BACH COLLEGIUM SAN DIEGO PRESENTS A FRENCH TWIST - À LA VIERGE at Grace Lutheran Church

BACH COLLEGIUM SAN DIEGO PRESENTS A FRENCH TWIST - À LA VIERGE

Music For the Virgin Mary and the Nativity

Bach Collegium San Diego (BCSD), one of the country’s leading baroque ensembles, celebrates the holiday season with a repertoire by Charpentier, Poulenc, and Villette covering a span of over three hundred years, yet connected aesthetically by way of musical sensuousness and elegance. BCSD welcomes Guest Director, Dana Marsh (Artistic Director of the Washington Bach Consort and Director of the Historical Performance Institute at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music).

CHARPENTIER 

Litanies de la Vierge à 6 H. 83

Magnificat pour 4 voix H. 79

Selections from Pour un reposoir H. 208

Selections from Missa Assumpta est Maria H. 11

VILLETTE

Hymn à la Vierge

Jesu dulcis memoria

O magnum misterium

POULENC

Hodie Christus natus est

Videntes stellam

magnum mysterium

Quem vidistis pastores

Salve Regina

Bach Collegium San Diego engages audiences with accessible, historically informed performances and educational programs featuring repertoire from the Renaissance, Baroque, and early Classical eras. The ensemble was founded in 2003 by Music Director Ruben Valenzuela to diversify the musical offerings of the San Diego community.