ENSEMBLE CAPRICE — Hallelujah and trumpets! The splendor of Handel’s music

First Church of Christ, Scientist Victoria 1205 Pandora Avenue, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Hallelujah and trumpets! The splendor of Handel’s music The third in our series of concerts with this exciting ensemble, led by the irrepressible Matthias Maute. This time, the music of Handel is featured, including his Anthem for the Foundling Hospital.   Program: George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) Ode for the anniversary of the Queen Anne Eternal […]

Tasso & Wert

First Church in Cambridge, Congregational 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Saturday, March 23, 2024, 8:00 PM First Church in Cambridge, Congregational (11 Garden Street, Cambridge) Tickets $10-$87 https://www.blueheron.org/concerts/season25/tasso-wert/ Blue Heron’s multi-season exploration of the Italian madrigal continues with a new program featuring settings of dramatic scenes by Torquato Tasso, with music by the great Giaches de Wert and others, and dramatic recitation by speakers Alessandro Quarta (in […]

Music Before 1800 presents: Mali Before 1800 with Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper

Corpus Christi Church (NYC) 529 West 121st Street, New York, United States

A Collaboration with the World Music Institute Ballaké Sissoko kora Derek Gripper guitar Malian virtuoso Ballaké Sissoko has taken over the mantle of the greatest touring kora player. Derek Gripper is South Africa’s leading guitarist whose love of the kora set him transcribing and recording some of its greatest works, changing the face of classical […]

Folk Meets Baroque

Our full chamber orchestra is joined by folk-music instrumentalists to explore the rich common ground shared by traditional folk and Baroque music, with selections spanning Europe and the Americas. April 4-5 in Metro Denver venues.

Carolina Pro Musica: A Global Experience

St. Mark's Lutheran Church (Charlotte) 1001 Queens Rd, Charlotte, NC, United States

A concert of songs and dances from Europe, the New World, and The  Far East. Enjoy music in other languages from a rota (round) in middle English, a virelai in early French, a song from 16th c. China, a Brazilian modinha as well as familiar songs. Hear songs from the 16th c. that were popular […]

$8 – $16

Early Music Missouri presents “At Court & Coffee House—J. S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti 4 & 5 and Coffee Cantata” at East Central College

St. Peter's Episcopal Church (St. Louis) 110 North Warson Road, St. Louis, MO, United States

Early Music Missouri (EMMo) presents “At Court & Coffee House” with three of Johann Sebastian Bach’s best-known secular pieces, the virtuosic Brandenburg Concerti 4 and 5 and the charming Coffee Cantata, at East Central College in Union, Missouri. EMMo regulars Arianna Aerie (soprano), Jeffrey Ballard (tenor) and Kevin Warner (bass) will sing the cantata, and […]

$10

BACH B MINOR MASS

Boston Symphony Hall 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA, United States

Feel your heart skip a beat as the first chords of Bach’s choral masterpiece transform Symphony Hall into a cathedral. Then, buckle up for two hours of the master’s lush harmonies and intricate orchestral writing, performed with H+H’s trademark vigor on the period instruments Bach intended. Our friend and frequent guest conductor Masaaki Suzuki returns […]

Range

Jordi Savall & Hespèrion XXI: Le Nuove Musiche

Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory 30 Gainsborough St., Boston, United States

Jordi Savall & Hespèrion XXI Friday, April 5, 2024 | 8PM NEC's Jordan Hall, Boston, MA VIRTUAL PREMIERE: Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 8pm (ET) Available to watch until May 4, 2024 at 11:59pm (ET) Le Nuove Musiche: The Baroque Revolution in Europe (1560–1660) For more than a half century, Jordi Savall has established himself as one of […]

$20 – $90

Parker Ramsay harp & harpsichord Arnie Tanimoto viola da gamba: In the Court of the King – Music of Bach and Marais

Hicks Memorial Chapel 616 N Highland Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Saturday, April 6 • 7:30pm Hicks Memorial Chapel, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Music from courts of 17th and 18th Century Europe showing the world in which viol virtuoso and composer Marin Marais lived, and his influence on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Parker Ramsay harp and harpsichord Arnie Tanimoto viola da gamba

$20 – $45

Early Music Missouri presents “At Court & Coffee House—J. S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti 4 & 5 and Coffee Cantata”

St. Peter's Episcopal Church (St. Louis) 110 North Warson Road, St. Louis, MO, United States

Early Music Missouri brings its 2023 – 2024 season to a close with three of Johann Sebastian Bach’s best-known secular pieces: the virtuosic Brandenburg Concerti 4 and 5 and the charming Coffee Cantata, a comic musical story of an overbearing father and his over-caffeinated daughter. EMMo regulars Arianna Aerie (soprano), Jeffrey Ballard (tenor) and Kevin […]

$20

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