Concerts 2022-23
Friday, September 30, 7:30 pm
Breathtaking Biber: Astonishing works for two violins by Heinrich Biber
This program will focus on works for two violins from the Harmonia artificioso-ariosa. These works press the violin to its limits, in music that is both astonishing and expressive. This program will feature two of the brightest Baroque violin stars, Susanna Ogata, and Christina Day Martinson, joined by Laura Jeppesen playing viola da gamba and Andrus Madsen on the harpsichord.
Saturday, October 22, 7:30 pm
A Fanny von Arnstein Viennese salon 1790
Fanny von Arnstein, the sister of Sarah Levy hosted brilliant salons in Vienna starting in the 1780s. She personally knew Haydn and Mozart and was a financial support to Mozart during some of his darkest times. She was a capable pianist, and engaging socialite, and arguably the most prominent Jewish woman of the century. This program features works that were likely performed at her salon, including Josef Haydn’s Arianna a Naxos, Nicola Porpora’s Abandonata e Sola, and Lieder by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Soprano, Audrey Luna couples her emotive and expressive musicality with Andrus Madsen's deft and creative keyboard skills at the fortepiano in this Newton Baroque offering.
Zephyrus and Chloris:
Trio Sonatas for Flute, Violin and Continuo
Friday November 11, 7:30 PM
Second Church in Newton
60 Highland Street, West Newton MA
Sunday, November 13, 4:00 PM
Emmaus Bible Church
17 Church Street, Carver MA
free admission
So often in Baroque music, the mixing of unlike things creates in the most beautiful outcomes. This concert features the brilliant combination of the flute and violin in trio sonatas by Telemann, Quantz, Vivaldi, Handel, and C. P. E. Bach.
Mary Oleskiewicz, flute; Sylvia Schwartz, violin;
Sarah Freiberg, cello; Andrus Madsen, harpsichord
Sunday Dec 11 10:00 AM
Vespers Music from 1730s Naples in the Sunday Morning Service at Second Church
Newton Baroque plays with the Chancel Choir at Second Church in Newton. Including the Dixit Dominus by Nicola Porpora and the Magnificat in B-flat by Francesco Durante.
Saturday, January 7, 7:30 PM
The Leipzig Candidates 1723: Bach, Telemann and Graupner
Johann Sebastian Bach was appointed Thomas Cantor in Leipzig in 1723 after the first two candidates declined the position. This concert features keyboard works by all three composers who were considered for this post that eventually went to J. S Bach.
Andrus Madsen - harpsichord.
Saturday February 4, 7:30 PM
Concerto delle Donne 1585: Music for the Three Ladies of Ferrara
Madrigals by Luzzaschi, De Wert and Marenzio written for three outstanding sopranos, Livia d’Arco, Laura Peverara, and Anna Guarini at the court of Alfonso d’Este. These women cultivated a style of ornamentation and new way of performing madrigals that had everything to do with what became the Baroque style.
Teresa Wakim, Angie Tyler and Shea Brown - soprano, Andrus Madsen - harpsichord.
Saturday March 4, 7:30 PM
A Parisian Salon 1715: The Salon by which all Other Salons Measure Themselves
Cantatas by Nicolas Bernier and Jean-Philippe Rameau as well as the celebrated Sonnerie de Sainte Genevieve du Mont de Paris by Marin Marias.
Jason McStoots - tenor, Susanna Ogata - violin, Laura Jeppesen - viola da gamba, Andrus Madsen - harpsichord.
Saturday April 1, 7:30 PM
The Clarion Cry: German Romantic Trios for Clarinet, Cello and Piano
Trios by Brahms, Clara Schumann, and Louise Farrenc on period instruments
Thomas Carroll - clarinet, Sarah Freiberg Ellison - cello, April Sun - piano
Friday April 7, 7:30 PM
A North German Good Friday, 1680
The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross by Heinrich Schütz, and other works for Good Friday in the context of a Tenebrae ritual, in a service at Second Church.
Saturday April 22, 7:30 PM
Marcello and Marcella: Cantatas by Benedetto Marcello and his Wife Rosanna Scalfi
This concert is a joint project between Newton Baroque, and Pegasus Early Music based in Rochester NY.
Laurie Heimes - soprano, Shiba Nematt-Nasser - alto, Deborah Fox - theorbo, Chris Haritatos - cello, Andrus Madsen - harpsichord
Saturday May 27, 7:30 PM
Johann Quantz in Memoriam: A Remembrance of the 250th Anniversary of His Death
A Retrospective of the Concerti, Quartettes, Trios and Sonatas of one of the most important performers and composers of the 18th Century.
Mary Oleskiewicz - flute, Christina Day Martinson, Jesse Irons - violin, Sarah Freiberg Ellison - cello, Andrus Madsen - fortepiano
Saturday June 17, 7:30 PM
Intentionally Unpremeditated: Blurring the Boundaries Between Written and Unscripted.
Jesse Irons - violin, and Andrus Madsen - harpsichord will improvise into and out of written works, in addition to offering several completely improvised musical experiences.
Concerts 2018-19
Clara Schumann at 200
Newton Baroque celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Clara Schumann September 13, 1819 with concerts in Boston and Newton featuring her Lieder with soprano Nicole Estima and Andrus Madsen playing original 19th century pianos. Also Robert August will play organ works written by Clara, or for her by Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms.
Friday, Sept 13, 7:30 pm, First Church Unitarian,
66 Marborough St., Boston
Saturday, Sept 14, 7:30 pm, Second Church in Newton
60 Highland St., West Newton
Music for Advent at the Sunday Morning Service
Newton Baroque joins the Chancel Choir at Second Church in Newton to perform the richly expressive cantata "Heulet, denn des Herrn Tage kommt" by Christop Graupner. At the service they will also offer up two arias by Telemann, the opening Chorus of Bach's "Nun komm der Heiden Heiland" BWV 62 as well as an incredible Ouverture for strings flutes and oboes by Chrisoph Graupner.
Sunday, Dec 15, 9:50 am
Second Church in Newton
60 Highland St., West Newton
Musica Napoletana: The Glory of Naples
Music from the the conservatories in in Naples which made Naples the shining star of Europe in the first half of the 18th Century. The concert will feature roaring concerti by Francesco Durante, a playful Sinfonia by Nicola Porpora, arias by Pergolesi and Hasse, and a ripping solo Motet "In furore iustissimae irae" by the outlier from Venice, Antonio Vivaldi.
Saturday, January 11, 7:30 pm
Daniel Lee, Emily Dahl violin, Sarah Freiberg Ellison cello
Nicole Estima soprano, Andrus Madsen harpsichord
Second Church in Newton
60 Highland St., West Newton
Southern Harmony: Music from the Munich and Stuttgart Courts
Susanna Ogata and Anna Griffis on violin team up with Andrus Madsen, harpsichord and Douglas Kelley, viola da gamba to perform works from Munich and Stuttgart by Johann Christoph Pez, Evaristo Dall'Abacco, and Giuseppe Brescianello.
Saturday, Februrary 15, 7:30 pm
Second Church in Newton
60 Highland St., West Newton
Concerts 2018-19
Celebrating Clara Schumann
Wednesday, October 3, 7:30 pm
Chamber Music and Lieder by Clara Wieck Schumann featuring Byron Schenkman and the beautiful 1870s Streicher piano at Second Church.
Second Church in Newton 60 Highland St, West Newton.
The Immigrant Song
Saturday, October 20, 7:30 pm
A Benefit Concert on behalf of the charity Sleep in Heavenly Peace, an organization making bunk beds for children in immigrant families. The concert will feature inspiring chamber music by unheralded immigrant composers.
Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St, West Newton.
Viola Victorious
Saturday, October 27, 7:30 pm
Astonishing chamber music from Berlin, featuring one or more violas. Including works by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Johann Gottlieb Graun and Johann Gottlieb Jannitsch performed by Sarah Darling and Anna Griffis.
Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St, West Newton.
A Bash for François
Saturday, November 10, 7:30 pm
A concert honoring François Couperin on the 350th anniversary of his birth, featuring celebrated works for solo harpsichord as well as a Concert Royaux.
Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St, West Newton.
Lieder Abend
Saturday, December 8, 7:30 pm
Solo and quartet performances of songs by Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Josef Rheinberger, and Johannes Brahms
Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St, West Newton.
Violin Unleashed
Saturday, January 12, 7:30 pm
Rambunctious repertoire for solo violin from late 17th Century Germany, featuring the incomparable Susanna Ogata. Have your mind blown by the violin fireworks in the sonatas of Dresden violinists Paul von Westhoff, Johann Jakob Walther.
Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St, West Newton.
Vermeer's Concert 1664
Saturday, February 9, 7:30 pm
A reconstruction of the domestic concert portrayed in Vermeer's 1664 painting entitled "The Concert" with Teresa Wakim and Nicole Estima soprano, Jason Priset lute, and Andrus Madsen harpsichord. The concert will feature repertoire that was in fashion in Holland in the 1660s.
The Suitest Thing
Saturday, March 9, 7:30 pm
Delicious Suites for Harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer, Johann Jakob Froberger and Andrus Madsen played by Andrus Madsen in a cozy salon setting at Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St, West Newton.
Excerpts from German Requiem by Johannes Brahms in the Sunday Service
Sunday, March 24, 10:00 am
1 Selig sind, die da Leid tragen,
4 Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen,
5 Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit,
7 Selig sind die Toten
With Newton Baroque and the Choir at Second Church in Newton
Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St, West Newton.
Free Admission
Stabat Mater in the Shadows
Friday, April 19, 7:30 pm
The Stabat Mater by Pergolesi performed by Nicole Estima and Tai Oney in a Service for Good Friday from 1730s Naples
Free Admission
Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St, West Newton.
Free Admission
The Wizards of Saxony
Saturday, May 11, 3:30 pm
Jesse Irons plays music by Johann Pisendel and his tremendous students, Johaann Gottlieb Graun and Franz Benda, who were certainly the three greatest violinists in Germany in the 1730s-1770s
Sarah Levy and the Ferocious Flutes
Saturday June 1, 7:30 pm
Flutists Mary Oleskiewicz and Christa Piehl Evans Team up with Andrus Madsen to play more ridiculously over the top music from Sarah Levy's circle of brilliant composers, including works by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, and Johann Gottfried Graun.
Concerts 2017-18
1620: Music the Pilgrims Loved to Hate
Papist Extravagance from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
Music by William Byrd, John Bull, Peter Phillips and more
Andrus Madsen, harpsichord
November 25, 7:30 pm
Second Church in Newton
60 Highland St, West Newton
November 26, 3:00 pm
St Elizabeth's Chapel
435 Concord Rd, Sudbury
Tickets: Adults - $30, Seniors - $25, Students - $10, Under 18 free admission.
Part I of the Christmas Oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach in context, the Christmas Oratorio in a Christmas Eve Service.
December 24 9:50 am
Second Church in Newton
60 Highland St, West Newton
Free Admission
Having a Blast with Bach and Telemann
Underwritten by the Abbot Academy Fund
Brandenburg Concerto II BWV 1047, Harpsichord Concerto in G Minor BWV 1058,
Johann Sebastian Bach
Overture in D for 2 Trumpets and Strings TWV 55:D18, Concerto for Oboe in C Minor TWV 51:c1, Georg Philipp Telemann
Hipocondrie ZWV 187, Jan Dismas Zelenka.
Soloists: Vincent Monaco, trumpet; Alison Gangler, oboe; Lisa Brooke, violin; Joyce Alper, recorder and oboe;
Andrus Madsen, harpsichord.
January 19, 7:30 pm
Phillips Academy, Kemper Auditorium
180 Main St, Andover MA
Free Admission
January 20, 7:30 pm
Second Church in Newton
60 Highland St, West Newton
Tickets: Adults - $30, Seniors - $25, Students - $10, Under 18 free admission.
Parlor Repartee: 18th Century Oboe Quartets
Quartets by Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, Johann Christian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Jiri Druzecky and Johann Baptist Vanhal
Alison Gangler, oboe; Lisa Brooke, violin; Odile Skarnes, Viola;
Colleen McGary Smith, violoncello; Andrus Madsen, fortepiano
February 3, 7:30 pm
Second Church in Newton
60 Highland St, West Newton
Tickets: Adults - $30, Seniors - $25, Students - $10, Under 18 free admission.
A Night with a Venetian Noble
Music by Benedetto Marcello for salon performance, including cantatas, cello sonatas and harpsichord sonatas.
Sarah Freiberg, cello; Tai Oney, countertenor; Andrus Madsen, harpsichord
March 17, 7:30 pm
Second Church in Newton
60 Highland St, West Newton.
Tickets: Adults - $30, Seniors - $25, Students - $10, Under 18 free admission.
Heavenly Harmony: Music by Henry Purcell and John Blow for Soprano and Organ
Featuring Grammy Winner soprano Teresa Wakim, and organist Andrus Madsen playing on a spectacular copy of an English Baroque Organ at St. Elizabeth's in Sudbury.
Sacred Songs and Organ Voluntaries by Purcell and Blow from the Chapel Royal.
April 28, 7:30 pm
St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Church
1 Morse Road, Sudbury
Tickets: Adults - $30, Seniors - $25, Students - $10, Under 18 free admission.
María Cristina Kiehr with Newton Baroque
The World Famous Argentinian early music soprano María Cristina Kiehr appears in concert with Newton Baroque
May 5, 7:30 pm
Second Church in Newton
60 Highland St, West Newton.
Tickets: Adults - $30, Seniors - $25, Students - $10, Under 18 free admission.
Byron Schenkman plays the Streicher
Byron Schenkman will deliver a program of 19th-century German music on the marvelous 1870s Viennese Piano at Second Church
June 23 7:30 pm
Second Church in Newton
60 Highland St, West Newton.
Tickets: Adults - $30, Seniors - $25, Students - $10, Under 18 free admission.
Concerts 2016-17
Biblical Proportions
Saturday, February 11, 7:30 pm
The Biblical Sonatas by Johann Kuhnau (1700)
Andrus Madsen - harpsichord
Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St., West Newton
Fantasies Awakened
Saturday, March 18, 7:30 pm
The Newly Rediscovered Fantasies for Viol by Georg Philipp Telemann
with Fantasies for Flute, Violin, Harpsichord, and a Paris Quartet
Laura Jeppesen and Douglas Kelley - viols
Mary Oleskiewicz - flute, Jesse Irons - violin
Andrus Madsen - harpsichord
Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St., West Newton
Finding Lost Petz
Saturday, April 8, 7:30 pm
Rare and Unknown Sonatas from the Duplex Genius Collection by Johann Christoph Petz
Susanna Ogata and Jesse Irons - violin
Douglas Kelley - viola da gamba, Sarah Freiberg Ellison - violoncello
Andrus Madsen - harpsichord
Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St., West Newton
Tenebrae Lessons from Munich 1580
Friday, April 14, 7:30 pm
Tenebrae Lessons and Other Sacred Works for Good Friday by Orlando di Lasso
Nicole Estima - soprano, Shiba Nemat-Nasser - alto,
Tom Oestling, Charley Blandy, Jason Connell - tenor,
Don Wilkinson - bass
Liederabend
Saturday, May 20, 7:30 pm
Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe and other 19th Century Lieder
with a stunning piano from 1870s Vienna
Pamela Dellal, Shiba Nemat-Nasser, Tom Oesterling, Julia Steinbok - voice
Andrus Madsen - piano
Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St., West Newton
In Memoriam Georg Philipp Telemann
Sunday, June 25, 5:00 pm
A Memorial of Georg Philipp Telemann on the 250th Anniversary of his Death
Including Cantatas and Various Chamber Music Sweets
Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St., West Newton
Tickets: Adults - $30, Seniors - $25, Students - $10, Under 18 free admission.
Concerts 2015-16
The Concerto Craze, Weimar 1715: Concerti from the Weimar Court
Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi, Albinoni, Torelli
Susanna Ogata, Daniel Lee, Jane Starkman, Katherine Winterstein – violins,
Mary Oleskiewicz – flute, Laura Jeppesen – viola, Sarah Freiberg – cello,
Andrus Madsen – harpsichord and director
September 12, 8:00 pm at Second Church in Newton
60 Highland Street, West Newton
September 13, 3:00 pm at the College Club of Boston
40 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA
Sonatas for Flute and Harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach
Mary Oleskiewicz – flute, Andrus Madsen – harpsichord
November 7, 8:00 pm at Second Church in Newton
60 Highland Street, West Newton
Chez Sara Levy, an 18th Century Berlin Salon: Sinfonie, Concerti, Sonatas and Arias by C.P.E. Bach, Benda and Graun
Jesse Irons, Katherine Winterstein – violin, Mary Oleskiewicz – flute,
Laura Jeppesen – viola and viola da gamba, Jay Elfenbein – bass and viola da gamba,
Shirley Hunt – cello, Andrus Madsen – pianoforte and director
November 21, 8:00 pm at Second Church in Newton
60 Highland Street, West Newton
November 22, 3:00 pm at the College Club of Boston
40 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA
A Spanish Christmas with Exsultemus
Music by Corselli, Pla, Durante, and others
December 13, 3:00 pm at First Lutheran Church of Boston, 299 Berkely St., Boston MA
Tickets available at exsultemus.org
The Italian Invasion: Venetian charm overwhelms the Musicians of Lübeck
Music of Giovanni Rigatti, Giovanni Rovetta, Franz Tunder, Dietrich Buxtehude and more.
Featuring Teresa Wakim - Soprano, Shiba Nemat Nasser - Mezzo Soprano, and Paul Guttry - Bass,
Susanna Ogata and Julia Mckenzie - Violin, Douglas Kelley, Emily Walhaut and Jay Elfenbein - Viols,
Andrus Madsen - Harpsichord
January 9, 8:00 pm at Second Church in Newton
60 Highland Street, West Newton
Lieder at Goethe Institute: Emanuel Bach, Mozart, Schubert
Pamela Dellal and Shiba Nemat Nasser with Andrus Madsen - fortepiano
Feb 21, 3:00 pm at the Goethe Institute, 170 Beacon St, Boston MA
Vivaldi Op 2: The sumptuous and seldom heard solo sonatas from 1709
Susanna Ogata, Sarah Freiberg, and Andrus Madsen
April 16, 8:00 pm at Second Church in Newton
60 Highland Street, West Newton
Bach to the Future: Bach’s Sonatas for violin and keyboard through the lens of C.P.E. Bach.
This concert will feature sonatas on violin and fortepiano by J. S. Bach and C. P. E. Bach.
Emily Dahl Irons and Andrus Madsen - fortepiano
May 14, 8:00 pm at Second Church in Newton
60 Highland Street, West Newton
In Memoriam Johann Jakob Froberger: Johann Jakob Froberger was perhaps the most widely beloved harpsichordist of the 17th Century. In this concert we celebrate the 400th anniversary of his birth.
Andrus Madsen - harpsichord
May 20, 8:00 pm at Second Church in Newton
60 Highland Street, West Newton
Friday, September 30, 7:30 pm
Breathtaking Biber: Astonishing works for two violins by Heinrich Biber
This program will focus on works for two violins from the Harmonia artificioso-ariosa. These works press the violin to its limits, in music that is both astonishing and expressive. This program will feature two of the brightest Baroque violin stars, Susanna Ogata, and Christina Day Martinson, joined by Laura Jeppesen playing viola da gamba and Andrus Madsen on the harpsichord.
Saturday, October 22, 7:30 pm
A Fanny von Arnstein Viennese salon 1790
Fanny von Arnstein, the sister of Sarah Levy hosted brilliant salons in Vienna starting in the 1780s. She personally knew Haydn and Mozart and was a financial support to Mozart during some of his darkest times. She was a capable pianist, and engaging socialite, and arguably the most prominent Jewish woman of the century. This program features works that were likely performed at her salon, including Josef Haydn’s Arianna a Naxos, Nicola Porpora’s Abandonata e Sola, and Lieder by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Soprano, Audrey Luna couples her emotive and expressive musicality with Andrus Madsen's deft and creative keyboard skills at the fortepiano in this Newton Baroque offering.
Zephyrus and Chloris:
Trio Sonatas for Flute, Violin and Continuo
Friday November 11, 7:30 PM
Second Church in Newton
60 Highland Street, West Newton MA
Sunday, November 13, 4:00 PM
Emmaus Bible Church
17 Church Street, Carver MA
free admission
So often in Baroque music, the mixing of unlike things creates in the most beautiful outcomes. This concert features the brilliant combination of the flute and violin in trio sonatas by Telemann, Quantz, Vivaldi, Handel, and C. P. E. Bach.
Mary Oleskiewicz, flute; Sylvia Schwartz, violin;
Sarah Freiberg, cello; Andrus Madsen, harpsichord
Sunday Dec 11 10:00 AM
Vespers Music from 1730s Naples in the Sunday Morning Service at Second Church
Newton Baroque plays with the Chancel Choir at Second Church in Newton. Including the Dixit Dominus by Nicola Porpora and the Magnificat in B-flat by Francesco Durante.
Saturday, January 7, 7:30 PM
The Leipzig Candidates 1723: Bach, Telemann and Graupner
Johann Sebastian Bach was appointed Thomas Cantor in Leipzig in 1723 after the first two candidates declined the position. This concert features keyboard works by all three composers who were considered for this post that eventually went to J. S Bach.
Andrus Madsen - harpsichord.
Saturday February 4, 7:30 PM
Concerto delle Donne 1585: Music for the Three Ladies of Ferrara
Madrigals by Luzzaschi, De Wert and Marenzio written for three outstanding sopranos, Livia d’Arco, Laura Peverara, and Anna Guarini at the court of Alfonso d’Este. These women cultivated a style of ornamentation and new way of performing madrigals that had everything to do with what became the Baroque style.
Teresa Wakim, Angie Tyler and Shea Brown - soprano, Andrus Madsen - harpsichord.
Saturday March 4, 7:30 PM
A Parisian Salon 1715: The Salon by which all Other Salons Measure Themselves
Cantatas by Nicolas Bernier and Jean-Philippe Rameau as well as the celebrated Sonnerie de Sainte Genevieve du Mont de Paris by Marin Marias.
Jason McStoots - tenor, Susanna Ogata - violin, Laura Jeppesen - viola da gamba, Andrus Madsen - harpsichord.
Saturday April 1, 7:30 PM
The Clarion Cry: German Romantic Trios for Clarinet, Cello and Piano
Trios by Brahms, Clara Schumann, and Louise Farrenc on period instruments
Thomas Carroll - clarinet, Sarah Freiberg Ellison - cello, April Sun - piano
Friday April 7, 7:30 PM
A North German Good Friday, 1680
The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross by Heinrich Schütz, and other works for Good Friday in the context of a Tenebrae ritual, in a service at Second Church.
Saturday April 22, 7:30 PM
Marcello and Marcella: Cantatas by Benedetto Marcello and his Wife Rosanna Scalfi
This concert is a joint project between Newton Baroque, and Pegasus Early Music based in Rochester NY.
Laurie Heimes - soprano, Shiba Nematt-Nasser - alto, Deborah Fox - theorbo, Chris Haritatos - cello, Andrus Madsen - harpsichord
Saturday May 27, 7:30 PM
Johann Quantz in Memoriam: A Remembrance of the 250th Anniversary of His Death
A Retrospective of the Concerti, Quartettes, Trios and Sonatas of one of the most important performers and composers of the 18th Century.
Mary Oleskiewicz - flute, Christina Day Martinson, Jesse Irons - violin, Sarah Freiberg Ellison - cello, Andrus Madsen - fortepiano
Saturday June 17, 7:30 PM
Intentionally Unpremeditated: Blurring the Boundaries Between Written and Unscripted.
Jesse Irons - violin, and Andrus Madsen - harpsichord will improvise into and out of written works, in addition to offering several completely improvised musical experiences.
Concerts 2018-19
Clara Schumann at 200
Newton Baroque celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Clara Schumann September 13, 1819 with concerts in Boston and Newton featuring her Lieder with soprano Nicole Estima and Andrus Madsen playing original 19th century pianos. Also Robert August will play organ works written by Clara, or for her by Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms.
Friday, Sept 13, 7:30 pm, First Church Unitarian,
66 Marborough St., Boston
Saturday, Sept 14, 7:30 pm, Second Church in Newton
60 Highland St., West Newton
Music for Advent at the Sunday Morning Service
Newton Baroque joins the Chancel Choir at Second Church in Newton to perform the richly expressive cantata "Heulet, denn des Herrn Tage kommt" by Christop Graupner. At the service they will also offer up two arias by Telemann, the opening Chorus of Bach's "Nun komm der Heiden Heiland" BWV 62 as well as an incredible Ouverture for strings flutes and oboes by Chrisoph Graupner.
Sunday, Dec 15, 9:50 am
Second Church in Newton
60 Highland St., West Newton
Musica Napoletana: The Glory of Naples
Music from the the conservatories in in Naples which made Naples the shining star of Europe in the first half of the 18th Century. The concert will feature roaring concerti by Francesco Durante, a playful Sinfonia by Nicola Porpora, arias by Pergolesi and Hasse, and a ripping solo Motet "In furore iustissimae irae" by the outlier from Venice, Antonio Vivaldi.
Saturday, January 11, 7:30 pm
Daniel Lee, Emily Dahl violin, Sarah Freiberg Ellison cello
Nicole Estima soprano, Andrus Madsen harpsichord
Second Church in Newton
60 Highland St., West Newton
Southern Harmony: Music from the Munich and Stuttgart Courts
Susanna Ogata and Anna Griffis on violin team up with Andrus Madsen, harpsichord and Douglas Kelley, viola da gamba to perform works from Munich and Stuttgart by Johann Christoph Pez, Evaristo Dall'Abacco, and Giuseppe Brescianello.
Saturday, Februrary 15, 7:30 pm
Second Church in Newton
60 Highland St., West Newton
Concerts 2018-19
Celebrating Clara Schumann
Wednesday, October 3, 7:30 pm
Chamber Music and Lieder by Clara Wieck Schumann featuring Byron Schenkman and the beautiful 1870s Streicher piano at Second Church.
Second Church in Newton 60 Highland St, West Newton.
The Immigrant Song
Saturday, October 20, 7:30 pm
A Benefit Concert on behalf of the charity Sleep in Heavenly Peace, an organization making bunk beds for children in immigrant families. The concert will feature inspiring chamber music by unheralded immigrant composers.
Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St, West Newton.
Viola Victorious
Saturday, October 27, 7:30 pm
Astonishing chamber music from Berlin, featuring one or more violas. Including works by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Johann Gottlieb Graun and Johann Gottlieb Jannitsch performed by Sarah Darling and Anna Griffis.
Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St, West Newton.
A Bash for François
Saturday, November 10, 7:30 pm
A concert honoring François Couperin on the 350th anniversary of his birth, featuring celebrated works for solo harpsichord as well as a Concert Royaux.
Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St, West Newton.
Lieder Abend
Saturday, December 8, 7:30 pm
Solo and quartet performances of songs by Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Josef Rheinberger, and Johannes Brahms
Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St, West Newton.
Violin Unleashed
Saturday, January 12, 7:30 pm
Rambunctious repertoire for solo violin from late 17th Century Germany, featuring the incomparable Susanna Ogata. Have your mind blown by the violin fireworks in the sonatas of Dresden violinists Paul von Westhoff, Johann Jakob Walther.
Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St, West Newton.
Vermeer's Concert 1664
Saturday, February 9, 7:30 pm
A reconstruction of the domestic concert portrayed in Vermeer's 1664 painting entitled "The Concert" with Teresa Wakim and Nicole Estima soprano, Jason Priset lute, and Andrus Madsen harpsichord. The concert will feature repertoire that was in fashion in Holland in the 1660s.
The Suitest Thing
Saturday, March 9, 7:30 pm
Delicious Suites for Harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer, Johann Jakob Froberger and Andrus Madsen played by Andrus Madsen in a cozy salon setting at Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St, West Newton.
Excerpts from German Requiem by Johannes Brahms in the Sunday Service
Sunday, March 24, 10:00 am
1 Selig sind, die da Leid tragen,
4 Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen,
5 Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit,
7 Selig sind die Toten
With Newton Baroque and the Choir at Second Church in Newton
Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St, West Newton.
Free Admission
Stabat Mater in the Shadows
Friday, April 19, 7:30 pm
The Stabat Mater by Pergolesi performed by Nicole Estima and Tai Oney in a Service for Good Friday from 1730s Naples
Free Admission
Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St, West Newton.
Free Admission
The Wizards of Saxony
Saturday, May 11, 3:30 pm
Jesse Irons plays music by Johann Pisendel and his tremendous students, Johaann Gottlieb Graun and Franz Benda, who were certainly the three greatest violinists in Germany in the 1730s-1770s
Sarah Levy and the Ferocious Flutes
Saturday June 1, 7:30 pm
Flutists Mary Oleskiewicz and Christa Piehl Evans Team up with Andrus Madsen to play more ridiculously over the top music from Sarah Levy's circle of brilliant composers, including works by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, and Johann Gottfried Graun.
Concerts 2017-18
1620: Music the Pilgrims Loved to Hate
Papist Extravagance from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
Music by William Byrd, John Bull, Peter Phillips and more
Andrus Madsen, harpsichord
November 25, 7:30 pm
Second Church in Newton
60 Highland St, West Newton
November 26, 3:00 pm
St Elizabeth's Chapel
435 Concord Rd, Sudbury
Tickets: Adults - $30, Seniors - $25, Students - $10, Under 18 free admission.
Part I of the Christmas Oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach in context, the Christmas Oratorio in a Christmas Eve Service.
December 24 9:50 am
Second Church in Newton
60 Highland St, West Newton
Free Admission
Having a Blast with Bach and Telemann
Underwritten by the Abbot Academy Fund
Brandenburg Concerto II BWV 1047, Harpsichord Concerto in G Minor BWV 1058,
Johann Sebastian Bach
Overture in D for 2 Trumpets and Strings TWV 55:D18, Concerto for Oboe in C Minor TWV 51:c1, Georg Philipp Telemann
Hipocondrie ZWV 187, Jan Dismas Zelenka.
Soloists: Vincent Monaco, trumpet; Alison Gangler, oboe; Lisa Brooke, violin; Joyce Alper, recorder and oboe;
Andrus Madsen, harpsichord.
January 19, 7:30 pm
Phillips Academy, Kemper Auditorium
180 Main St, Andover MA
Free Admission
January 20, 7:30 pm
Second Church in Newton
60 Highland St, West Newton
Tickets: Adults - $30, Seniors - $25, Students - $10, Under 18 free admission.
Parlor Repartee: 18th Century Oboe Quartets
Quartets by Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, Johann Christian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Jiri Druzecky and Johann Baptist Vanhal
Alison Gangler, oboe; Lisa Brooke, violin; Odile Skarnes, Viola;
Colleen McGary Smith, violoncello; Andrus Madsen, fortepiano
February 3, 7:30 pm
Second Church in Newton
60 Highland St, West Newton
Tickets: Adults - $30, Seniors - $25, Students - $10, Under 18 free admission.
A Night with a Venetian Noble
Music by Benedetto Marcello for salon performance, including cantatas, cello sonatas and harpsichord sonatas.
Sarah Freiberg, cello; Tai Oney, countertenor; Andrus Madsen, harpsichord
March 17, 7:30 pm
Second Church in Newton
60 Highland St, West Newton.
Tickets: Adults - $30, Seniors - $25, Students - $10, Under 18 free admission.
Heavenly Harmony: Music by Henry Purcell and John Blow for Soprano and Organ
Featuring Grammy Winner soprano Teresa Wakim, and organist Andrus Madsen playing on a spectacular copy of an English Baroque Organ at St. Elizabeth's in Sudbury.
Sacred Songs and Organ Voluntaries by Purcell and Blow from the Chapel Royal.
April 28, 7:30 pm
St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Church
1 Morse Road, Sudbury
Tickets: Adults - $30, Seniors - $25, Students - $10, Under 18 free admission.
María Cristina Kiehr with Newton Baroque
The World Famous Argentinian early music soprano María Cristina Kiehr appears in concert with Newton Baroque
May 5, 7:30 pm
Second Church in Newton
60 Highland St, West Newton.
Tickets: Adults - $30, Seniors - $25, Students - $10, Under 18 free admission.
Byron Schenkman plays the Streicher
Byron Schenkman will deliver a program of 19th-century German music on the marvelous 1870s Viennese Piano at Second Church
June 23 7:30 pm
Second Church in Newton
60 Highland St, West Newton.
Tickets: Adults - $30, Seniors - $25, Students - $10, Under 18 free admission.
Concerts 2016-17
Biblical Proportions
Saturday, February 11, 7:30 pm
The Biblical Sonatas by Johann Kuhnau (1700)
Andrus Madsen - harpsichord
Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St., West Newton
Fantasies Awakened
Saturday, March 18, 7:30 pm
The Newly Rediscovered Fantasies for Viol by Georg Philipp Telemann
with Fantasies for Flute, Violin, Harpsichord, and a Paris Quartet
Laura Jeppesen and Douglas Kelley - viols
Mary Oleskiewicz - flute, Jesse Irons - violin
Andrus Madsen - harpsichord
Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St., West Newton
Finding Lost Petz
Saturday, April 8, 7:30 pm
Rare and Unknown Sonatas from the Duplex Genius Collection by Johann Christoph Petz
Susanna Ogata and Jesse Irons - violin
Douglas Kelley - viola da gamba, Sarah Freiberg Ellison - violoncello
Andrus Madsen - harpsichord
Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St., West Newton
Tenebrae Lessons from Munich 1580
Friday, April 14, 7:30 pm
Tenebrae Lessons and Other Sacred Works for Good Friday by Orlando di Lasso
Nicole Estima - soprano, Shiba Nemat-Nasser - alto,
Tom Oestling, Charley Blandy, Jason Connell - tenor,
Don Wilkinson - bass
Liederabend
Saturday, May 20, 7:30 pm
Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe and other 19th Century Lieder
with a stunning piano from 1870s Vienna
Pamela Dellal, Shiba Nemat-Nasser, Tom Oesterling, Julia Steinbok - voice
Andrus Madsen - piano
Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St., West Newton
In Memoriam Georg Philipp Telemann
Sunday, June 25, 5:00 pm
A Memorial of Georg Philipp Telemann on the 250th Anniversary of his Death
Including Cantatas and Various Chamber Music Sweets
Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St., West Newton
Tickets: Adults - $30, Seniors - $25, Students - $10, Under 18 free admission.
Concerts 2015-16
The Concerto Craze, Weimar 1715: Concerti from the Weimar Court
Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi, Albinoni, Torelli
Susanna Ogata, Daniel Lee, Jane Starkman, Katherine Winterstein – violins,
Mary Oleskiewicz – flute, Laura Jeppesen – viola, Sarah Freiberg – cello,
Andrus Madsen – harpsichord and director
September 12, 8:00 pm at Second Church in Newton
60 Highland Street, West Newton
September 13, 3:00 pm at the College Club of Boston
40 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA
Sonatas for Flute and Harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach
Mary Oleskiewicz – flute, Andrus Madsen – harpsichord
November 7, 8:00 pm at Second Church in Newton
60 Highland Street, West Newton
Chez Sara Levy, an 18th Century Berlin Salon: Sinfonie, Concerti, Sonatas and Arias by C.P.E. Bach, Benda and Graun
Jesse Irons, Katherine Winterstein – violin, Mary Oleskiewicz – flute,
Laura Jeppesen – viola and viola da gamba, Jay Elfenbein – bass and viola da gamba,
Shirley Hunt – cello, Andrus Madsen – pianoforte and director
November 21, 8:00 pm at Second Church in Newton
60 Highland Street, West Newton
November 22, 3:00 pm at the College Club of Boston
40 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA
A Spanish Christmas with Exsultemus
Music by Corselli, Pla, Durante, and others
December 13, 3:00 pm at First Lutheran Church of Boston, 299 Berkely St., Boston MA
Tickets available at exsultemus.org
The Italian Invasion: Venetian charm overwhelms the Musicians of Lübeck
Music of Giovanni Rigatti, Giovanni Rovetta, Franz Tunder, Dietrich Buxtehude and more.
Featuring Teresa Wakim - Soprano, Shiba Nemat Nasser - Mezzo Soprano, and Paul Guttry - Bass,
Susanna Ogata and Julia Mckenzie - Violin, Douglas Kelley, Emily Walhaut and Jay Elfenbein - Viols,
Andrus Madsen - Harpsichord
January 9, 8:00 pm at Second Church in Newton
60 Highland Street, West Newton
Lieder at Goethe Institute: Emanuel Bach, Mozart, Schubert
Pamela Dellal and Shiba Nemat Nasser with Andrus Madsen - fortepiano
Feb 21, 3:00 pm at the Goethe Institute, 170 Beacon St, Boston MA
Vivaldi Op 2: The sumptuous and seldom heard solo sonatas from 1709
Susanna Ogata, Sarah Freiberg, and Andrus Madsen
April 16, 8:00 pm at Second Church in Newton
60 Highland Street, West Newton
Bach to the Future: Bach’s Sonatas for violin and keyboard through the lens of C.P.E. Bach.
This concert will feature sonatas on violin and fortepiano by J. S. Bach and C. P. E. Bach.
Emily Dahl Irons and Andrus Madsen - fortepiano
May 14, 8:00 pm at Second Church in Newton
60 Highland Street, West Newton
In Memoriam Johann Jakob Froberger: Johann Jakob Froberger was perhaps the most widely beloved harpsichordist of the 17th Century. In this concert we celebrate the 400th anniversary of his birth.
Andrus Madsen - harpsichord
May 20, 8:00 pm at Second Church in Newton
60 Highland Street, West Newton