Composer

This collection of Baroque Christmas concertos brings together touching pages, at times rustic, naïve or spiritual. These works have been grouped together on an album that has been a huge success ever since, and has even prompted a reissue. A great lover of Christmas traditions, Bernard Labadie revisits these beautiful Baroque pages, with the precision of a goldsmith and the candor of a child.

For Christmas Eve

Palais Montcalm

A celebration of Venetian music, the centerpiece of this performance is a suite of dance music from Andrè Campra’s ground-breaking 1699 Venetian opera-ballet Le Carnaval de Venise. A soulful concerto by Verona and Bologna-based composer Giuseppe Torelli and a brilliant concerto for strings by Vivaldi rounds out the program. 

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SFCM Baroque Orchestra Concert

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

The festive concertos by the Italians Locatelli, Manfredini and Torelli, along with Albinoni's tender Adagio, are an integral part of the Christmas season not only in Italy. In Austria, too, the high holidays in the Christian calendar were a busy time. Michael Haydn left behind more than thirty masses, including the Missa Sancti Aloysii composed in 1777 for his "dear choirboys" from the Salzburg Kapellhaus for the memorial day of the Holy Innocents on December 28th, as well as his last completed work, the Missa Sancti Leopoldi. The motet by the Spanish composer Tomás Luis de Victoria and the a cappella choir "The Angels and the Shepherds" by the Hungarian Zóltan Kodaly round off the program. "Developing one's own sound world and being able to express emotions in sounds" has been an important concern of the cellist Manuel Fischer-Dieskau for several years. The title of his new composition "He who sits on the throne laughs" comes from the 2nd Psalm and for him builds "a mental/visual bridge to the ever-laughing Franz Xaver Ohnesorg", to whom he dedicates this composition in loving memory.

Christmas is coming soon

Museum Ludwig

Savour the magic of Christmas in extracts from Britten’s Ceremony of Carols interspersed with enchanting movements from his Simple Symphony, inspired by his childhood. Torelli’s lively Christmas Concerto brings us back in time. Feel the joy and simplicity of Mozart’s much loved Ave Verum Corpus. The delicacy and fragility of Warlock’s popular Capriol Suite will entrance audiences. Carol of the Bells, We Three Kings alongside Eric Whitacre’s heavenly Glow, a Disney festive song will seduce you. Bask in the tranquillity of Higgins's arrangement of Still, Still Still with a modern twist and fresh harmonies. O Come all ye Faithful and Silent Night close out this Christmas cracker!

Irish Chamber Orchestra - A Choral Christmas

Royal Irish Academy of Music

Today’s most celebrated bel canto tenor joins us as a Mosher guest artist to perform a recital themed ‘Songs of My Youth,’ featuring arias from his signature roles, Italian art songs, and spirituals, with teaching artist JOHN CHURCHWELL on the piano.

Lawrence Brownlee & Jonathan Churchwell

Music Academy of the West

Evan Daniel Schreiber, Trumpet

The Juilliard School

Fans of Baroque music need look no further — join us for a concert that showcases SPCO members both as soloists and as stellar chamber musicians! Following Arcangelo Corelli’s titular Concerto Grosso, a full-bodied work that is both mournful and energetic, SPCO trumpeter Lynn Erickson will play a dazzling Baroque concerto. Works by Georg Philipp Telemann and Antonio Vivaldi provide unique instrumentations that highlight the musical diversity of the SPCO, while Philip Glass’ Echorus for Two Violins and Strings brings a minimalist sensibility — an ethereal heartbeat through the light pulse of SPCO musicians in unison.


Corelli’s Christmas Concerto

Capri Theater

Temple Israel

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Music from the Baroque era stimulates the senses, lifts the spirits, and inspires faith in all things good. The evolution of everything in music—from the art of counterpoint to the invention of new forms—transformed Baroque composers into unstoppable creators as they experimented with new musical styles and combinations of instruments. In this opening concert, we’ll experience six trailblazing composers showing their skills in a colorful collection of instruments and ensembles.

Concert Program I: Baroque Splendor

Menlo School Campus

First-year students in Boston Conservatory's voice program present a recital of Italian songs.

Class Recital: First-Year Voice Students’ Italian Recital

Boston Conservatory at Berklee

The 2022 Festival kicks off with a beautiful evening of Baroque music at the picturesque setting of Serra Chapel and featuring a concerto performance by Mozaic Artist-in-Residence Abigel Kralik.

Composer

Giuseppe Torelli

Events

Upcoming events

Apr 16, 2026

5. Chamber Concert · Theater Lübeck

Past events

Dec 11, 2025

For Christmas Eve · Les Violons du Roy

Oct 12, 2025

SFCM Baroque Orchestra Concert · San Francisco Conservatory of Music

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