Period instrument conductor Václav Luks, an H+H audience favorite, offers a high-spirited program that’s sure to delight, keeping you on your figurative toes while he leads from his literal ones. After a cheerful Louise Farrenc overture and Beethoven’s tantalizingly dramatic Piano Concerto No. 3, Luks continues his tour through the Beethoven symphonies: This time, it’s …
The new season of Early Music Afternoons begins on Sunday, October 29, 2023, with a concert featuring music from the German baroque performed by recorder virtuoso Aldo Abreu together with Duo Maresienne (Carol Lewis, viola da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, baroque lute). The trio will play music by J.S. Bach, Baron, Telemann, Weiss, and Wassenaer. …
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The French music scene of the 1750s-60s was in great turmoil, with several factions fanatically fighting each other. A conservative group considered the old “grand” style of Jean-Baptiste Lully and his followers as the nec plus ultra and abhorred Jean-Philippe Rameau’s innovations. This did not hinder Rameau from becoming the most famous opera composer between …
Immerse yourself in Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre’s dramatic cantata about Jonah and the whale along with other vocal and instrumental works evoking themes of water by Vivaldi, Werner, Campra, and others. With soprano Teresa Wakim
Vincent Dumestre director and theorbo Eva Zaïcik mezzo soprano Imagine the Louvre, which now attracts visitors from across the globe, in the illustrious reigns of Henry IV, Louis XIII and the young Louis XIV. Versailles was still a hamlet and the seat of kings was embedded in the heart of Paris, between the murmuring Seine …
“Ecstatic Visions” is an exquisite program highlighting ecstasy in Baroque music featuring world-renowned soprano Sherezade Panthaki, oboe & recorder player Kathryn Montoya, and violinist Andrew Fouts, alongside Ars Lyrica’s critically acclaimed period orchestra. In-person and digital tickets available now! Soprano Sherezade Panthaki joins Ars Lyrica Houston for Handel’s "Silete venti," a spectacular solo motet for …
Alkemie Early Music Ensemble opens its 10th season with the first live concert of music from the BAFTA award-winning video game Pentiment, created by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Xbox. Curated, arranged, and recorded by Alkemie, the music of Pentiment was said by Gamereactor to “truly elevate the experience to a height normally reserved for angels …
Join 7HB and guest soloist Andrew Hatfield for 7HB’s season-opening Four Seasons with Seven Hills concert! Enjoy music inspired by bountiful harvests and cool, crisp autumn nights. In line with the concert’s theme, and with the holiday season quickly approaching, 7HB will be donating a portion of concert proceeds to Queen City Kitchen, a longstanding …
ANNA KISKACHI, one of today’s most creative and virtuosic harpsichordists, performs a dazzling program inspired by Stravinsky’s ‘Firebird’ ballet music. Delight in a riot of dance music spanning Bartok’s 20th century Romanian Dances, Handel’s beloved Suite VII Sarabande and Passacaille, Marchand’s sensual Chaconne, de Falla’s flaming ‘Fire Dance’ and Stravinsky’s wondrous ‘Danse Infernal’ which Anna's …
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Early Music Missouri's 2023-2024 Main Stage Series continues with a program of old and new music for recorder. Chicago Recorder Trio offers a program of music ranging from the Middle Ages into the 21st Century. Lisette Kielson, Mirja Lorenz and Patrick O'Malley bring recorders large and small to the stage, playing Baroque music by J.S. Bach, Johann Mattheson …
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We mark Bonfire Night with a musical journey through autumn in 17th-century England. As the nights grew longer, farmers brought in their harvest and turned their thoughts towards the many delights of Fall. Our program features a warming mix of songs about Martinmas and Guy Fawkes, autumnal tunes by Baldwin, Peerson, and Byrd, and high-spirited selections …
We mark Bonfire Night with a musical journey through autumn in 17th-century England. As the nights grew longer, farmers brought in their harvest and turned their thoughts towards the many delights of Fall. Our program features a warming mix of songs about Martinmas and Guy Fawkes, autumnal tunes by Baldwin, Peerson, and Byrd, and high-spirited selections …
In partnership with the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, Evanston Township High School, Evanston Arts Council, and 3Arts, the Bach & Beethoven Experience (BBE) will premiere The Story of Pa I Sha, composed by BBE Artistic Director Brandi Berry Benson. Inspired by Brandi’s 4th great grandmother Pa I Sha, this new musical work with …
In partnership with the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, Evanston Township High School, Evanston Arts Council, and 3Arts, the Bach & Beethoven Experience (BBE) will premiere The Story of Pa I Sha, composed by BBE Artistic Director Brandi Berry Benson. Inspired by Brandi’s 4th great grandmother Pa I Sha, this new musical work with …
Ian Pritchard, Director The phrase “army of generals” was used by the 18th century author Charles Burney to describe the splendid court orchestra at Mannheim, Germany, an orchestra coveted by Mozart. The Baroque Ensemble will perform galant orchestral music that was originally performed (or might have been performed) by this famous ensemble. The program will …
“Pizzazz!” Pizzazz! A virtuosic display of baroque fireworks awaits in a program of music by J.S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, Antoine Forqueray, and Louis-Toussaint Milandre. The days may be getting shorter, but this is a concert that will light up your late-autumn evening and fill it with…you’ve got it!…Pizzazz! The Performers Paul Primus, harpsichord and violin …
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Dr. Barbara Baird will perform the fifteen Two-Part Inventions and four of the Three-Part Inventions (Sinfonia) in this harpsichord recital and presentation about the fundamentals of playing in Baroque Style. The recital will be followed by time for demonstration of the harpsichord and hands-on exploration of the instruments for anyone in the audience who wishes. Piano students and teachers …
Legend relates that Johann Sebastian Bach exclaimed, ‘‘’Tis Prussian Blue! It fades easily!’’ when describing the music of his son Carl Philipp Emanuel. This was surely a teasing reference to the galant style, with its open musical textures and general avoidance of ‘’old-school’’ counterpoint. Our program of Bach and his sons offsets the contrapuntal wizardry …
Legend relates that Johann Sebastian Bach exclaimed, ‘‘’Tis Prussian Blue! It fades easily!’’ when describing the music of his son Carl Philipp Emanuel. This was surely a teasing reference to the galant style, with its open musical textures and general avoidance of ‘’old-school’’ counterpoint. Our program of Bach and his sons offsets the contrapuntal wizardry …
Grab your finest silk coat or gown, and the latest gossip column! We’re heading to the resort town of Bath, in Somerset, England. Enjoy a one-hour program that local 18th-century philanthropist Ralph Allen might have hosted: concertos by Handel, Corelli and Hellendaal; then, at magical golden hour, selections from Purcell's The Fairy Queen. Dapper Georgian …
Audiences love to hear any one of Bach’s iconic motets in a live performance, but to hear all of them in one evening is a revelation. Bach’s vocal-ensemble writing is legendary among singers, artfully bringing to life the rhetorical substance of his musical and theological convictions. A valuable part of Bach’s oeuvre, the motets together …
Fierce divas of the Italian baroque flex their musical muscles in this virtuosic program. Join soprano Amber Evans and viola da gambist Niccolo Seligmann for an exploration of the musical world of composer Barbara Strozzi and her contemporaries: Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Francesca Caccini, and Isabella Leonarda. Amber Evans’ rapid-fire coloratura and liquid legato will be …
A concert of Baroque music for strings by Italians who lived or traveled outside of Italy. Music of Handel, Geminiani, Porpora, and others.
A Room of Mirrors: Music by d’India, Marini, Frescobaldi, Calestani, and Gregori Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, director & tenor Zachary Wilder, tenor Join a duo of ideally matched tenors as Emiliano Gonzalez Toro and Zachary Wilder bring their racy and voluptuous timbres to some of the most beautiful songs and duets of the early Italian Baroque repertoire. Making …
Choir Director Ivars Taurins has curated some of his favourite works in this soundscape of 17th- and 18th-century European choral music—from the breathtaking originality of Monteverdi to the luminosity of Bach. Within this spectrum, the choir and orchestra explore a rich palette of contrasts including the singular styles style of Purcell and Salamone Rossi, and the exuberance of Lalande and Lotti. …
In a special program that demonstrates the depth and power of the First Viennese School’s masters, Sarasa performs Beethoven’s soul-searching Cavatina from his late Op. 130 string quartet, revels in Haydn’s unstoppable inventiveness in his Op. 54 No. 2 quartet, and exalts in Schubert’s sublime cello quintet in C major. With Zenas Hsu, Amy Galluzzo, …
A concert of Baroque music for strings by Italians who lived or traveled outside of Italy. Music of Handel, Geminiani, Porpora, and others.
Part of the Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church Fall 2023 Byrd Celebration Pre-Concert Lecture 6:30 pm Byrd - Mass for Four Voices Weelkes - Ninth Service Motets and Anthems In the first concert of our 27th Season, Join Polyhymnia as we commemorate two very different and very English composers who both died in 1623, William …
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Two Bachs: London & Berlin Music, Art & Patronage in the Age of Enlightenment Followed by a Buffet of English & German Cheeses with Mulled Wine The Artists: Sylvia Berry, Fortepiano Krista Bennion Feeney & Francis Liu, Baroque Violin Mark Kramer, Baroque ‘Cello The Program: Carl Heinrich Graun, Trio Sonata in D MajorAv:XV:23 Carl Philipp …
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Saturday, November 18, 2023 • 7:30pm Calvary Episcopal Church With live narration by Emmy Award winner (and television and radio personality) Robert Aubry Davis, this program features Scottish, French, Italian, and English music, illustrating the different periods in the life of Mary, Queen of Scots. Danielle Svonavec soprano Mindy Rosenfeld winds Mary Anne Ballard viols Larry Lipkis viols and …
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Shira Kammen vielle, harp and guest music director Jolle Greenleaf soprano Elisa Sutherland mezzo soprano James Reese tenor Our investigation into French music is rooted in the late medieval traditions of nascent gallic polyphony. Fortune and her wheel brought a wealth of music and art centered around the constant life changes that occur at the …
Cantata Collective, San Francisco's only professional ensemble dedicated to the performance of the cantatas of JS Bach, is pleased to offer the second FREE concert of our seventh season on November 19th at 5pm, at St Mary Magdalen Church in Berkeley. We will be presenting BWV 8 & 113, with our stellar soloists; Jennifer Pauline, …
In a special program that demonstrates the depth and power of the First Viennese School’s masters, Sarasa performs Beethoven’s soul-searching Cavatina from his late Op. 130 string quartet, revels in Haydn’s unstoppable inventiveness in his Op. 54 No. 2 quartet, and exalts in Schubert’s sublime cello quintet in C major. With Zenas Hsu, Amy Galluzzo, …
For the 170th consecutive year, H+H reignites your sense of wonder and joy with the greatest story ever told in song. Our new Artistic Director Jonathan Cohen leads this centuries-old Boston tradition. Joining our resplendent orchestra and chorus are a slate of spectacular soloists, including countertenor John Holiday, “one of the finest countertenors of his …
Dr. Barbara Baird will perform the fifteen Two-Part Inventions and four of the Three-Part Inventions (Sinfonia) in this harpsichord recital and presentation about the fundamentals of playing in Baroque Style. The recital will be followed by time for demonstration of the harpsichord and hands-on exploration of the instruments for anyone in the audience who wishes. Piano students and teachers …
Rembrandt Chamber Musicians, Chicago’s flagship ensemble covering the full spectrum of classical chamber music, will present a “Holiday Baroque” program December 1 and 3, 2023, that opens with a shimmering showpiece for soprano and trumpet: George Frideric Handel’s aria “Let the Bright Seraphim” in D Major from his oratorio “Samson,” HWV 57. Antonio Vivaldi’s charming …
The Tempesta di Mare | Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra Chamber Players present Unmatched Dec. 1, 2023 at 7:30 PM | Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill Dec. 2, 2023 at 7:30 PM | Trinity Center for Urban Life “Starting in the 16th century adventurous composers began to assemble and write for mixed, or unmatched ensembles …
Exquisite music to welcome a season of peace, light and joy. Baroque and traditional music from Bolivia, Italy, and Spain. Animated concertos from Bolivia set the tone for a spirited program featuring rustic sounds of “pifferari” (wandering musicians at Christmas time), Spanish dance rhythms, original improvisations, and a lively Galician carol. Highlighting the talents and …
Join us for a festive holiday celebration with one of America’s most beloved ensembles! This vocal and instrumental program features carols and dance tunes from the British Isles, Germany, France, Spain, and the New World.
Timeless. Joyful. Lustrous. Boston Baroque celebrates the holiday season with the GRAMMY® -nominated, complete version of Handel’s Messiah, 42 years after presenting the first Boston period-instrument performances of the complete oratorio in 1981. Discover all the glorious delights of this cherished yearly musical tradition with our stellar orchestra, chorus, and world-renown soloists. This event will …
The Tempesta di Mare | Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra Chamber Players present Unmatched Dec. 1, 2023 at 7:30 PM | Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill Dec. 2, 2023 at 7:30 PM | Trinity Center for Urban Life “Starting in the 16th century adventurous composers began to assemble and write for mixed, or unmatched ensembles …
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