Classical Concerts in New England, January 2008

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Thursday, January 3, 2008 8:00 PM; Friday, January 4, 2008 1:30 PM; Saturday, January 5, 2008 8:00 PM; Tuesday, January 8, 2008 8:00 PM 

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Hall, Boston
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
Richard Strauss, Don Juan
Richard Strauss, Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
Modest Mussorgsky (orch. Ravel)Pictures at an Exhibition

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Saturday, January 5, 4 pm, Centre Congregational Church, Brattleboro

Brattleboro Music Center Concert
Violinist Elizabeth Chang & Pianist Judith Gordon
Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata in G Major, Op. 96
Leon Kirchner, Sonata Concertante
Johannes Brahms, Sonata in G Major, Op. 78

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Thursday, January 10, 2008 10:30 AM (rehearsal), 8:00 PM, Friday, January 11, 2008 1:30 PM, Saturday, January 12, 2008 8:00 PM 

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Hall, Boston
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor, Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 2
Richard Strauss, An Alpine Symphony

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January 11, 2008 8:00 PM, Jordan Hall, Boston

Handel and Haydn Society
Baroque Jewels with Philip Pickett

Philip Pickett, founding Music Director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and the New London Consort, makes his Handel and Haydn debut leading a tantalizing program of instrumental and vocal works by Purcell, Handel and Blow. Tony Award-winning actress Blair Brown, and actors Mark Blum and Mia Barron, under the direction of Nicholas Martin, Artistic Director of the Huntington Theatre Company, will perform dramatic readings.  Making their debuts with the Handel and Haydn Society will be Canadian soprano Nathalie Paulin and renowned baritone Jason Grant.

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Friday, January 11, 2008, 8:00 p.m.
Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall, Middlebury College

Takács Quartet
Edward Dusinberre, violin
Károly Schranz, violin
Geraldine Walther, viola
András Fejér, cello

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Saturday, January 12, 2008, at 7:30 PM at Caswell Library in Deerfield and Sunday, January 13, 2008, at 3:00 PM at Wistariahurst Museum in Holyoke

The English Orpheus
a program of English Baroque chamber music by Matthew Locke, Christopher Simpson, William Lawes, and Henry Purcell will feature violinist Dana Maiben, viola da gambist Alice Robbins, Tina Chancey playing violin and viol, and organist Gregory Hayes. Ian Watson will intersperse contemporary readings from Samuel Pepys, John Evelyn, Roger North, Christopher Simpson, and Henry Purcell.

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Sunday, January 13, 2008 3:00 PM
Boston Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players, Jordan Hall, Boston

Leif Ove Andsnes, piano 
Paula Murrihy, mezzo-soprano
Robert Schumann, Piano Trio No. 2 in F, Op. 80
Emanuel de Falla, El corregidor y la molinera, for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble

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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 7:30 PM, Thursday, January 17, 2008 8:00 PM, Friday, January 18, 2008 1:30 PM, Saturday, January 19, 2008 8:00 PM

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Hall, Boston
Sir Colin Davis, conductor, Mitsuko Uchida, piano

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 36, Linz
Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K.488 
Franz Schubert, Symphony No. 2

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January 16, 23, 12.15 pm, Chapin Hall, Williams College
Midweek Music

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The Greek Byzantine Choir, presented by the Boston Early Music Festival
Lycourgos Angelopoulos, director

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Thursday, January 24, 2008 8:00 PM, Friday, January 25, 2008 1:30 PM, Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:00 PM

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Hall, Boston
Sir Colin Davis, conductor
Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano
Ben Heppner, tenor
Gerald Finley, bass-baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor 

Sir Edward Elgar, The Dream of Gerontius

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Thursday, January 24-Monday, January 28

Asteria, sopnored by The Cambridge Society for Early Music
Sylvia Rhyne, soprano and Eric Redlinger, tenor & lute

A Rose of Such Virtue: Sacred and Secular Love in the Waning Middle Ages

CARLISLE Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 8pm
First Religious Society on the Common, 27 School Street

WESTON Friday, January 25, 2008 at 8pm
First Parish Church, 349 Boston Post Road

SALEM Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 8pm
Old North Church, 35 Washington Street

IPSWICH Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 4pm
The Heard House Museum, 54 South Main Street

CAMBRIDGE Monday, January 28, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Christ Church Auditorium, Zero Garden Street

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January 25, 8 pm & January 27 3 pm, 2008

George Fridieric Handel: Water Music, Suite No. 3
Johann Sebastian Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068
George Frideric Handel: Royal Fireworks Music, HWV 351
Henry Purcell: Selections from The Fairy Queen, Z.629

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January 26, Saturday 7:30 pmPalace Theatre, Albany
Albany Symphony Orchestra

A Special Evening with Joshua Bell
Peter Child: Washington Park (World Premiere)
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto, Joshua Bell, Violin 
Bernstein: “West Side Story” Suite for Violin and Orchestra, Joshua Bell, Violin
Strauss: Death and Transfiguration

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Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 8:00 pm, Emmanuel Church, Boston
Russell Sherman plays the English Suites of J. S. Bach, program No. 1 of 3 (continued February 2 and 9, at 8 pm)

English Suite No.2 in A minor, BWV 807
Russell Sherman, piano
Sonata No. 3 in G minor for Viola da Gamba and Keyboard, BWV 1028
Mary Ruth (UV) Ray, viola
Minsoo Sohn, piano
Chorale Prelude, In dir ist Freund, BWV 615 (Bach-Busoni)
Chorale Prelude, Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 (Bach-Busoni)
Minsoo Sohn, piano
English Suite No. 5 in E minor, BWV 810
Russell Sherman, piano

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Friday, 2/1/08 7:30 pm, Sunday, 2/3/08 3:00 pm, Tuesday, 2/5/08 7:30 pm

Opera Boston