean-Philippe Rameau Jean-Baptiste Lully 18. Entrée de Venus / Entrance of Venus, Excerpts from Phaeton from Les surprises de l’Amour 1‘03 3. Ouverture Suite des quatre saisons / Dances for the four seasons 2‘30 Georg Philipp Telemann 4. Le Printemps /Spring 1‘06 19. Allegro, from Concerto for 4 violins in D Major 1‘29 5. L’Été / Summer 1‘27 6. L’Automne / Fall 1‘32 Jan Dismas Zelenka 7. L’Hiver / Winter 1‘32 20. Adagio ma non troppo, from 8. Entrée des furies /Entrance of the furies 1‘10 Sonata in F Major, ZWV 181/1 2‘44 9. Chaconne 3‘47 Jean-Philippe Rameau Claudio Monteverdi 21. Entrée de Mercure / Entrance of 1 0. Ciaccona, after Zefiro torna 2‘30 Mercury, from Platée 1‘26 Tarquinio Merula Jean-Baptiste Lully 11. Ciaccona 2‘35 22. Air pour les suivants de Saturne Air for the followers of Saturn, from Phaeton 1‘20 Michelangelo Galilei 12. Toccata for solo lute, from Silvius Leopold Weiss Il primo libro d’intavolatura di liuto 3‘48 23. Allegro, from Concerto for lute in C major 4‘43 (reconstructed by Lucas Harris) Biagio Marini 13. Passacaglia, from Op. 22 4‘01 Johann Sebastian Bach 24. Sinfonia „Wie schön leuchtet der Claudio Monteverdi Morgenstern“ /“How brightly shines the 14. Moresca, from Orfeo 2‘14 morning star,” after BWV 1 3‘52 Henry Purcell Johann Sebastian Bach 15. Rondeau, from Abdelazer 1‘30 25. Sinfonia, after BWV 29 3‘39 Jean-Philippe Rameau 16. Entrée de Jupiter / Entrance of Jupiter, from Hippolyte et Aricie 0‘52 5 THE GALILEO PROJECT: Music of the Spheres The Galileo Project: Music of the Spheres was created as Tafelmusik’s contribution to having been to hear Handel play a concert, he complained that there was nothing to the United Nations International Year of Astronomy, marking 2009 as the 400th anniversary admire except the elasticity of his fingers. of Galileo’s first use of the telescope. Inspired by Canadian astronomer (and Tafelmusik audience member) Dr. John Percy, The Galileo Project uses music, words and images to explore the artistic, cultural and scientific world in which 17th- and 18th-century astronomers Handel made more of a sensation when he travelled from his adopted country of England lived and did their work. to his homeland of Germany in order to play at a glittering royal wedding celebration in Dresden in September of 1719. It was a month-long “Festival of the Planets,” with numerous Ancient civilizations depended on an awareness of the natural world for their livelihood and operas, balls, outdoor events and special concerts in honour of each of the known planets: survival, and enjoyed an intimate relationship with the daily, monthly and yearly patterns of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. the night sky. The Greeks and Romans identified characters in their mythological stories with planets and stars, and gave them names which we still use today. In Ovid’s story of There are detailed archives of the musical events at this festival and we know that not only Phaeton, the impetuous son of the sun-god Apollo, the minutes, hours, days and seasons Handel but also Georg Phillip Telemann, who was living in Frankfurt at the time, joined the are personified as denizens of the palace of the sun. renowned Dresden orchestra of Augustus the Strong, the employer of Jan Dismas Zelenka and Silvius Leopold Weiss, Europe’s most famous lutenist. Music by these four composers At Versailles, the French “Sun King,” Louis XIV, created his own palace of the sun, a has been chosen to reflect the virtuosity of the Dresden musicians at this event, and we building which strongly reflected the cosmology of the ancient world in its statuary and are particularly grateful to Lucas Harris for his reconstruction of the lost orchestral parts decoration. Jean-Baptiste Lully, the resident composer at Versailles, wrote some of his for the Allegro from Weiss’s Lute Concerto in C major. most magnificent music for his opera Phaeton, a product of the cultural inheritance which the world of baroque music received from the observations of ancient stargazers. The concert begins and ends with reflections on the ancient concept of the “Music of the Spheres,” thought to have been created by a heavenly ensemble of planets and stars Claudio Monteverdi’s Orfeo was composed in 1607 and published in Venice in 1609, the making music together as they move through space. Lorenzo’s speech from The Merchant year that Galileo travelled from Padua to Venice to offer his newly created telescope of Venice contains a beautiful expression of this idea: “There’s not the smallest orb as a gift to the Venetian Doge. Monteverdi and Galileo were exact contemporaries and which thou behold’st but in his motion like an angel sings, still quiring to the young-eyed near the end of their lives when Galileo arranged for Monteverdi to procure a beautiful cherubins.” Cremonese violin (probably built by Nicolo Amati) for his nephew Alberto Galilei, the son of Galileo’s brother Michelangelo, who composed the lute solo in our programme. The subject was treated extensively in Harmonices Mundi (The Harmony of the Worlds, Monteverdi, Tarquinio Merula and Biagio Marini were the most important composers in 1619) by Johannes Kepler, who used the formulas from his laws of planetary motion to Galileo’s world, and their works form a backdrop to his own account of his discovery of the derive musical intervals and short melodies associated with each planet. We perform moons of Jupiter and the events which followed. these short tunes on their own, and then weave them into Bach’s chorale tune Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (How brightly shines the morning star).
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