Sarasa Chamber Music Ensemble — Upcoming Concerts & Performances

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4 upcoming concerts and performances from Sarasa Chamber Music Ensemble, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All classical in Greater Boston →

Sat Nov 14 – Sun Nov 15 · 7pm/3:30pm

Nordic Circle

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Sat Nov 14 · 7pm, Friends Meeting House (Cambridge) / Sun Nov 15 · 3:30pm, Follen Church (Lexington)

Music tied to the Nordic countries from the early baroque to the present: Samuel Friedrich Capricornus's Amor tuus in nos (1655), a sonata by Samuel Adam Strungk, Grieg's Haugtussa songs and Solveig's Song, Erik Tulindberg's String Quartet No. 2, and songs by ABBA and Björk. Soprano Carley DeFranco and mezzo-soprano Krista River sing. The programme repeats at Follen Church in Lexington.

$26 advance / $30 door ($10 under-35 & students)

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Sat Jan 9 – Sun Jan 10 · 7pm/3:30pm

Le Caffe

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Sat Jan 9 · 7pm, Friends Meeting House (Cambridge) / Sun Jan 10 · 3:30pm, Follen Church (Lexington)

Sarasa's coffee-house programme is built around Nicolas Bernier's cantata Le Caffé for soprano, flute, strings and continuo, with an aria by the eighteenth-century soprano and composer Gertrud Elisabeth Mara, a trio sonata by Janitsch, a W.F. Bach duet for two flutes and Telemann's Concerto in E minor for recorder and flute. Mara Riley sings, with Ashley Solomon, flute, Christoph Wald, recorder, and John McKean, organ.

$26 advance / $30 door ($10 under-35 & students)

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Sat Mar 6 – Sun Mar 7 · 7pm/3:30pm

La Caccia ~ The Hunt

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Sat Mar 6 · 7pm, Cambridge Friends Meeting House / Sun Mar 7 · 3:30pm, Follen Church (Lexington)

Mozart's String Quartet in B-flat, K. 458, The Hunt, and his Horn Quintet in E-flat, K. 407, frame two watery songs in Robert Percival's arrangements for tenor, horn and string quartet: Schubert's Auf dem Strom and Moscheles's rediscovered Am Bach. Tenor Charles Blandy and natural-horn player Anneke Scott join violinists Jesse Irons and Anna Griffis, violist Jason Fisher and cellist Jennifer Morsches.

$26 advance / $30 door ($10 under-35 & students)

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Sat May 8 – Sun May 9 · 7pm/3:30pm

Breaking Free

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Sat May 8 · 7pm, Cambridge Friends Meeting House / Sun May 9 · 3:30pm, Follen Church (Lexington)

Sarasa's season closes with composers who broke free of discrimination's chains — de Monte, Beethoven, Casals, Kurt Weill, Mahler and Ethel Smyth — honoring Alma Rosé's music at Auschwitz, with soprano Ute Gfrerer. The 2nd Annual Barbara Kapp Celebration Concert.

$26 advance / $30 door ($10 under-35 & students)

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