2018-19 Concert Season

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Join us for our 2018-19 season. From opera and oratorio to suites and symphonies, it all starts with the Baroque. To order by phone, call our box office at 312.551.1414 Monday through Friday, 10 am to 5 pm.


  • The Mozart Requiem

    The Mozart Requiem

    Left unfinished at his death, Mozart’s Requiem is legendary. Jane Glover leads opera superstars Amanda Majeski and Eric Owens in this profoundly moving meditation on the endurance of genius and life’s fragility. Handel’s Coronation Anthems showcase the Music of the Baroque Chorus, “one of Chicago’s musical glories” (Opera News).

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    • Saturday, September 15, 7:30 PM Harris Theater, Chicago
    • Sunday, September 16, 3:00 PM North Shore Center, Skokie
  • The Four Seasons

    The Four Seasons

    The natural world springs to life in a beautifully evocative Baroque orchestral program. Nicholas Kraemer leads Vivaldi’s iconic Four Seasons with concertmaster Gina DiBello, a “superb musician” (Chicago Classical Review). Telemann pays homage to rivers in the fanciful and humorous Wassermusik, while Rameau’s Suite from Platée tells of a water nymph’s amorous escapades. 

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    • Sunday, November 4, 7:30 PM North Shore Center, Skokie
    • Monday, November 5, 7:30 PM Harris Theater, Chicago
  • The Christmas Oratorio

    The Christmas Oratorio

    From the heaven-storming timpani of the opening chorus, the Christmas story unfolds in dramatic narrative, moving arias, and inspiring chorales—performed with the power and passion Music of the Baroque always brings to Bach’s great choral works.

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  • Hewitt Plays Mozart

    Hewitt Plays Mozart

    Pianist Angela Hewitt, whom the New York Times
    calls “an artist of consummate technical skill and
    refinement,” makes her Music of the Baroque debut in
    Mozart’s shimmering Piano Concerto No. 27—the very
    last he wrote. The masterful “Gran Partita” for winds
    completes a program that shows why Maurice Ravel
    called Mozart “the greatest musician…our god.”

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  • The Grand Tour

    The Grand Tour

    A “gap year” is in vogue today—and it was in the
    17th and 18th centuries, too. Harry Bicket, Baroque
    specialist and artistic director of The English Concert,
    leads a lively musical reenactment of the grand
    European tour of young nobles and aristocrats, from
    London and Versailles to Venice and Munich.

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  • Hot Coffee—Bach & Haydn

    Hot Coffee—Bach & Haydn

    Jane Glover serves up a rich brew of Bach and
    Haydn, including Bach’s delightfully whimsical
    Coffee Cantata with soprano Joélle Harvey and
    energetic Orchestral Suite No. 2. Two symphonies
    by Haydn—the crackling Fire and the contemplative
    Philosopher—add a dash of Classical flavor.

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  • Pulpit & Playhouse—<br>Bach, Handel, Purcell

    Pulpit & Playhouse—
    Bach, Handel, Purcell

    Whether written for the chapel or crafted for the
    stage, Baroque music goes hand in hand with theater.
    Nicholas Kraemer leads Handel’s thrilling Dixit
    Dominus and Bach’s impassioned Cantata 131, “Out
    of the depths / I call, Lord, to you.” Excerpts from
    Purcell’s Fairy Queen, a perfect marriage of poetry
    and dance, round out a night of musical drama.

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