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Friday, October 21 at 8pm First Church Cambridge, Congregational Love songs, Lute solos, and Laments “The chiseled beauty and dovetailing rapport in their musicmaking was a joy to hear.” —The Washington Post |
Andreas Scholl Presented with
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Harry Bicket, conductor and harpsichord Sunday, October 23 at 3pm New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Boston Purcell: Scenes from King Arthur and The Fairy Queen “Beautiful...wonderfully in tune with the fire, fantasy and dancing lightness of the music.” —Chicago Tribune |
Philippe Jaroussky |
Jeannette Sorrell, Music Director
Emmanuel Church, Boston Handel and Vivaldi: Fireworks “Consistently accomplished.” —Classical Music Magazine |
 Aaron Sheehan |
BEMF CHAMBER OPERA SERIES
Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors BEMF Chamber Ensemble
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Boston “Musically impeccable.” –The Boston Globe |
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St. Paul Church, Cambridge Puer Natus Est — Tudor Music for
Christmas and Advent “An ensemble of breathtaking freshness, vitality and balance.” –The New York Times |
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Stephen Stubbs, director
First Church Cambridge, Congregational Early Handel Cantatas “Tragicomedia play with such agile dexterity that your concept of seventeenth-century music will be irrevocably changed.” —The Observer |
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Fabio Biondi, director and violin
Sanders Theatre at Harvard University, Cambridge New Faces and Old: Music of Brioschi, Haydn, Scaccia, Vivaldi, Bach, and Handel “This is a group that truly plays as one.” —The Columbus Dispatch |
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First Church Cambridge, Congregational The Harpsichord’s Golden Century: Music of Couperin, Blow, Froberger, and Purcell “The Bernstein of Early Music.” —NPR Music |
A co-presentation with the Concert Series at Wellesley
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Benjamin Bagby, voice, harps & symphonia
Houghton Chapel at Wellesley College, Wellesley Fragments for the End of Time “Sequentia delivers the full compass of human expression.” —The Boston Globe |
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Peter Phillips, director
St. Paul Church, Cambridge The Field of the Cloth of Gold: Music of Jean Mouton and William Cornysh “This is music with wings and was sung with such calm conviction that it barely touched the ground.” —The Washington Post |
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Sanders Theatre at Harvard University, Cambridge Reclaiming Bach for the Recorder “The Belgian group’s exquisite playing was always perfectly clear, balanced, tight, agile, fluent, witty, and soulful.” —Shepherd Express |
