Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Dec 17 2013

“An early Christ­mas gift — wrapped in baroque music

What would you like for Christmas?

How ‘bout Winnipeg’s fore­most baroque vocal ensemble and “Canada’s tiny, per­fect orches­tra” con­duc­ted by this country’s lead­ing inter­preter of choral and oper­atic repertoire?

Guest con­ductor David Fal­lis spe­cial­izes in the music of the baroque and clas­sical peri­ods — per­fect for this pro­gram of fest­ive early music treasures.

We will hear works from five 17th-century com­posers — three of them Italian, one French and one Czechoslovakian.

Buon Nat­ale! Joyeux Noël! Veselé vánoce!

Cur­ated by a friend, for friends

When you com­bine the MCO strings with the voices of Can­zona in the intim­ate acous­tic splend­our of West­min­ster Church, you get magic! And the magi­cian in charge of this pro­duc­tion is none other than local early music spe­cial­ist Eric Lussier.

After choos­ing a selec­tion of instru­mental works from the baroque lib­rary he donated to the MCO, Eric turned to Canzona’s Artistic Dir­ector Henry Eng­brecht, who recom­men­ded that the Zelenka Te Deum close the concert.

“I have yet to be dis­ap­poin­ted at a Can­zona con­cert … due in great part to the long­time expert musical dir­ec­tion and unflag­ging ded­ic­a­tion of Henry Eng­brecht” — Gwenda Nem­er­of­sky, Win­nipeg Free Press.”

From: http://www.themco.ca/concert/canzona-david-fallis/

The con­cert begins at 7:30 pm on Decem­ber 17th in West­min­ster United Church, 745 West­min­ster at Mary­land. Tick­ets are $28 for adults, $26 for seni­ors and $8 for stu­dents, includ­ing GST, at McNally Robin­son, the West End Cul­tural Centre (586 Ellice at Sherbrook), Organic Planet (877 West­min­ster Ave) or MCO’s Tick­et­line (204.783.7377).

Man­itoba Cham­ber Orches­tra
Anne Man­son, Music Dir­ector
Karl Stobbe, Con­cert­mas­ter
West­min­ster United Church
17 Decem­ber 2013

David Fal­lis, guest con­ductor
Can­zona — Henry Eng­brecht, Artistic Director

Francesco Ono­frio Man­fredini
Con­certo Grosso, Per Il San­tis­simo Natale

Marc-Antoine Char­pen­tier
Noel pour les instru­ments, H. 531

Arcan­gelo Corelli
Con­certo Grosso, Op. 6, No. 8
(‘Christ­mas Concerto’)

Pietro Loc­a­telli
Introdut­tioni Teat­rali, Parte Seconda, Op. 4, No. 4

Jan Dis­mas Zelenka
Te Deum, in D, ZWV 145

Con­cert spon­sor / Wawanesa Insur­ance
Print media spon­sor / Win­nipeg Free Press
Radio media spon­sors / CBC Radio 2 98.3, CBC Radio One 990,
Espace musique 89,9 and Golden West Radio