Release date: September 2011 Maurice Saylor’s playfully brilliant setting of Lewis Carroll’s poem: “The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits” Gisele Becker conducts Cantate, the Snark Ensemble,… read more →
Release date: July 2012 Andrew Earle Simpson’s visionary wedding oratorio celebrates love across history and world traditions. Gisèle Becker leads Cantate and chamber ensemble, soprano Lisa Edwards-Burrs, tenor Joseph Dietrich,… read more →
A BRITTEN HOLIDAY spotlights seasonal gems from the composer’s lesser-known repertoire. Highlights include the stunning Chorale after an Old French Carol and Christ’s Nativity, written when Britten was a student, a… read more →
Cantate concludes its year-long focus on Benjamin Britten with a festive look at the composer’s era through the lens of his correspondence with musical contemporaries. On the program will be… read more →
Our second concert, A Britten Holiday, features the seasonal favorite A Ceremony of Carols and gems from the lesser-known Britten repertoire explored on Cantate’s new CD A Britten Holiday, recently recorded at… read more →
A rare presentation of Britten’s edition of the Mozart Requiem. Plus: Cantata Misericordium, the composer’s take on the Good Samaritan tale, and Serenade for Tenor, Horns, and Strings. Friday, Nov 22,… read more →