Early music – Upcoming Concerts

Featuring Dan McCarthy's serenading on different types of "violas," perhaps unfamiliar to audiences and many performers!

Join a jam session with lute legends!

Early Music Seattle and the Frye Art Museum are thrilled to present "Lute Legends: Trade, Conquest, and the Lute," a trio of players who br…

Listen to advanced students from Juilliard's Historical Performance department perform historical music on period instruments. Engage in co…

George Frideric Handel — Aminta e Fillide, HWV 83
Antonio Vivaldi — Sinfonia from Il Giustino, RV 717

Don’t just attend concerts at the EMS Festival this weekend—come musick with us! Join Lindsey Strand-Polyak and the New Baroque Orchestra a…

Johann Sebastian Bach — Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009
Johann Sebastian Bach — Violin Sonata No. 6 in G major, BWV 1019
Johann Sebastian Bach — Italienisches Konzert ("Italian Concerto"), BWV 971
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber — Mystery (Rosary) Sonata No. 1 in D minor "The Annunciation"
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber — Mystery (Rosary) Sonata No. 10 in G minor "The Crucifixion"
Johann Kuhnau — Biblical Sonata No. 1 in C major "The Combat Between David and Goliath"
Alessandro Stradella — Trio Sonata in D minor

Johann Adolph Hasse — Selected works (instrumental selections TBA)
Antonio Vivaldi — Selected works (instrumental selections TBA)
Antonio Vivaldi — Trio Sonata in D minor, Op. 1, No. 12, RV 63 "La Follia"
Antonio Vivaldi — "III. Ad te suspiranos" from Salve regina, RV 616
Antonio Vivaldi — Nisi Dominus, RV 608 ("VIII. Sicut era in principio " & "IX. Amen")
Baldassare Galuppi — Confitebor tibi Domine in G major, B.II.6

Featuring Ronnie Malley, Lucas Harris, and Wen Zhao, the Lute Legends Collective is a performing association of musicians who represent anc…

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber — Rosenkranzsonaten ("Rosary Sonatas" or "Mystery Sonatas")

Johann Samuel Endler — Sinfonia à 7 in F major, CobE 13
Antonio Vivaldi — Bassoon Concerto in E minor, RV 484
Johann Sebastian Bach — Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F minor, BWV 1056
Georg Philipp Telemann — Horn Concerto in D major, TWV 51:D8
Antonio Vivaldi — Concerto for 2 Cellos in G minor, RV 531
Georg Philipp Telemann — Flute Concerto in D major, TWV 51:D2
Johann Sebastian Bach — Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068

Johann Michael Bach — Unser Leben währet siebenzig jahr
Johann Sebastian Bach — Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat major, BWV 1051
Johann Sebastian Bach — Komm, du süße Todesstunde, BWV 161
Johann Sebastian Bach — Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn, BWV 23
Francesca Caccini — Selected works (3 Italian madrigals for soprano & harpsichord TBA)

The St. John | San Juan concert series presents The Lute Legends Collective, an ensemble that performs the music of ancient plucked string …

Anselm Viola — Sonata del Monasterio de Montserrat in D major
George Frideric Handel — Organ Concerto in D minor, Op. 7, No. 4, HWV 309 ("I. Adagio" & "III. Allegro")
Georg Böhm — Prelude, Fugue, and Postlude in G minor
Dietrich Buxtehude — Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BuxWV 223
Johann Caspar Kerll — Capriccio Sopra'il Cucu
Nicolaus Bruhns — "Great" Praeludium in E minor

Every Sunday evening at 9:30pm (Pacific) in the Cathedral's nave, the all-male Compline Choir leads this formal choral service that is a Seattle tradition.

John Dowland — Selected works
Marin Marais — Selected works
Johann Sebastian Bach — Selected works
Erik Satie — Selected works

Hildegard von Bingen — Selected works
Michael Hersch — Selected works

Marin Marais — Selected works
François Couperin — Selected works
Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre — Selected works

Tomás Luis de Victoria — Missa Ave maris stella

In 1900, manuscripts were discovered in the caves of Dunhuang, northwest China. The manuscripts include religious, historical, mathematical…