Oberlin College and Conservatory

Guest Recital: Paul O'Dette, lute

Friday, October 7, 2016 at 8:00pm to 10:00pm

Kulas Recital Hall, Conservatory Central Unit
77 West College Street, Oberlin, OH 44074

A guest recital by Paul O'Dette, lute.

 

Program:

Up Tails All                                                                                 Anonymous

I cannot keep my wife at home        

Robin is to the Greenwood Gone

John come kiss me now

 

Pavan & Galliard                                                             Daniel Bachelar

Mounsieur’s Almaine  

 

 

The Rowallen Lute Book                                                               Rowallen

         I never knew I loved thee        

         Corne Yards        

         The Gypsies Lilt

         A Scots Tune

         Another Scots Tune

 

 

Omnino Galliard                                                                  John Johnson

A Pavan to Delight         

A Galliard to Delight

Carman’s Whistle

 

 - Intermission -

 

A Fancy (5)                                                                         John Dowland

A Pavin        

The King of Denmark’s Galliard

A Fancy (6)

 

Farewell

 

The Lady Laiton’s Almaine

Lachrimae

The Frog Galliard

Alo

Fantasie (1)

 

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Paul O’Dette has been described him as “the clearest case of genius ever to touch his instrument” (Toronto Globe and Mail). One of the most influential figures in his field, O’Dette has helped define the technical and stylistic standards to which 21st century performers of early music aspire. In doing so, he helped infuse the performance practice movement with a perfect combination of historical awareness, idiomatic accuracy, and ambitious self-expression. His performances at the major international festivals in Boston, Vienna, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich, Prague, Milan, Florence, Geneva, Madrid, Barcelona, Tokyo, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Melbourne, Adelaide, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Berkeley, Bath, Montpellier, Utrecht, Bruges, Antwerp, Bremen, Dresden, Innsbruck, Tenerife, Copenhagen, Oslo, Cordoba, etc. have often been singled out as the highlight of those events.

O’Dette is also active conducting Baroque operas. His recent recording of Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers with the Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble won a Grammy for Best Opera Recording of 2014, as well as an Echo Klassik Award in the same category. In 1997 he led performances of Luigi Rossi’s L’Orfeo at Tanglewood, the Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF), and the Drottningholm Court Theatre in Sweden with Stephen Stubbs. Since 1999 they have co-directed performances of Cavalli’s Ercole Amante at the Boston Early Music Festival, Tanglewood, and the Utrecht Early Music Festival, Provenzale’s La Stellidaura Vendicata at the Vadstena Academy in Sweden, Monteverdi’s Orfeo and L’Incoronazione di Poppea for Festival Vancouver, Lully’s Thésée, Conradi’s Ariadne (Hamburg, 1691), Mattheson’s Boris Goudenow, Lully’s Psyché, Monteverdi’s Poppea, Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Steffani’s Niobe, and Handel’s Almira for the Boston Early Music Festival. Their recording of Ariadne was nominated for a Grammy as Best Opera Recording of 2005, Thésée in 2007, and Psyché in 2008. Both Lully recordings were also nominated for Gramophone awards. Their most recent opera recording, Niobe, was awarded a Diapason D’or de l’année, an Echo Klassik Award, and the prestigious Jahrespreis der Deutschenschallplattenkritik. O’Dette has guest directed numerous Baroque orchestras and opera productions on both sides of the Atlantic.           

O’Dette is professor of lute and director of early music at the Eastman School of Music and artistic director of the Boston Early Music Festival.

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