Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre

House of Time is joined by viola da gamba virtuoso Adam Young for a program that shines a light on works by one of the king’s favorite musicians, a child prodigy when she first moved to court. The refinement and elegance of Versailles comes through vividly in Elisabeth Jacquet’s gorgeous sonatas and trios. Also included is one of Rameau’s earliest masterpieces, the “Piece de clavecin en concert” in C minor, a work that treats the harpsichord and viola da gamba in dramatically inventive ways.

November 2 at 3 pm

The Lounge at Hudson View Gardens

128 Pinehurst Avenue (corner of West 185th)

New York, NY 10033

Looking for tickets for November 1 at Holy Trinity? Click here

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The Personal and Pious OCKEGHEM ~ Vray tresorier de musique

Dr. Richard Porterfield leads the Ensemble and Soloists in Ockeghem’s four Marian anthems: Alma Redemptoris Mater, Salve Regina I, Ave Maria, and Intemerata Dei Mater, Credo du Vilage, elegant and earthy Chansons, his De’ploration for Gilles Binchois, and Josquin’s De’ploration for Ockeghem.

Sunday, November 9 at 4 pm

Trinity Lutheran Church of Manhattan/

Iglesia Luterana Trinidad

164 West 100th Street, Manhattan

General admission ~ $25

Students free

Looking for tickets for 11/1 at Hudson View Gardens? Click here

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In honor of the 400th anniversary of Gibbons’ death, ARTEK performs music from The First Sett of Madrigals and Mottets of 5 parts apt for Viols and Voyces (1612).

Clara Rottsolk & Kim Leeds ~ sopranos

Nickolas Karageorgiou and Andrew Fuchs ~ tenors

Peter Becker ~ bass

with Arnie Tanimoto, Ryan Cheng, Charlie Reed, Nicholas Kleinman, Motomi Igarashi, Grant Herreid, and Gwendolyn Toth.

Friday, November 14 at 7 pm

Saturday, November 15 at 7 pm

Saint Ignatius of Antioch Church

264 West 87th Street between Broadway & West End Avenue, Manhattan

NOTE: Charges will appear on your credit card statement as “GOTHAM EARLY MUSIC SCENE” or “GEMS”. Please do not be alarmed when you see this charge designation. If you have any questions, please call us at 212-866-0468.

Back by popular demand!

Gwendolyn Toth plays keyboard music of Orlando Gibbons & his contemporaries

A special second chance to hear this unique concert with six keyboards!

Music by Orlando Gibbons, William Byrd, John Bull, Peter Philips, Heinrich Scheidemann, and Melchior Schildt, performed on a colorful array of six early keyboard instruments — virginal, muselar, regal, lautenwerk, organ, and harpsichord.

Friday, November 21 at 7 pm

Saint Ignatius of Antioch Church

264 West 87th Street between Broadway & West End Avenue, Manhattan

NOTE: Charges will appear on your credit card statement as “GOTHAM EARLY MUSIC SCENE” or “GEMS”. Please do not be alarmed when you see this charge designation. If you have any questions, please call us at 212-866-0468.

Handel’s Messiah

Trinity Choir; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Melissa Attebury, conductor

Experience the event of the season: New York’s most historic Messiah in its most glorious sacred space.   

Don’t miss Trinity Church’s renowned annual presentation of George Frideric Handel’s Messiah, hailed as no less than the “gold standard” by The New York Times. Featuring the peerless Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra, this “transcendent and awe-inspiring” Messiah has captivated audiences since it was first presented in 1770.

Trinity’s unique, historically informed version is performed on period instruments and sung in Baroque style in an acoustically rich space. This year for the first time the oratorio will be split into two parts, with performances around both Christmas and Easter, led by Trinity’s acclaimed Director of Music, Melissa Attebury.

December 10, 7–8:15 pm 

December 11, 7–8:15 pm 

December 12, 7–8:15 pm

Trinity Church, 89 Broadway, Manhattan

Wednesday, December 10 at 4 pm tickets are not for public sale.

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A Midwinter Feast

A holiday program of music from the British Isles, featuring beloved English medieval and Renaissance carols, including Angelus ad Virginum, Good People All, and Green Groweth the Holly. Also included are new arrangements of some traditional favorites, including In the Bleak Midwinter, The Coventry Carol, and The Holly and the Ivy. The program includes a setting of the medieval poem Winter Wakeneth by acclaimed British composer Andrew Lovett as well as an arrangement by Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek of There is no Rose, sung in Sean-nós style to the tune of an ancient Irish folk-ballad, The Lamentations of Deidre.

Church of St. Luke in the Fields

487 Hudson Street, Manhattan

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Handel’s Messiah, Part I plus more! Have you ever wondered why the Epiphany story of the Three Kings was not included in Messiah? Handel might have re-used some of his brilliant arias and choruses from his operas and oratorios! Here’s a chance to hear a new reimagined Messiah with the ARTEK Orchestra and Singers, in our annual New Year’s Day holiday concert.

Thursday, January 1 at 3 pm

Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church

264 West 87th Street between Broadway & West End Avenue, Manhattan

NOTE: Charges will appear on your credit card statement as “GOTHAM EARLY MUSIC SCENE” or “GEMS”. Please do not be alarmed when you see this charge designation. If you have any questions, please call us at 212-866-0468.

Our yearly Bach by Candlelight program offers a contemplative approach to the music of the great master, J.S. Bach, featuring House of Time’s signature versions of his eternal classics under soothing candlelight. Take a respite from the city’s hectic pace and let the meditative atmosphere set the stage for new thrills.

Friday, January 16 at 7 pm

The Lounge at Hudson View Gardens

128 Pinehurst Avenue (corner of West 185th)

New York, NY 10033

Looking for tickets for January 17 at Holy Trinity? Click here

NOTE: Charges will appear on your credit card statement as “GOTHAM EARLY MUSIC SCENE” or “GEMS”. Please do not be alarmed when you see this charge designation. If you have any questions, please call us at 212-866-0468.

Our yearly Bach by Candlelight program offers a contemplative approach to the music of the great master, J.S. Bach, featuring House of Time’s signature versions of his eternal classics under soothing candlelight. Take a respite from the city’s hectic pace and let the meditative atmosphere set the stage for new thrills.

Saturday, January 17 at 7 pm

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church

3 West 65 Street

New York, NY 10023

Looking for tickets for January 16 at The Lounge? Click here

NOTE: Charges will appear on your credit card statement as “GOTHAM EARLY MUSIC SCENE” or “GEMS”. Please do not be alarmed when you see this charge designation. If you have any questions, please call us at 212-866-0468.

Lully’s comédie-ballet was first performed in 1675 at the Academie Royale de Musique, created from favorite scenes from his earlier comedies. The libretto lampoons doctors, teachers, and lawyers, and includes the famous Marche pour la cérémonie des Turcs from Molière’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Arias in French, Italian, and Spanish, and delightful dance music.

Soloists include Christina Kay, soprano; Sarah Frei, soprano; Richard Pittsinger, haute-contre; Jonathan Woody, bass-baritone; and Peter Becker, bass, with ARTEK’s large French baroque orchestra led by Enrico Gatti – with over a dozen of our past Artist Fellows returning to join us.

Friday, January 23 at 7 pm (6:15 pre-concert talk by Rebecca Harris-Warrick)

Saturday, January 24 at 7 pm (6:15 pre-concert talk by Rebecca Harris-Warrick)

Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church

264 West 87th Street between Broadway & West End Avenue, Manhattan

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Mozart violin sonatas with Enrico Gatti and Gwendolyn Toth

Mozart’s most famous violin sonata in B-flat, K 454 was written for the Italian virtuosa, Regina Strinasacchi, who famously received the part only the night before the performance. Leopold Mozart said of her: “Her whole heart and soul is in the melody she delivers, and her power and beauty of tone are equally remarkable. I believe, as a rule, that a woman of genius plays with more expression than a man.”

Enrico Gatti, violin and Gwendolyn Toth, fortepiano play the Sonata in B-flat and other chamber works by Mozart.

Friday, February 20 at 7 pm

Saturday, February 21 at 7 pm

Saint Ignatius of Antioch Church

264 West 87th Street between Broadway & West End Avenue, Manhattan

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Harmonice Musices Odhecaton

Abendmusik Consort of Viols explores the Franco-Flemish influence represented in the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton (One Hundred Songs of Harmonic Music). Published in Venice in 1501 by Octaviano Petrucci, The Odhecaton is the earliest known publication of polyphonic music using moveable type. The pieces exist originally as vocal works, however in The Odhecaton the text is not underlayed, lending speculation that these pieces were intended to be played by an instrumental ensemble. The composers represented include Johannes Ockeghem, Josquin des Prez, Antoine Brumel, Antoine Busnois, Alexander Agricola, Jacob Obrecht, and Hayne van Ghizeghem, along with several anonymous works.

Thursday, March 5 at 7:30 pm

Church of St. Luke in the Fields, 487 Hudson Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan

Tickets:

$25 general

$15 students and seniors

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Johann Adam Reincken was the most important musician in Hamburg in the second half of the 17th century, and a great influence on the young Johann Sebastian Bach. As a teenager in Lüneburg from 1700–1703, Bach copied Reincken’s organ fantasia An Wasserflussen Babylon and arranged some of Reincken’s chamber music for keyboard. ARTEK performs selections from Reincken’s chamber music and harpsichord music, as well as ARTEK’s own versions of Reincken-inspired music of Bach.

Cynthia Freivogel and guest Tekla Cunningham ~ violins

Arnie Tanimoto ~ viola da gamba

Daniel Swenberg ~ Baroque lute

Gwendolyn Toth ~ harpsichord

Friday, April 10 at 7 pm (6:15 ~ pre-concert talk by Sara Ruhle Kyle)

Saturday, April 11 at 7 pm (6:15 ~ pre-concert talk by Sara Ruhle Kyle)

Saint Ignatius of Antioch Church

264 West 87th Street between Broadway & West End Avenue, Manhattan

NOTE: Charges will appear on your credit card statement as “GOTHAM EARLY MUSIC SCENE” or “GEMS”. Please do not be alarmed when you see this charge designation. If you have any questions, please call us at 212-866-0468.

House of Time returns to the transcendentally beautiful chamber music of the great genius, including the “Nachtmusik” quintet in C minor and a new chamber version of the “Marriage of Figaro” overture. Let the timeless elegance of Mozart’s compositions provide you with a respite from the hustle and bustle of our great city.

Friday, May 1 at 7 pm

The Lounge at Hudson View Gardens

128 Pinehurst Avenue (corner of West 185th)

New York, NY 10033

Looking for tickets for May 2 at St. Ignatius of Antioch? Click here

NOTE: Charges will appear on your credit card statement as “GOTHAM EARLY MUSIC SCENE” or “GEMS”. Please do not be alarmed when you see this charge designation. If you have any questions, please call us at 212-866-0468.

House of Time returns to the transcendentally beautiful chamber music of the great genius, including the “Nachtmusik” quintet in C minor and a new chamber version of the “Marriage of Figaro” overture. Let the timeless elegance of Mozart’s compositions provide you with a respite from the hustle and bustle of our great city.

Saturday, May 2 at 7 pm

Saint Ignatius of Antioch Church

264 West 87th Street between Broadway & West End Avenue, Manhattan

Looking for tickets for May 1 at The Lounge? Click here

NOTE: Charges will appear on your credit card statement as “GOTHAM EARLY MUSIC SCENE” or “GEMS”. Please do not be alarmed when you see this charge designation. If you have any questions, please call us at 212-866-0468.