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February 27, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello (ca. 1690 to 1758) grew up in Bologna and spent much of his career at the courts of Munich and Stuttgart. His Concerti a tre are richly imaginative trio sonatas that combine the intimacy of chamber music with the brilliance of concerto-style violin writing. Each work functions like a concerto for two […]

February 28, 2026 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Girolamo Frescobaldi is a major figure in the history of keyboard music with a widespread and lasting influence on his contemporaries and later generations. This recital of 17th century music will explore the colorful, expressive style of Frescobaldi and its echoes in the works of Johann Jakob Froberger, Louis Couperin, and Michelangelo Rossi. Wesley Leffingwell […]

February 28, 2026 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm – Centering Latin American folklore and historical legends, the second installment of Les Délices’ three-year Mythology Project explores the connections between heaven and earth. Acclaimed soprano Estelí Gomez joins Les Délices for ecstatic cantatas by José de Torres and José Durán, 17th and 18th century music preserved in missions from Guatemala, Bolivia, and Peru, and “Soy […]

February 28, 2026 @ 4:30 pm – 6:15 pm – Música Antigua de Albuquerque will present “Creatures Great & Small,”  a concert of rarely-heard medieval and Renaissance music performed with voices and period instruments.  This program will be about real and imagined beasties in music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and will include selections from all across Europe.  Some of the more fantastic animals […]

February 28, 2026 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Le donne musicali: Italian women’s music from the baroque Feb. 27 – Mar.1 Tempesta di Mare | Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra  Vocal and instrumental works by female composers Agata Cantora della Pietà and Anna Bon, plus music by Vivaldi, Gasparini and Porpora for named women of the Venetian Ospedali, the network of baroque-era orphanages that churned […]