The 2021 Festival closes with Handel's scintillating Acis and Galatea, featuring vocal soloists, chorus, and orchestra on period instruments. Presented as a concert performance.

Composers like Beethoven rarely need any help to round out a concert program. This event at Blackfriars Playhouse features the acclaimed Septet for period winds and strings.

Mahler's nine symphonies are among the largest orchestral works. Yet, they become sublime studies in texture and nuance when arranged for more intimate chamber ensembles.

The Seeing Double program argues that "two can be even better than one." Works for doubled ensembles and soloists by D'Indy, Palestrina, Castello, and others.

A perennial audience favorite returns with orchestral works by Bach, as well as vocal and instrumental music by Handel, Caccini, Lambert and others.

The sonata is one of the most important forms of the Classical and Romantic eras, but composers often seek to transcend its conventions by injecting moments of imagination.

Classical music is hardly serious all the time. Indeed, the combination of heartfelt and humorous emotions is vital to music's expressive power. Works by Haydn, Ravel and others.

This one-hour concert features six works of vocal music from the Renaissance to 20th century. Music by Mahler and Marenzio, Tallis, Fauré and others.

The Festival's percussionists take center stage in this program as both performers and composers. Works by Cangelosi and Guinivan alongside Handel, Brahms, Gesualdo, and others.

Musical composition is steeped in the apprentice tradition, and this program celebrates master-student relationships from the past. Works by Buxtehude, Boulanger, Piazzolla, and others.

Relax Sunday morning in the stunning Blackfriars Playhouse for a mixed chamber program featuring Philidor, Dvořák, and the music of J. P. Jofre.

Time features mightily in music, but it's far more than just a question of keeping the beat. Explore deeper philosophical issues with works from Beethoven to Burtner.

The hills are alive with ... well, you know the rest. J. S. Bach, Rore and Pergolesi carry us between central Germany and Italy's northern foothills.

The first evening program celebrates music by composers who, at one time in their careers, crossed the Atlantic, from Strauss waltzes to Piazzolla's tangos.

The 2021 Festival opens with a free noon concert featuring English madrigals, an oboe sonata by Mozart, and chamber works by bandoneon composer and virtuoso J. P. Jofre.