4 THURSDAY NIGHTS AT 7:30 PM -- PRE-CONCERT LECTURES AT 6:30 PM
Tickets: $45 general admission; $35 students/seniors; $150 season tickets
Musick for the Chapel Royal
October 22, 2026 - 7:30 PM (lecture at 6:30 PM)
Musick for the Chapel Royal: Tallis, Taverner and Sheppard
The Choir of St. Luke in the Fields
The English Chapel Royal, founded in the 14th century, was a traveling group of elite singers and priests who followed the Tudor monarchs between royal residences. The soaring polyphony of the Chapel Royal represents a golden age of English choral music. Composers crafted intricate harmonies using multiple independent singing lines woven together to echo off cathedral ceilings. The concert will present an array of music by Thomas Tallis, John Taverner and John Sheppard composed for the magnificent services for the royal household.
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A Bach Christmas
December 10, 2026 - 7:30 PM (lecture at 6:30 PM)
A Bach Christmas: Christmas cantatas including Christmas Oratorio, Part I (Jauchzet, frohlocket)|
and BWV 191 (Gloria in excelsis)
The Choir of St. Luke in the Fields
For much of his life Johann Sebastian Bach worked as a church composer, writing music to accompany services through the year. The joy of the Christmas season inspired some of his most brilliant and festive compositions. The concert will include Jauchzet, frohlocket! (the first cantata in the Christmas Oratorio), and Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191, composed in 1745. Three years later, Bach adapted much of the music from BWV 191 for the Gloria section of his monumental Mass in B Minor.
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CPE Bach - St Matthew Passion (1769 version)
March 4, 2027 7:30 pm (6:30 pm Lecture)
CPE Bach - St Matthew Passion (1769 version)
The Choir of St. Luke in the Fields
C.P.E. Bach (son of Johann Sebastian) continued his father's grand tradition of composing dramatic oratorio settings of the Passions for his churches in Hamburg. The original scores and performing materials for these Passions disappeared from Berlin during World War II and were believed lost. The rediscovery of the archives in 1999 in a back storeroom in Kiev made it possible, finally, to mount a modern performance. The St. Matthew Passion of 1769 is one of C.P.E.’s finest, sumptuously scored, and engagingly capturing the drama, agony and ultimate triumph found in the Holy Week story.
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The Splendor of the Spanish Renaissance
April 29, 2027 7:30 pm (6:30 pm Lecture)
The Splendor of the Spanish Renaissance: including Lobo Missa Maria Magdelene and Guerrero Maria Magdelene
The Choir of St. Luke in the Fields
Francisco Guerrero and Alonso Lobo were leading figures of the Spanish Renaissance. Guerrero, the maestro de capilla at Seville Cathedral, was Lobo’s teacher and mentor. In 1591, Lobo was appointed as Guerrero's assistant, eventually taking his place as director of the choir. Together, they represent the pinnacle of Spanish polyphony. The concert will feature Lobo’s gloriously radiant Missa Maria Magdalene, the ravishing Guerrero motet on which the mass is based and other works by both composers.
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