Upcoming and Noteworthy

The Noontime Concert on Friday, 2-22 features Melomanie on Baroque or modern strings and winds in pieces by Francois Couperin, Georg Philipp Telemann, Yuko Uebayashi, Christopher Cook, Luciano Berio, Cynthia Folio, Jean Daniel Braun & Carl Friedrich Abel.

Soprano Emma Kirkby joins Gothic Voices on Friday's Distant Mirror with three selections by 12th century abbess and mystic Hildegard of Bingen from the cd A Feather on the Breath of God.  Christopher Page directs.  Then Ms. Kirkby teams up with lutenist and former spouse Anthony Rooley for three selections from John Dowland's last song cycle, A Pilgrim's Solace. There's also consort music of Orlando Gibbons, and a Dufay sacred piece  for voices and soprano saxophonne.  Join Allan Kelly at 10pm.

Carnegie Hall's 2019-2020 season includes a celebration of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, including a multi-continent Ode to Joy project, and this Saturday (2/23 at 7 pm) A Tempo previews some of the highlights. Host Rachel Katz will speak with Executive and Artistic Director Clive Gillinson about the season, and also about the upcoming Migrations Festival, which kicks off next month and is devoted to exploring the impact and influence of immigrants on American culture.

Steven Sametz, Artistic Director of The Princeton Singers, hosts Sounds Choral this Sunday (2/24) surveying Britsh choral works. Sounds Choral can be heard at 2 pm.

This week on The Lyric Stage, Fritz Wunderlich and Cecilia Bartoli sing music from Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro and Cosi fan Tutti. Mozart's deceptively simple-looking music is full of surprises and challenges, and Wunderlich and Bartoli are superb interpreters.

Sunday evening (2-25) on Half Past we'll hear the Piano Concerto by American James Yannatos and the Harp Concerto by Dutch composer Roel van Oosten.  Music composed in the past half-century on Half Past.

On Thursday, 2-21 the Noontime Concert from Astral Artists includes:

Schumann’s Arabeske for piano, Carl Maria von Weber’s Clarinet Quintet in B-Flat Major and Dvorak’s Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 81. The performers are

Violinists Nikki Chooi & Soovin Kim, violist Sam Quintal, cellist Timotheos Petrin, clarinetist Igor Begelman and pianist Sejoon Park.

Wednesday, 2-20 at noon on Curtis Calls we'll hear Franz Waxman's Carmen Fantasy for violin & piano, the Cello Sonata No. 6 by Luigi Boccherini, Fritz Kreisler's Tempo di minuetto, a selection from Bela Kovacs's Hommages and the Sonata in f minor for clarinet & piano by Johannes Brahms.  Performances from student recitals at the Curtis Institute of Music, Wednesdays at noon and Monday evenings at 10.

This week’s episode of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Virgil Thomson Award winning program Between the Keys is devoted to piano sonatinas.

“It’s interesting how sonatinas are, in theory, smaller sonatas, yet the fact is that some sonatinas are bigger than sonatas, and that some sonatas are smaller than sonatinas,” says Jed Distler, host for Between the Keys, and the Classical Network’s Artist-in-Residence. “I thought it would be a good idea to comb through a variety of sonatinas and sonatina movements, combining some familiar works with music that you may not have heard.”

The Concordia Chamber Players come your way this Friday (2/15) at 4 pm, bringing music from England and France in a program of works by Benjamin Britten, Sir Edward Elgar, Jonathan Dove and Jean Francaix.

Sunday evening, 2-17 at 11 on Half Past we'll hear A Grecian Festival by James Cohn, Nights in Timisoara and The Morning Trumpet by Barbara Harbach, Laura Karpman's Rounds for viola & piano & the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet in Genesis V by Janika Vandervelde. Music from the past half-century on Half Past.