Directors Daniel Lee and Jeffrey Grossman are joined by a special guest to explore Bach’s violin and harpsichord sonatas in physical movement. Dance was a central part of culture in the baroque, from the courts to the home. While most of the music the Sebastians perform was not intended for actual baroque dancing, there’s no …

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TELEMANN Sinfonia Spirituoso in D Major VIVALDI Laudate pueri BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major BACH  Concerto in D Minor for Harpsichord VIVALDI  Bassoon Concerto in B-flat Major “La notte” BACH  Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, Cantata 51 Hélène Brunet, soprano Gabriel Benton, harpsichord Steven Marquardt, trumpet Nate Helgeson, bassoon Jeffrey Thomas, conductor Among …

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Superb flutist Emi Ferguson joins oboist Debra Nagy and Les Délices in chamber works from the eve of the French and Haitian Revolutions. Inspired by ideals of liberty and equality from abolitionist writings, the program includes a sonata by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the late-18th-century Black composer and violinist, and pieces by Boccherini and …

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TELEMANN Sinfonia Spirituoso in D Major VIVALDI Laudate pueri BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major BACH  Concerto in D Minor for Harpsichord VIVALDI  Bassoon Concerto in B-flat Major “La notte” BACH  Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, Cantata 51 Hélène Brunet, soprano Gabriel Benton, harpsichord Steven Marquardt, trumpet Nate Helgeson, bassoon Jeffrey Thomas, conductor Among …

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Amy Domingues and Eve Miller perform works for two cellos by Gabrielli, Klein, Barrière, Dall'Abaco, and Cervetto in a free lunchtime concert at McNeir Hall, in the New North Building of Georgetown University, in Washington, DC. Registration required.

A greeting from Sémplice: “In honor of the upcoming Valentine’s Day holiday, please join us as we celebrate love! From the yearning for love that is elusive to the pain of a languishing love; from a sacred prayer of loving devotion to a wordless aria of love, these Renaissance and Baroque songs of John Dowland, …

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“Across the Alps” — Baroque Influences from Italy Friday, February 10 at 7:00 pm About the Festival Arizona Early Music’s first-ever festival is a celebration of the Baroque, featuring soprano Nola Richardson and baritone Tyler Duncan. Curated and led by virtuoso keyboardist and specialist of Baroque vocal repertoire Avi Stein, the Tucson Baroque Music Festival will take audiences …

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Early Music Missouri opens the second half of its 2022 - 2023 season with a program of Italian music for solo cello. The Evolving Cello: Sonatas & Sinfonia by Italian Virtuosi features music by some of earliest masters of the cello including Giovanni Bononcini, Guiseppe Dall'Abaco, Antonio Vandini and Benedetto Marcello. Baroque cellist, Stephanie Hunt, …

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“Apollo and Daphne” — A Cantata by G. F. Handel Sunday, February 12 at 3:00 pm About the Festival Arizona Early Music’s first-ever festival is a celebration of the Baroque, featuring soprano Nola Richardson and baritone Tyler Duncan. Curated and led by virtuoso keyboardist and specialist of Baroque vocal repertoire Avi Stein, the Tucson Baroque Music Festival will …

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The perfect gift for that special someone: tickets for this February's coziest concerts! Early Music Access Project invites area residents to bring their Valentine to Winter Songs & Stories, performed in two of this area's most iconic spaces. When English and Scottish settlers came to the Colonies, they brought music, stories, and songs to bring light and laughter …

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The perfect gift for that special someone: tickets for this February's coziest concerts! Early Music Access Project invites area residents to bring their Valentine to Winter Songs & Stories, performed in two of this area's most iconic spaces. When English and Scottish settlers came to the Colonies, they brought music, stories, and songs to bring light and laughter …

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The Italians invented the violin, perfected its music, and travelled everywhere. An enchanting evening of Uccellini, Marini, Corelli, Matteis, Purcell & Handel. Elizabeth Blumenstock, Cynthia Miller Freivogel & Augusta McKay Lodge soloists

On Saturday, February 28, 2023, Owen Daly, builder of harpsichords and clavichords located in Salem, Oregon, will showcase his recently completed instrument made after Venetian models. Owen has presented for WEKA previously. In 2016, he shared his French instrument after Jean-Claude Goujon in a program of François Couperin and Rameau. The instrument featured in this program is in the …

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The Italians invented the violin, perfected its music, and travelled everywhere. An enchanting evening of Uccellini, Marini, Corelli, Matteis, Purcell & Handel. Elizabeth Blumenstock, Cynthia Miller Freivogel & Augusta McKay Lodge soloists

Arcadia Viols (Robert Eisenstein, Jane Hershey, Douglas Kelley, Anne Legêne and Alice Robbins) perform works of Tobias Hume for 1, 2 and 3 parts as well as consort music of Coprario, Lupo, Gibbons Byrd and Dowland. Also included in a set of pieces based on the hexachord, is a new piece by Larry Wallach of …

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On Handel's birthday Four Nations celebrates with three arias from his Italian operas and sonatas by his players and librettists, Castrucci, Heym, Ariosti, and Arne.  Join Pascale Beaudin, Olivier Brault, Evan Few, Nicole Divall, Loretta O'Sullivan and Andrew Appel in the perfect birthday party.

Perhaps the English language’s most famous diarist, Samuel Pepys was a prosperous civil servant and bon vivant in Restoration London. The diaries he kept from 1660-1668 provide a fascinating glimpse of life during the reign of the “merry monarch” Charles II. An enthusiastic amateur musician who sang and the lute, viola da gamba, and flageolet, …

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Members of Los Angeles-based viol ensemble Artifex Consort present a lush program of virtuosic French Baroque viol music, featuring—as a rare treat—both of Marin Marais’ decadent Pièces a 3 Violes from Pièces de Viole Livre IV (1717). The height of rhetorical brilliance, these works (alongside an array of colorful, enticing miniatures) showcase Marais as a …

Artifex Consort Feste Champêtre: Courtly Delicacies for Viols, Rustic and Refined Read More »