Daniel Pincus: To The Distant Beloved
Beethoven's song cycle for tenor
An die ferne Geliebte and additional songs by Schubert, accompanied by Gwendolyn Toth on fortepiano.
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Bacchanalia:
Bach's Boys and English Friends
Flute music by J.S. Bach's sons Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel, and their childhood friend Carl Friedrich Abel.
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Ensemble Viscera: Crime and Punishment
An exploration of the jácara in its various guises, and other songs and pieces associated with
the criminal element of Golden Age Spain.
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Anima: From the Vatican to Versailles
The Barberini family patronized illustrious
thinkers, artists, musicians and poets throughout Europe in the 17th century.
Hear their favorite composers in this program featuring soprano Beth Anne Hatton.
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Giuseppe Schinaia: Harmonia Musicae
The Italian harpsichordist performs Allemanda in discessum Caroli XI Regis Sueciae by Christian Ritter and
Musicalischer Parnassus: Uranie by Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer.
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Sofia Dimitrova: Handel Cantatas
A delighful program including La Partenza and Un'alma innamorata, and a selection of instrumental music with Theresa Salomon, Carlene Stober, and Rebecca Pechefsky.
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Black Marble: Enchanted Journeys
Jörg-Michael Schwarz and Karen Marie Marmer, violins, play rarely-heard string duos by Georg Philipp
Telemann and Jean-Marie Leclair.
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Dodd String Quartet: Great Fugue
Featuring the monumental Grosse Fuge
(1826) by Beethoven, preceded by two of Purcell's Fantasias in 4 Parts from 150 years earlier. Both of these inventively contrapuntal works astound and challenge our modern ears.
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La Follia Barocca: Italian Concertos
The acclaimed baroque ensemble, based in Milan, Italy, will perform music for strings by
Francesco Geminiani, Pietro Antonio Locatelli, and Antonio Vivaldi.
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Repast: German Baroque Trio Sonatas
Music by Johann
Sebastian Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude, and Philipp Heinrich Erlebach. "A graceful, energetic ensemble" (The New York Times).
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Ensemble Leonarda:
Globalization
In the spirit of "Les Goûts Réunis", a program featuring music by Sammartini (who lived in London), Boismortier (sonata in the Italian style), John Blow's
Morlake Ground (based on the Italian ciaccona), and Telemann (Paris Quartet in A major).
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NY Continuo Collective: Fall Workshop
The group performs selections of early Italian monody, featuring the music of Sigismondo d'India, whose collection of Musiche was published exactly four hundred years ago.
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Musica Nuova: Holiday Spirit
Ever have trouble feeling merry during the most hectic time of year? Soprano Amanda Keil sings
about the many conflicted feelings of the holiday season: nostalgia, sadness, cynicism, and finally peace and joy.
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Jessica Gould, soprano and Audrey Axinn, fortepiano: Haydn Celebration
As the Haydn anniversary year draws to a close, we hear two of the master's gems, the Sonata in F
Major from Haydn's service to the Esterhazy family of Hungary, and the tempestuous cantata Arianna a Naxos, written in London for public performance.
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Empire Viols: The State of Gambo
The legendary gambists of 17th-century England created a virtual State of Gambo: the flourishing of extraordinary music by
Tobias Hume, Christopher Simpson, and William Young.
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Dongsok Shin: Sublime Mozart
The New York fortepianist will play Mozart's Concerto in E flat, no. 14, K. 449 accompanied by the ensemble REBEL. "Dongsok Shin is a master... deftly articulating each note of the rapidly
moving, highly ornamented lines and also realizing fully the expressive quality of the instrument" (Classical Voice of NC).
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My Lord Chamberlain's Consort: Yuletide! In what has become a Midtown Concerts tradition, the merry musicians of My Lord Chamberlain's Consort offer holiday cheer in celebration of the
turning of the year, with seasonal song from the courts of medieval and Renaissance England.
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Parthenia: The New-yeeres Gift
The viol consort and guest Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, mezzo-soprano, will perform Anthony Holborne's dance The New-yeeres Gift, Will Ayton's Ballad of the Rosemary, and other works
by Elizabethan and 21st-century composers.
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Brooklyn Baroque: Spotlight on Boismortier
Chamber music by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier for flute, cello, and harpsichord.
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