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November 8, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Throughout the ages, English musical culture has stood apart from that of the European continent, and the Elizabethan Consort Song is perhaps the most typically “English” musical expression of its time. Joined once again by acclaimed mezzo-soprano Meg Bragle, Filament explores a varied selection of rarely heard songs by William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons alongside […]

November 8, 2024 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm – Join us and hear world-acclaimed harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï  play G.F. Handel’s vibrant works for harpsichord  and sparkling Sonatas by D. Scarlatti.  This music gives full rein to Pierre Hantaï’s artistic mastery, incomparable emotional eloquence, and extraordinary virtuosity. This concert is one of four very special harpsichord concerts presented in Capriccio Baroque’s ‘Festival Capriccio 2024’.  Festival […]

November 9, 2024 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm – Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Thomaskirche in Leipzig was an important musical center of the region. It is best known as the church where, during his time as Cantor, Johann Sebastian Bach produced more than a third of his 300+ church cantatas. The Cantors of Leipzig presents works composed by those who held this […]

November 9, 2024 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – Composer William Byrd was a covert Catholic facing brutal persecution during the Counter-Reformation in the 16th century. Hear Byrd’s Mass for Five Voices as he intended: sung for worship in strictest secrecy. Early music phenoms The Gesualdo Six make their MB1800 debut from Britain in this landmark performance that continues to tour the world. Don’t […]

November 9, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Stormy Weather Tempests, Shipwrecks & Nature’s Fury  Followed by a Buffet of Artisanal Cheeses & Mulled Wine In baroque music, storms and tempests appear not only as literal representations of nature’s fury but also convey the whirlwind of emotions from a broken heart. Opera composers    created frightening scenes with an ingenious arsenal of stage […]