Sunday, January 1
New Year's Celebration
Boston Baroque (Martin Pearlman, director)
Boston Baroque rings in the New Year with Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 and Telemann’s Concerto in E minor for Recorder and Flute. This hour-long program is the ideal way to kick off 2023 with family and friends both near and far.
3pm - Sanders Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
https://baroque.boston
Boston Baroque (Martin Pearlman, director)
Boston Baroque rings in the New Year with Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 and Telemann’s Concerto in E minor for Recorder and Flute. This hour-long program is the ideal way to kick off 2023 with family and friends both near and far.
3pm - Sanders Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
https://baroque.boston
Friday, January 6
Beethoven + Mozart
Handel & Haydn Society; Aisslinn Nosky, director and violin
Our brilliant concertmaster solos in H+H’s premiere of Mozart’s youthful violin concerto, full of engaging melodies and grace. The bold tempos and dynamics of Beethoven’s First Symphony caused a stir in Vienna, and you’ll hear it as those surprised audiences did, sounding as vibrant and lively as on the day of its premiere. Opening the concert: H+H’s first ever performance of the spirited music of Marianna Martines, highly regarded in her times as a composer, keyboardist, and singer who was Haydn’s downstairs neighbor and part of Mozart’s musical circle.
7:30pm - Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
Website
Handel & Haydn Society; Aisslinn Nosky, director and violin
Our brilliant concertmaster solos in H+H’s premiere of Mozart’s youthful violin concerto, full of engaging melodies and grace. The bold tempos and dynamics of Beethoven’s First Symphony caused a stir in Vienna, and you’ll hear it as those surprised audiences did, sounding as vibrant and lively as on the day of its premiere. Opening the concert: H+H’s first ever performance of the spirited music of Marianna Martines, highly regarded in her times as a composer, keyboardist, and singer who was Haydn’s downstairs neighbor and part of Mozart’s musical circle.
7:30pm - Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
Website
Sunday, January 8
Beethoven + Mozart
Handel & Haydn Society; Aisslinn Nosky, director and violin
Our brilliant concertmaster solos in H+H’s premiere of Mozart’s youthful violin concerto, full of engaging melodies and grace. The bold tempos and dynamics of Beethoven’s First Symphony caused a stir in Vienna, and you’ll hear it as those surprised audiences did, sounding as vibrant and lively as on the day of its premiere. Opening the concert: H+H’s first ever performance of the spirited music of Marianna Martines, highly regarded in her times as a composer, keyboardist, and singer who was Haydn’s downstairs neighbor and part of Mozart’s musical circle.
3:00pm - Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
Website
Handel & Haydn Society; Aisslinn Nosky, director and violin
Our brilliant concertmaster solos in H+H’s premiere of Mozart’s youthful violin concerto, full of engaging melodies and grace. The bold tempos and dynamics of Beethoven’s First Symphony caused a stir in Vienna, and you’ll hear it as those surprised audiences did, sounding as vibrant and lively as on the day of its premiere. Opening the concert: H+H’s first ever performance of the spirited music of Marianna Martines, highly regarded in her times as a composer, keyboardist, and singer who was Haydn’s downstairs neighbor and part of Mozart’s musical circle.
3:00pm - Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
Website
Friday, January 20
Beethoven Eroica
Handel & Haydn Society
Feel the power of Beethoven’s “heroic” symphony, celebrating “the memory of a great man”—from its two bolts-out-of-the-blue opening chords to the brilliant finale—as H+H, led by Václav Luks, breathes exhilarating life into this majestic masterpiece. We begin with power of another kind: a storm at sea, as the symphony’s nickname promises. The composer (a friend of Mozart) raises thunderous effects of all kinds, reserving the mightiest for the last movement, with the bass drum front and center.
7:30pm - Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
Website
Handel & Haydn Society
Feel the power of Beethoven’s “heroic” symphony, celebrating “the memory of a great man”—from its two bolts-out-of-the-blue opening chords to the brilliant finale—as H+H, led by Václav Luks, breathes exhilarating life into this majestic masterpiece. We begin with power of another kind: a storm at sea, as the symphony’s nickname promises. The composer (a friend of Mozart) raises thunderous effects of all kinds, reserving the mightiest for the last movement, with the bass drum front and center.
7:30pm - Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
Website
Saturday, January 21
Leçons de Ténèbres by François Couperin
Les Bostonades: Zachary Wilder & Aaron Sheehan, tenors; Emily Walhout, viola da gamba; Akiko Sato, organ, director
Regarded as the most famous ecclesiastical works by François Couperin (1668–1733), an eminent French Baroque musician during the rule of Louis XIV, the Leçons de ténèbres (“Tenebrae Readings”) are a surviving collection of three vocal pieces for one and two high voices and continuo for Maundy Thursday. (The other two collections of lessons for Good Friday and Holy Saturday are lost.) Published in 1714 and presumably written for the nuns of the Longchamp Abbey in the outskirts of Paris, the three lessons use the Latin text of the Book of Lamentations from the Old Testament, in which Jeremiah mourns the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians.
4pm - Gordon Chapel at Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
$25 general/$20 seniors/$10 students
Les Bostonades: Zachary Wilder & Aaron Sheehan, tenors; Emily Walhout, viola da gamba; Akiko Sato, organ, director
Regarded as the most famous ecclesiastical works by François Couperin (1668–1733), an eminent French Baroque musician during the rule of Louis XIV, the Leçons de ténèbres (“Tenebrae Readings”) are a surviving collection of three vocal pieces for one and two high voices and continuo for Maundy Thursday. (The other two collections of lessons for Good Friday and Holy Saturday are lost.) Published in 1714 and presumably written for the nuns of the Longchamp Abbey in the outskirts of Paris, the three lessons use the Latin text of the Book of Lamentations from the Old Testament, in which Jeremiah mourns the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians.
4pm - Gordon Chapel at Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
$25 general/$20 seniors/$10 students
Sunday, January 22
Beethoven Eroica
Handel & Haydn Society
Feel the power of Beethoven’s “heroic” symphony, celebrating “the memory of a great man”—from its two bolts-out-of-the-blue opening chords to the brilliant finale—as H+H, led by Václav Luks, breathes exhilarating life into this majestic masterpiece. We begin with power of another kind: a storm at sea, as the symphony’s nickname promises. The composer (a friend of Mozart) raises thunderous effects of all kinds, reserving the mightiest for the last movement, with the bass drum front and center.
3:00pm - Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
Website
Handel & Haydn Society
Feel the power of Beethoven’s “heroic” symphony, celebrating “the memory of a great man”—from its two bolts-out-of-the-blue opening chords to the brilliant finale—as H+H, led by Václav Luks, breathes exhilarating life into this majestic masterpiece. We begin with power of another kind: a storm at sea, as the symphony’s nickname promises. The composer (a friend of Mozart) raises thunderous effects of all kinds, reserving the mightiest for the last movement, with the bass drum front and center.
3:00pm - Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
Website