2017-2018 Concert Series
We’re excited to announce our 13th season of world-class concerts. Each show features a free pre-concert talk at 3:15pm. Don’t miss out on what CITY Newspaper calls “early music’s signature concert series.”
Monteverdi’s 450th
October 22, 2017
@ 4 pm ET
We celebrate the 450th birthday of this 17th century giant with a program of his dramatic and expressive madrigals, and virtuoso instrumental music by his contemporaries.
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Bagatelles & Impromptus
December 3, 2017
@ 4 pm ET
NEXT!!! David Breitman, fortepiano. Masterworks from the 1820’s by Beethoven and Schubert, performed on an instrument of the period. The program includes Beethoven’s Bagatelles, op. 126 as well as his Sonata in E major, op. 109; plus Schubert’s Impromptus op. 90. David Breitman is equally at home with the fortepiano and the modern piano, and enjoys […]
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Loves me; Loves me not
January 21, 2018
@ 4 pm ET
Love is all there is…even in early music! We present a varied program of music about love. Music of Merula, Purcell, Vivaldi, and others, and including Handel’s recently discovered virtuosic Gloria.
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Bach & Bach
March 18, 2018
@ 4 pm ET
Beiliang Zhu, cello & gamba, plays Bach on both instruments, plus Couperin.
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Fanfare & Filigree
April 22, 2018
@ 4 pm ET
After the continuous warfare of the seventeenth century, in the 1720s the rulers of Europe settled their entrenched rivalry with treaties of peace and reconciliation. This program celebrates the changing tides of European culture with triumphant fanfares and music of astounding beauty and virtuosity. Music of Couperin, Marais, Lully, Dornel, Zelenka, and others. Join us for […]
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