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(March 2024) — Multiple Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer – a group that “fascinates and enthralls … through luxurious perfection” (Los Angeles Times) – turns its attention this spring to Western music’s first notated large-scale, multi-movement work: Machaut’s landmark Messe de Nostre Dame, with four performances around the group’s home region of the San Francisco Bay Area (June 2–9). Chanticleer also continues

The Glory of the Wind Band: Music from Portugal & Spain Tickets & Info: 215-235-8469 or piffaro.org Piffaro’s season finale presents a program of lush polyphony from the Iberian Peninsula, showcasing the band’s remarkable collection of Renaissance shawms, dulcians, recorders, and sackbuts, and the versatile musicians who play them. May’s concert program draws on material performed

Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra is proud to bring one of the most celebrated concertos of the baroque period to the stage April 20 (Long Beach) and April 21 (Los Angeles)—Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. The Long Beach concert will be on Saturday, April 20, 2024, from 7:30-9:30 p.m. at the First Congregational Church of Long Beach (241

New Album: Ensemble Diderot shines a spotlight on its harpsichordist Philippe Grisvard in World Premiere recordings of repertoire from the court of Frederick II. Famed for imaginative concepts and first recordings, Ensemble Diderot’s latest series of recordings spotlighting members of the ensemble now turns to the ensemble’s harpsichordist: Philippe Grisvard, described by Diapason as having