CONCERT, Ensemble Castor with Sherezade Panthaki, 5:00pm:

Inspiring Genius – Precious Friendships: Music of Keiser, Handel, Bach, and Telemann
Stunning soprano Sherezade Panthaki joins forces with the dynamic violin virtuoso Rodolfo Richter and the outstanding Austrian chamber orchestra Ensemble Castor. They offer a program brimming with expressive theatricality featuring arias and instrumental music written for the stage from Handel’s Almira and Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno to Keiser’s Croesus and Theatralische Musik and Telemann’s Orpheus and Miriways. As a special treat, the ensemble will also present Handel’s early Sonata a 5 and Bach’s moving Concerto for Two Violins in D minor.

CONCERT, The Boston Camerata, 8:00pm:

A Gallery of Kings: Uses and Abuses of Power, ca. 1300
Celebrating their 70th-anniversary season, The Boston Camerata remains one of the world’s most celebrated Early Music ensembles. Artistic Director Anne Azéma leads a production first performed to honor the 800th anniversary of the Reims Cathedral. Songs and stories of powerful Kings, both good and bad, abound in the Middle Ages. While the crowd sings "May he reign forever,' the monarch’s power is limited: by his fallible judgement, his formidable adversaries, his love of power, and his own precarious mortality. These ancient songs of kingship and its snares in Latin, German, Galician, Old English, and Old French resonate strongly down the centuries, into our own, turbulent time.

CONCERT, Pacific Musicworks, 10:30pm:

Murder, Mayhem, Melancholy, and Madness: Music of Dowland, William Lawes, Purcell, and others
GRAMMY winner Stephen Stubbs brings Pacific MusicWorks to Boston for their BEMF début in a musical journey into the atmosphere and aftermath of the English Civil War. The years leading up to the start of the war in 1642 were full of riotous discord, reflected in the popular "Broadside Ballads.' At the same moment, William Lawes, the greatest English musical genius between Dowland and Purcell, was producing vocal and instrumental music of unparalleled beauty. Lawes would lose his life in battle, but his musical legacy achieved the perfect balance of emotion, words, and music. Sensational soprano Danielle Reutter-Harrah joins the ensemble for a fascinating program that sheds insight into this turbulent period.

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