Saturday, February 1
The Armed Archangel: Johannes Regis, Missa L’homme armé
Blue Heron: Michael Barrett, Jonas Budris, Steven Hrycelak, Kim Leeds, David McFerrin, Jason McStoots, Sophie Michaux, Timothy Parsons, Sumner Thompson
Regis’s Mass based on the song L’homme armé is one of the very first in a series of L’homme arméworks stretching across musical generations – and the only one whose origins are clearly understood. Written for the celebration of the feast of St. Michael at Cambrai Cathedral in 1462, the Mass is a tour de force setting multiple plainchant cantus firmi and featuring Regis’s brilliant and unique sense of sonority.
3pm - First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge
Tickets $10-$90
https://www.blueheron.org/concerts/season26/armed-archangel/
Blue Heron: Michael Barrett, Jonas Budris, Steven Hrycelak, Kim Leeds, David McFerrin, Jason McStoots, Sophie Michaux, Timothy Parsons, Sumner Thompson
Regis’s Mass based on the song L’homme armé is one of the very first in a series of L’homme arméworks stretching across musical generations – and the only one whose origins are clearly understood. Written for the celebration of the feast of St. Michael at Cambrai Cathedral in 1462, the Mass is a tour de force setting multiple plainchant cantus firmi and featuring Regis’s brilliant and unique sense of sonority.
3pm - First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge
Tickets $10-$90
https://www.blueheron.org/concerts/season26/armed-archangel/
Friday, February 7
In the Salon of Fanny von Arnstein: Lieder by C. P. E Bach, Mozart and Schubert
Newton Baroque: Jason McStoots, Tenor, Andrus Madsen, Fortepiano
7:30 pm - Goethe-Institut, 170 Beacon St., Boston
https://www.newtonbaroque.org/concerts.html
Newton Baroque: Jason McStoots, Tenor, Andrus Madsen, Fortepiano
7:30 pm - Goethe-Institut, 170 Beacon St., Boston
https://www.newtonbaroque.org/concerts.html
Saturday, February 8
In the Salon of Fanny von Arnstein: Lieder by C. P. E Bach, Mozart and Schubert
Newton Baroque: Jason McStoots, Tenor, Andrus Madsen, Fortepiano
7:30 pm - Nathaniel Allen House, 35 Webster St., West Newton
https://www.newtonbaroque.org/concerts.html
Newton Baroque: Jason McStoots, Tenor, Andrus Madsen, Fortepiano
7:30 pm - Nathaniel Allen House, 35 Webster St., West Newton
https://www.newtonbaroque.org/concerts.html
Keyboard Masterpieces by Handel
Francesco Corti, harpsichord & organ with the BEMF Chamber Ensemble (Robert Mealy, Director)
Join us for a one-of-a-kind event featuring the stunning virtuoso Francesco Corti performing a solo work for harpischord and joining with our own all-star BEMF Chamber Ensemble and director Robert Mealy to present two Organ Concertos by Handel on the magnificent Richards, Fowkes & Co. Opus 10 organ at Boston’s First Lutheran Church. Celebrating the biennial conference of the American Handel Society—February 6–9, 2025 in Boston—the program will showcase two selections (No. 1 and No. 4) from Handel’s innovative Opus 4, which first established the form of the organ concerto.
8pm - First Lutheran Church, Boston, MA
VIRTUAL PREMIERE: Saturday, February 22, 2025 at 8pm (ET)
Available to watch until March 8, 2025 at 11:59pm (ET)
https://bemf.org/concert-season/
Francesco Corti, harpsichord & organ with the BEMF Chamber Ensemble (Robert Mealy, Director)
Join us for a one-of-a-kind event featuring the stunning virtuoso Francesco Corti performing a solo work for harpischord and joining with our own all-star BEMF Chamber Ensemble and director Robert Mealy to present two Organ Concertos by Handel on the magnificent Richards, Fowkes & Co. Opus 10 organ at Boston’s First Lutheran Church. Celebrating the biennial conference of the American Handel Society—February 6–9, 2025 in Boston—the program will showcase two selections (No. 1 and No. 4) from Handel’s innovative Opus 4, which first established the form of the organ concerto.
8pm - First Lutheran Church, Boston, MA
VIRTUAL PREMIERE: Saturday, February 22, 2025 at 8pm (ET)
Available to watch until March 8, 2025 at 11:59pm (ET)
https://bemf.org/concert-season/
Friday, February 14
Rum and Rebellion
Agave with Reginald Mobley, countertenor
Explore the turbulent crossroads of revolution, the rum industry, and the transatlantic slave trade in the Caribbean, South America, and Europe in a fascinating program with the San Francisco–based Agave in the string ensemble’s BEMF début alongside star countertenor Reginald Mobley. These GRAMMY-nominated collaborators explore works by Black British composer, rum merchant, and abolitionist Ignatius Sancho as well as Brazilian master José Mauricio Nuñes Garcia, grandson of sugar cane plantation slaves. Discover the unique and compelling voice of Cuban composer and music historian Esteban Salas and hear Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s setting of the earliest published text in Haitian Creole. From heartbreaking love songs to elegant chamber works and joyous expressions of faith, experience the music of a changing world through the eyes of composers whose stories are finally being told.
8pm - First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
VIRTUAL PREMIERE: Friday, February 28, 2025 at 8pm (ET)
Available to watch until March 14, 2025 at 11:59pm (ET)
www.bemf.org
Agave with Reginald Mobley, countertenor
Explore the turbulent crossroads of revolution, the rum industry, and the transatlantic slave trade in the Caribbean, South America, and Europe in a fascinating program with the San Francisco–based Agave in the string ensemble’s BEMF début alongside star countertenor Reginald Mobley. These GRAMMY-nominated collaborators explore works by Black British composer, rum merchant, and abolitionist Ignatius Sancho as well as Brazilian master José Mauricio Nuñes Garcia, grandson of sugar cane plantation slaves. Discover the unique and compelling voice of Cuban composer and music historian Esteban Salas and hear Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s setting of the earliest published text in Haitian Creole. From heartbreaking love songs to elegant chamber works and joyous expressions of faith, experience the music of a changing world through the eyes of composers whose stories are finally being told.
8pm - First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
VIRTUAL PREMIERE: Friday, February 28, 2025 at 8pm (ET)
Available to watch until March 14, 2025 at 11:59pm (ET)
www.bemf.org
Saturday, February 15
All About Love
Cappella Clausura
“Sappho begins with a sweet apple and ends in infinite hunger.” (From "Eros the Bittersweet", by Anne Carson) Too often throughout history, we've seen women's love and desire depicted through a male gaze, while authentic expressions of love and desire by women in art have been considered taboo. Cappella Clausura challenges this by centering the voices of women and gender non-binary composers in this program on the topic of love in all its forms. Featuring music by Evelin Seppar, Modesta Bor, Rafaella Aleotti, Laura Nevitt, and others.
4PM - Grace Church, Newton, MA
https://www.clausura.org/
Cappella Clausura
“Sappho begins with a sweet apple and ends in infinite hunger.” (From "Eros the Bittersweet", by Anne Carson) Too often throughout history, we've seen women's love and desire depicted through a male gaze, while authentic expressions of love and desire by women in art have been considered taboo. Cappella Clausura challenges this by centering the voices of women and gender non-binary composers in this program on the topic of love in all its forms. Featuring music by Evelin Seppar, Modesta Bor, Rafaella Aleotti, Laura Nevitt, and others.
4PM - Grace Church, Newton, MA
https://www.clausura.org/
Sunday, February 16
All About Love
Cappella Clausura
“Sappho begins with a sweet apple and ends in infinite hunger.” (From "Eros the Bittersweet", by Anne Carson) Too often throughout history, we've seen women's love and desire depicted through a male gaze, while authentic expressions of love and desire by women in art have been considered taboo. Cappella Clausura challenges this by centering the voices of women and gender non-binary composers in this program on the topic of love in all its forms. Featuring music by Evelin Seppar, Modesta Bor, Rafaella Aleotti, Laura Nevitt, and others.
4PM - Emmanuel Church, Boston, MA
https://www.clausura.org/
Cappella Clausura
“Sappho begins with a sweet apple and ends in infinite hunger.” (From "Eros the Bittersweet", by Anne Carson) Too often throughout history, we've seen women's love and desire depicted through a male gaze, while authentic expressions of love and desire by women in art have been considered taboo. Cappella Clausura challenges this by centering the voices of women and gender non-binary composers in this program on the topic of love in all its forms. Featuring music by Evelin Seppar, Modesta Bor, Rafaella Aleotti, Laura Nevitt, and others.
4PM - Emmanuel Church, Boston, MA
https://www.clausura.org/
Friday, February 21
L’Impromptu: Musical Surprises from the French Baroque
Très Maresienne: Lisa Brooke, violin; Carol Lewis, viola da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, theorbo, baroque guitar
Sonatas, dances, character pieces & a symphonia by Clérambault, Dornel, Forqueray, & Jacquet de la Guerre.
8pm - Lindsay Chapel, First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden St., Cambridge, MA (N.B.: entrance on Mason St.)
$35 general admission; $25 students, seniors, low income
www.duomaresienne.com
Très Maresienne: Lisa Brooke, violin; Carol Lewis, viola da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, theorbo, baroque guitar
Sonatas, dances, character pieces & a symphonia by Clérambault, Dornel, Forqueray, & Jacquet de la Guerre.
8pm - Lindsay Chapel, First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden St., Cambridge, MA (N.B.: entrance on Mason St.)
$35 general admission; $25 students, seniors, low income
www.duomaresienne.com
Sunday, February 23
L’Impromptu: Musical Surprises from the French Baroque
Très Maresienne: Lisa Brooke, violin; Carol Lewis, viola da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, theorbo, baroque guitar
Sonatas, dances, character pieces & a symphonia by Clérambault, Dornel, Forqueray, & Jacquet de la Guerre.
3pm - Somerville Museum, One Westwood Rd. Somerville, MA
$30 general, $25 students, seniors, Museum members
www.duomaresienne.com or call (617) 776-0692.
Très Maresienne: Lisa Brooke, violin; Carol Lewis, viola da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, theorbo, baroque guitar
Sonatas, dances, character pieces & a symphonia by Clérambault, Dornel, Forqueray, & Jacquet de la Guerre.
3pm - Somerville Museum, One Westwood Rd. Somerville, MA
$30 general, $25 students, seniors, Museum members
www.duomaresienne.com or call (617) 776-0692.