2022/23 Season

Dublin Virtuosi: The Backstory of the First Messiah

Peter Whelan, guest director and harpsichord
October 29, 2022

  • Antonio Vivaldi
    Concerto for Two Violins in A Major, Opus 3, No. 5 from L’estro armonico
  • George Frideric Handel
    Concerto Grosso in G Minor Opus 6, No. 6
  • Matthew Dubourg
    Dubourg's Maggott
  • Matthew Dubourg
    Variations on ‘Eileen Aroon’
  • Pietro Castrucci
    Concerto Grosso in D Major, Opus 3, No. 12
  • Niccolo Pasquali
    Overture for the Gran Festino
  • Francesco Geminiani
    Concerto Grosso in E Major, Opus 5, No. 11, H. 142, after Corelli
  • George Frideric Handel
    Concerto Grosso in D Major, Opus 6, No. 5
  • Antonio Vivaldi
    Concerto for Four Violins in B Minor from L’Estro Armonico, Opus 3, No. 10

Bach: Family & Friends

Aisslinn Nosky, guest director and violin
November 12, 2022

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    Symphony in B-flat Major
  • Georg Philipp Telemann
    Burlesque de Quixotte
  • Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
    Ouverture in G Minor
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor

New Horizons: Locke to Bach to Locatelli

Julian Perkins, guest director and harpsichord
November 19, 2022

  • Matthew Locke
    Curtain Tune in C Major from The Rare Theatrical, Drexel 3976
  • Georg Muffat
    Sonata II in G Minor from Armonico tributo
  • Johann Heinrich Schmelzer
    Balletto à 4 in G Major, Fechtschule
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
    Battalia à 10 in D Major
  • Athanasius Kircher
    Tarantella Napoletana
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major
  • Pietro Antonio Locatelli
    Il pianto d’Arianna Concerto grosso in E-flat Major, Opus 7, No. 6

Handel’s Messiah

Gabriel Crouch
December 09, 2022

  • George Frideric Handel
    Messiah

Water Music

John Butt
March 18, 2023

  • George Frideric Handel
    Water Music Suite No. 2 in D Major
  • Georg Philipp Telemann
    Hamburg Ebb and Flow (Water Music)
  • George Frideric Handel
    Act III Sinfonia, “The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” from Solomon
  • George Frideric Handel
    Water Music Suite No. 3 in G Major
  • George Frideric Handel
    Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major

Bach’s Cello Suites

Violoncellos: Joanna Blendulf, Adaiha MacAdam-Somer, Annabeth Shirley, Tanya Tomkins
March 19, 2023

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Suite No. 1 in G Major
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Suite No. 2 in D Minor
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Suite No. 3 in C Major
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3, arr. Orfeo Mandozzi

A Mozart Jubilee

John Butt
April 15, 2023

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-flat Major
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Concert Aria, “A questo seno…Or che il Cielo”
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Bassoon Concerto in B-flat Major
  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
    Symphonie Concertante in F Major for two violins and viola, Opus 10, No. 1
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    “Alleluia” from Exsultate, jubilate
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Symphony No. 29 in A Major
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