RISKY BUSINESS
Come take a chance on riveting Baroque works by German composers who pushed the envelope! Virtuosic chamber music for flute, strings, and continuo by Buxtehude, Walther, Graupner, Kleinknecht, Janitsch, and Graun
Oct 26, 4pm: First Parish, Sudbury
Oct 27, 4pm: Old South Church, Boston and livestreamed
Christmas Far & Wide
Celebrate the season with festive18th-century yuletide music from across the Western Hemisphere! This sojourn takes you to Ireland, England, France, Poland, Germany, the Czech region, New England, and Mexico, with stellar works by Bach and Handel along with delightful rediscoveries. Carley DeFranco, soprano; Carrie Cheron, mezzo-soprano; Jonas Budris, tenor
Saturday, December 14, 4pm: Trinity Lutheran, Worcester and livestreamed
Sunday, December 15, 4pm: Old South Church, Boston
Tall Tales
A concert to lift your spirits and fire up your imagination!
This program will enchant you with storytelling in narrative chamber works by three Baroque masters. Antonio Vivaldi tantalizes and surprises with a haunted soundscape in his Night Concerto for flute and strings. François Couperin’s Apotheosis of Corelli is his self-invented mythological tale of the ascension of his musical idol Corelli to the top of Mount Parnasus. The work is a trio sonata for violins and continuo with narration (read in English) preceding each movement.
The concert closes with Part I of Francesco Geminiani’s rarely-performed epic composition The Enchanted Forest. This work for chamber orchestra in the form of a concerto grosso depicts the defense of a dark, wooded forest by a sorcerer and witches.
Saturday, March 8, 4pm: First Parish, Wayland and livestreamed
Sunday, March 9, 4pm: Old South Church, Boston
Through the Listening Glass
Escape with the ethereal, other-worldly sound of the Glass Armonica, an invention of Ben Franklin! The instrument is paired with flute and strings in Mozart’s famous Adagio and Rondo alongside exotic gems by Reichardt, Naumann, and early American composers Antes and Moller. American ingenuity at its finest!
With Glass Armonica virtuoso Dennis James
Saturday, May 3, 4pm: Worcester Historical Museum
Sunday, May 4, 4pm: Old South Church, Boston and livestreamed