Caramoor: Sherezade Panthaki and The Helicon Ensemble: First introduced to Caramoor audiences in 2018’s Atalanta, soprano Sherezade Panthaki is an acknowledged star in the early-music world. With a lush and commanding voice, she remains “wonderfully agile, riding her rapid vibrato up and down passagework and trills with admirable fluency” (The Wall Street Journal). In this program featuring both instrumental and vocal pieces, Panthaki is joined by the Helicon ensemble. Recognized by The New York Times as “an important early music organization,” Helicon seeks to explore period chamber music at a high level.

Caramoor: Sherezade Panthaki and The Helicon Ensemble Program

Love and Revenge: The Baroque Diva
Vivaldi Concerto for Strings in G Minor, RV 157
Vivaldi “Gelosia, tu già rendi l’alma mia” from Ottone in villa
Handel “V’adoro, pupille” from Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Handel Chaconne (Terpsichore)
Graupner “Agitato da Tempeste” from Dido, Königen von Carthago
Kapsperger “Toccata Arpeggiata” from, Libro primo d’intavolatura di chitarrone
Vivaldi Trio Sonata in D Minor, RV 63 (Variations on “La Follia”)
— Intermission —
Purcell Suite from Dido and Aeneas
Jacquet de la Guerre Trio Sonata in D Major
Clerambault Scene from Medée
Duphly “La Fourqueray” and “La Médée” from Troisième livre de pièces de clavecin
Handel Sarabande, “Treulose Mensch”, and “Kochet ihr Adern” from Almira

Caramoor’s Rosen House Music Room

The intimate 170 seat Music Room, in Caramoor’s historic Rosen House, is used for musical performances. From fall to spring they offer  chamber performances, recitals, opera, acoustic American roots music, jazz, American songbook, and lectures. The Music Room is available to rent for private events.

The majestic Music Room includes Renaissance furniture and architectural elements such as the intricately carved coffered ceiling from a house in Lecce, Italy. It also features a pair of pink marble twisted columns from Verona, once in the collection of William Randolph Hearst. Other notable collections include Urbino maiolica, tin glazed earthenware for Italy and works by Della Robbia and Old Masters. Don’t miss the magnificent Franco-Flemish Tapestry titled “The Holy Family.” Finally, from a slightly later period, our 18^th-century needlework chairs delight Music Room visitors.