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The Boston-based vocal ensemble Blue Heron announces the release of Johannes Ockeghem: Complete Songs, Volume 2, the second recording resulting from the ensemble’s multi-season project to commemorate the circa-600th birthday of the great Franco-Flemish composer Johannes Ockeghem. Blue Heron launches an exclusive pre-release on Friday, April 12, the same day as the start of the […]

BEMF concludes its 2023/24 Season with two brilliant returning ensembles in April: Jordi Savall with Hespèrion XXI on April 5 and Stile Antico on April 19 ARTIST: Hespèrion XXIJordi Savall, DirectorXavier Díaz-Latorre, theorbo & guitar; Andrew Lawrence-King, arpa doppia; Philippe Pierlot, treble and bass viols; Xavier Puertas, violone; David Mayoral, percussion; Jordi Savall, Director & treble and bass viols WHEN: Friday, April

In 1582, four Japanese teenage ambassadors set sail from Nagasaki to Lisbon on what would be an 8-year adventure. Discover their amazing story and celebrate their musical accomplishments in Japan and abroad at a performance of Lyracle’s new program, Musicians of the Tenshō Embassy. Learn more at lyraclemusic.com/events Performers: Ashley Mulcahy, mezzo-soprano James Perretta, viol Danielle Boivin, actor

Enjoy a live performance of music enjoyed and played in Colonial America! The Practitioners of Musick will offer a program at the historic Abraham Staats House (c.1740) that reflects late 17th and 18th century Dutch and English popular music heard in New Netherlands and its capital, New Amsterdam.  A march composed in honor of American

Blue Heron continues its multi-year exploration of the Italian madrigal with “Tasso & Wert,” a new program featuring dramatic scenes and lyrics by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso (1544-95) set to music by the Flemish composer Giaches de Wert (1535-96) and others. Taking place on Saturday, March 23 at 8pm at First Church in Cambridge,