For their first presentation of the 2017-18 season, pre-eminent New York-based early music ensemble TENET revisits its celebrated program “UNO+ONE: Italia Nostra,” performing repertoire from the widely-acclaimed 2013 album of the same name. With two evening performances at the Upper East Side’s Fabbri Mansion / House of the Redeemer on Friday, October 20, 2017, TENET will also take the program to venues in Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Savannah and Tucson.

At the heart of UNO + ONE are canzonette, arie and scherzi by Monteverdi, a composer with whom TENET is indelibly associated due to their groundbreaking annual performances of the towering Vespers of 1610 which they inaugurated in the work’s 400th anniversary year of 2010. Now honoring Monteverdi’s 450th birth anniversary (b. 1567), TENET’s imaginative program, which also features contemporaneous Italian masters, reflects the group’s hallmark qualities of innovative programming, virtuosic singing, and a particular command of repertoire from the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. TENET’s sopranos Jolle Greenleaf and Molly Quinn, together with the crème de la crème of the New York’s early music instrumentalists, offer inspired and idiomatic performances, “rendered with crystal-clear precision” (Gramophone).

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For further information about TENET, please visit http://www.tenet.nyc

PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

UNO+ONE: Italia Nostra – Claudio Monteverdi and his contemporaries
Claudio Monteverdi (1567 – 1643)
Chiome d’oro
Lidia spina del mio core
Si dolce è il tormento
Salomone Rossi (c. 1570 - 1630)
Sonata detta la Moderna from Il terzo libro di varie sonate (1623)
Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger (c. 1580 - 1651)
Toccata arpeggiata
Monteverdi (attributed)
Pur ti miro
Monteverdi
Damigella, tutta bella
Luigi Rossi (c. 1597 - 1653)
Occhi belli
Martino Pesenti (c. 1600 - c. 1648)
Ardo ma non ardisco
Giovanni Picchi (1572 – 1643)
Ballo ditto il Pichi (1621)
Domenico Maria Melli (c. 1572 – fl. 1610) Dispiegate guancie amati
Monteverdi
Ardo, e scoprir
Voglio di vita uscir
Dario Castello (c. 1590 - c. 1658)
Sonata Quarta from Sonate Concertante in Stil Moderno, Libro II, Venice, 1629
Monteverdi
Quel sguardo sdegnosetto
Zefiro torna

Thursday, October 19, 2017 – 7:00 pm
St. Peter’s Church
3 Westridge Road
Savannah, GA 31411

Friday, October 20, 2017 – 6:00 pm and 8:00 pm
Fabbri Mansion / House of the Redeemer
7 East 95th Street
New York, NY 10128

Saturday, October 21, 2017 – 7:00 pm
Pittsburgh Renaissance & Baroque
Synod Hall
125 North Craig Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Friday, November 10, 2017 – 7:00 pm
Pine Street Presbyterian Church
310 North 3rd Street
Harrisburg, PA 17101

Sunday, November 12, 2017 – 3:00 pm
Arizona Early Music Society
St. Philip’s In The Hills Episcopal Church
4440 North Campbell Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85718

TENET
Jolle Greenleaf artistic director and soprano
Molly Quinn soprano
Johanna Novom, Dongmyun Ahn violins
Adam Cockerham, Hank Heijink lutes
Jeffrey Grossman harpsichord