2010-2011 Season

Join us for our twenty-second season of musical discoveries presented in beautiful New England settings.

  • Roman Handel

    Fiery works, lyrical works and more by the young George Frideric Handel, who lived and learned and composed in Italy for four years, and several Italian contemporaries—Lulier, Cesarini, Corelli, and Gasparini. Enjoy sonatas and concertos, plus cantatas and arias sung by sparkling guest soprano Kristen Watson.

    $25.00
  • Joyeux Noël—A French Baroque Christmas

    Featured will be Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s rare and beautiful Dialogus Inter Angelos et Pastores, along with his Magnificat H. 73, and tuneful noëls. Vocal solosts Roberta Anderson, soprano, Terence McKinney, haute-contre, Mattthew Anderson, tenor, and Aaron Engebreth, baritone will join an augmented instrumental ensemble for this festive program.

    Close your eyes and you’ll be in late 17th-century Paris!

    $25.00
  • Hidden Treasures from the German Baroque

    Rarely-heard quartets by Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, Christoph Graupner, Johann David Heinichen, and others, featuring the exotic and beguiling sounds of the chalumeau — a Baroque clarinet — and the Baroque bassoon, along with traverso, violin, viola, cello, and harpsichord.

    The Wayland performance is co-presented by the
    Wayland Historical Society.

     

    $25.00
  • Philadelphia Story

    Classical sounds of early America are captured in this revelatory musical portrait of some of the United States’ first, fine composers who populated the lively and sophisticated music scene in Federal Philadelphia. Marvelous early American music by John Christopher Moller, Raynor Taylor, Alexander Reinagle, and others in beautiful and historic American spaces.

    $25.00