'Servo d'Amore' concert at Glencairn Museum features polychoral voices and Baroque strings

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, solo-voice ensemble Les Canards Chantants joins forces with critically acclaimed Baroque string band ACRONYM to offer “Servo d’Amore”—Servant of Love—a rich and romantic program of chamber music on Saturday evening, February 13, in Glencairn Museum’s Great Hall.

The concert includes large-ensemble sonatas performed by ACRONYM on period Baroque instruments and a selection of Giovanni Valentini’s madrigals for voices and instruments, originally published in 1616. The event provides a rare opportunity to hear this incredible music performed live for the first time in four hundred years.

Valentini (c. 1582–1649), who was once kapellmeister (chapel or choir master) of the Holy Roman Empire, created these engaging and complex pieces with passionate poetry, intensely lush harmonies, infectious rhythms and extravagant instrumentation. As interpreted and presented by Les Canards Chantants and ACRONYM, listeners can expect Valentini’s madrigals to envelope them in the extremes of Renaissance color, emotion and virtuosity.

The concert begins at 8:00 pm (doors open at 7:30). General admission: $20 ($15 for Basic Members, free for Gold and Patron Members.) 1001 Cathedral Road, Bryn Athyn 19009. 267.502.2990 or www.GlencairnMuseum.org for details.