The world of Baroque music will be brought to life in the Suk Hall by Czech Philharmonic bassoonist Martin Petrák and Ensemble Haydn. Their programme centres on the trio sonata—one of the era’s key forms—and includes both German and Czech compositions. A particular highlight will be Jan Dismas Zelenka’s masterful sonatas for woodwinds and continuo.

EPSG:4326

Czech Chamber Music Society • Haydn Ensemble

Rudolfinum

This chamber music concert spans a wide range from the Baroque to Viennese Classicism and Czech Modernism. Jan Dismas Zelenka and Johann Friedrich Fasch were contemporaries of Johann Sebastian Bach. Zelenka came from Bohemia and worked at the Saxon court in Dresden, while Fasch, from Thuringia, worked briefly in Prague. Ludwig van Beethoven composed his Cello sonata in G minor in Berlin and dedicated it to King Frederick William II of Prussia. The last two works on the program take us back to the Czech Republic. Leoš Janáček’s Pohádka tells the Russian fairy tale of Tsarevich Ivan and Princess Marya in a rhapsodic tone. Bohuslav Martinů initially studied in Prague and moved to Paris in 1923. There he absorbed various musical influences: the esprit of the Groupe des Six, the formal rigor of Igor Stravinsky and the nonchalance of jazz.

4. Chamber Music Concert

Liederhalle Cultural and Congress Center

Orchestra Concert 3

Ansbach Residence

In bloom

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud

Late French and German Baroque chamber music in the musical equivalent of 18th-century fine art’s rococo, the immediately appealing galante style—including Telemann’s “Paris” Quartet in G Major. Plus, Bach’s solo keyboard Toccata BWV 914. Judith Linsenberg (recorder) joins “Friday Gardens” regulars Lara Wickes (oboe), Elizabeth Blumenstock (violin), Michael Kaufman (cello) and Gabriel Arregui (harpsichord).

Galante in the Gardens

Sherman Library and Gardens

Stefan Filip, trumpet

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

In Passions Revealed, the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra takes you on a journey that dives into the rich, evocative, and stirring emotions found in works by Fasch, Locatelli, Vivaldi, Marais, Telemann, and Bach. 

The program explores a wide variety of colours and affects. We open with a rousing Fasch overture that conveys confidence and fearlessness. The strings are then featured in a hauntingly beautiful and wistful concerto grosso by Locatelli. A restless but ultimately hopeful journey through the night, from dusk to dawn, follows in Vivaldi's programmatic La Notte. We close the first half with a gorgeous celebration of love in the chaconne from Marais’s opera Alcyone.

Great Artists Series '24: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra "Passions Revealed"

560 Music Center

Tafelmusik, now in its 45th year, is one of the world’s preeminent Baroque orchestras. They will be lead by the superb Canadian violinist  Aisslinn Nosky, in a program of 18th century favorites that explore a wide variety of colors and emotions

Johann Friedrich Fasch

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Mar 17, 2026

Czech Chamber Music Society • Haydn Ensemble · Czech Philharmonic

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4. Chamber Music Concert · Staatsorchester Stuttgart

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