Bozeman Magazine

In celebration of their album release, Baroque Music Montana tours their album program “I Melt Like Snow in the Sun of Your Beauty” with concerts across the state. The program features passionate sacred and profane love songs from the early 1600s with Portland-based soprano Arwen Meyers, along with instrumental flights of fancy performed by Carrie Krause on baroque violin, John Lenti on theorbo, and Nate Helgeson on dulcian, a precursor to the bassoon. Repertoire includes an aching lament by Palestrina, charming woodsy love songs by Marini, a fantasia by Selma - one of the first solo pieces written for early bassoon, Marini’s “Due Corde” - the first violin sonata written with notes to be played simultaneously on multiple strings, and ending with “Ed è pur dunque vero” - a madrigal by Monteverdi, the first composer to depict war, anger, and emotions of all kinds in music and whose compositional language changed music forever. Baroque Music Montana’s second album was recorded by invitation at the esteemed Tippet Rise Arts Center last November in the acoustically exceptional Olivier Music Barn, with engineer Jeremiah Slovarp of Jereco Studios. Early release CD, vinyl, and digital copies are available through the BaMM website, with public release January 8. https://baroquemusicmontana.org/