Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA Victor Romanul, violin Michael Zaretsky, viola Xak Bjerken, piano John WILLIAMS Duo Concertante for violin and viola MOZART Duo in G for violin and viola, K.423 SHOSTAKOVICH Viola Sonata, Op. 147
The Simon's Rock Chamber Orchestra plays music by Vivaldi, Mozart, Haydn, Elgar, Dvorak and Purcell's "Dido's Lament" with soprano Gilbert Otten.
Berkshire Lyric presents Love’s Pure Light, the first of our three 2024 Christmas Concerts on Friday December 13. The choral program will take place at 7:30 at St. Mark’s Church on West Street in Pittsfield. Traditional and contemporary a cappella carols by Warlock, Pärt, Bruckner, Brahms and others will take advantage of the marvelous acoustics […]
The acclaimed Aston Magna Music Festival presents a live interactive performance of Capriccio Stravagante by Carlo Farina on December 13 at 3pm in Saint James Place’s Great Hall. This piece, for four string players plus theorbo, is an early baroque comic pastiche of short sections (dance sections) with descriptions like Kettledrums, Pilfering (military band recorder), […]
Jeewon Park (piano) and Edward Arron (cello), artistic directors of the Clark's Performing Artists in Residence program, are joined by Amy Schwartz Moretti (violin) and Che-Yen Chen (viola) for an inspirational afternoon of music. The program includes: Mozart Piano Quartet in g minor, K. 478 Dohnányi Serenade for String Trio, Op. 10 Fauré Piano Quartet […]
Berkshire Lyric presents Love’s Pure Light , the second of our three 2024 Christmas Concerts on Sunday December 15. The choral program will take place at 3:00 at Saint James Place on Main Street in Great Barrington. Traditional and contemporary a cappella carols by Warlock, Pärt, Bruckner, Brahms and others will take advantage of the […]
Composed by Tchaikovsky to counter a bout of insomnia and melancholy, Serenade for Strings immediately cheered him up, and he reported “feeling well, invigorated and content”—as gratified listeners have over the years. Few composers have possessed the ability to reflect emotions within their music as well as Tchaikovsky, and the Serenade channels solemnity and joy […]
Saint James Place is your home for the holidays! Crescendo presents Bach-Circle: Christmas Oratorios and Contemporary Voices on Sunday, December 29, 4:00pm. At the center of this program stands Johann Sebastian Bach’s fifth cantata of his Christmas Oratorio “Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen“ (Let honor be sung to you, O God). This cantata is about […]
The Berkshire Bach Society presents Bach at New Year’s: The Six ‘Brandenburg Concertos,’ an event that has been a holiday tradition since 1993. Nine-time Grammy Award winner and Artistic Director Eugene Drucker leads the Berkshire Bach Ensemble in the iconic works that started it all. Join Berkshire Bach for an evening of great music and […]
Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA Jenny Ahn and Ala Jojatu, violins Cathy Basrak, viola Jonah Ellsworth, cello KORNGOLD String Quartet No. 2 in E-flat, Op. 26 BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 7 in F, Op. 59, No. 1, Razumovsky
Renée Anne Louprette plays The Best of Bach—The Great Organ Works on the historic Johnson organ. George Stauffer, PhD, provides commentary about Bach’s life and music. J.S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in G, BWV 541 J.S. Bach: Transcriptions from Cantatas, BWV 106, 137, 140, 147, 208 J.S. Bach: Fugue in G minor (“Little”), BWV 578 […]
Composer-pianist Matthew Aucoin and pianist Conor Hanick team up for an inventive and dazzling two-piano recital, featuring a new work composed by Aucoin for Hanick. In addition to Aucoin's new piece, which is inspired by the luminous recent poetry of Ben Lerner, Hanick and Aucoin play a program divided into "introverted" and "extroverted" halves: in […]
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