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Our ongoing celebration of music before 1750 includes these internationally renowned ensembles: the Academy of Ancient Music, Hespèrion XXI with Jordi Savall, Boston Baroque, and Les Violons du Roy with mandolin master Avi Avital, all performing some of the greatest music of the age. 

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Academy of Ancient Music

Celebrate the holidays with brilliant Baroque music.

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Program

  • Rejoice
  • CLARKE “Mr. Shore’s Trumpett Tune”
  • HANDEL “Rejoice Greatly” from Messiah
  • CORELLI Concerto Grosso in D major, Op. 6, No. 7
  • TORELLI Trumpet Concerto in D major
  • HANDEL Gloria in excelsis Deo
  • Intermission
  • PURCELL “Sound the Trumpet” from The Indian Queen
  • HANDEL “Let the Bright Seraphim” from Samson
  • HANDEL Concerto Grosso in G major, Op. 6, No. 1
  • BACH “Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen” (Exult in God in all lands), BWV 51

Artists

  • Academy of Ancient Music
  • Bojan Čičić, director and violin
  • David Blackadder, natural trumpet
  • Rowan Pierce, soprano
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Jordi Savall • La Capella Reial de Catalunya • Hespèrion XXI

The incomparable Jordi Savall returns with music from the Golden Age.

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Program

  • Splendor of the Iberian Baroque

Artists

  • Hespèrion XXI
  • La Capella Reial de Catalunya
  • Jordi Savall, director/treble viol
  • Lucía Martín-Cartón, soprano
  • Viva Biancaluna Biffi, mezzo-soprano / tenor viol
  • Víctor Sordo, tenor
  • Yannis François, baritone
  • Juan Manuel Quintana, bass viol
  • Xavier Puertas, violone
  • Xavier Díaz-Latorre, guitar & vihuela
  • Andrew Lawrence-King, triple harp
  • David Mayoral, percussion
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(Canceled) Boston Baroque

America’s first Baroque orchestra offers 18th-century treasures.

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Program

  • CORELLI Concerto Grosso in F, Op. 6, No. 2
  • VIVALDI Nulla in mundo pax sincera
  • BACH Concerto for Three Violins in D major, BWV 1064R
  • Intermission
  • RAMEAU Suite from Platée
  • BACH Orchestral Suite No. 4, BWV 1069

Artists

  • Boston Baroque
  • Martin Pearlman, conductor
  • Yulia Van Doren, soprano
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(Canceled) Les Violons du Roy

Blistering Baroque artistry from mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital and the Canadian ensemble.

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Program

  • VIVALDI Mandolin Concerto in C, RV 425
  • BACH Excerpts from The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080
  • BACH Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 (arr. for solo mandolin by Avi Avital)
  • Intermission
  • VIVALDI Lute Concerto in D, RV 93 (arr. for solo mandolin by Avi Avital)
  • VIVALDI Concerto grosso in G minor, Op. 3, No. 2, RV 578
  • BACH Keyboard Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052 (arr. and transcr. for solo mandolin by Avi Avital)

Artists

  • Les Violons du Roy
  • Jonathan Cohen, conductor
  • Avi Avital, mandolin