Wednesdays at 8:00 pm
Highlights from one of the country’s leading baroque ensembles
Chicago’s Music of the Baroque continues to celebrate 50 years, and WFMT is happy to join in, with delayed broadcasts of this virtual season’s performances. Led by music director Jane Glover and principal guest conductor Nicholas Kraemer, the ensemble will perform works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, and others, recorded in several local performance venues.
There are no upcoming broadcasts at the moment.
Music of the Baroque: A Celebration of 50 Years
September 7, 2021, 8:00 pm
Special: Join host Maggie Clennon Reberg as she celebrates the 50th anniversary of Chicago’s treasured early music ensemble Music of the Baroque.
Music of the Baroque: A Celebration of 50 Years
June 28, 2021, 8:00 pm
Special: Join host Maggie Clennon Reberg as she celebrates the 50th anniversary of Chicago’s treasured early music ensemble Music of the Baroque.
Musica Sacra: Bach & Purcell
June 16, 2021
Music director Jane Glover closes out the Music of the Baroque season with this program of music for voice by Bach and music for strings by Purcell.
Plus Fours! Handel, Telemann, Locatelli, Vivaldi
May 19, 2021
Exploring the ingenuity of four Baroque composers: Handel, Telemann, Locatelli, and Vivaldi. Music of the Baroque principal guest conductor Nicholas Kraemer leads the program.
Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos
May 5, 2021
Music of the Baroque principal guest conductor Nicholas Kraemer led this performance of three of Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos last month.
Barnatan Plays Mozart
April 7, 2021, 8:00 pm
Piano virtuoso Inon Barnatan joins music director Jane Glover and the Music of the Baroque Orchestra to perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 14. Mozart’s 29th Symphony and two works by Handel round out the performance, which was recorded live on March 29.
Double Trouble: Bach & Vivaldi
March 10, 2021
Kathleen Brauer and Kevin Case share the stage as co-directors and soloists in this mixed-rep concert of baroque highlights.
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
February 3, 2021
Music of the Baroque concertmaster Gina DiBello serves as director and soloist, Christopher Kenney narrates, for this performance of Vivaldi’s seminal Four Seasons.
Telemann’s ‘The Day of Judgment’
October 14, 2020
From 2017: Music director Jane Glover conducts Telemann’s resounding oratorio with vocal soloists Krisztina Szabó, soprano; Thomas Cooley, tenor; Roderick Williams, baritone; and Ying Fang, soprano.
War and Peace
October 7, 2020
From 2015: Music director Jane Glover leads a choral program of music by Haydn and Handel.
Pulpit and Playhouse
September 30, 2020
From 2019: Music of the Baroque principal guest conductor Nicholas Kraemer leads a program of music written for the chapel or for the theater.
The Grand Tour
September 16, 2020
From 2019: WFMT legend Carl Grapentine joins Music of the Baroque and guest conductor Harry Bicket for “a lively musical reenactment of the grand European tour of young nobles and aristocrats, from London and Versailles to Venice and Munich.”
Mendelssohn ‘Elijah’
September 9, 2020
From 2017: Jane Glover conducts the Music of the Baroque and an elite cast of vocal soloists in this performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah.
Imogen Cooper Plays Mozart
September 2, 2020
From 2017, acclaimed English pianist Imogen Cooper joins music director Jane Glover and the Music of the Baroque for this program of works by Mozart and Haydn.
Monteverdi’s ‘Vespers’
August 26, 2020
From 2016, music director Jane Glover conducts this "towering masterpiece of the early Baroque."
Handel and the Royals
August 19, 2020
From 2010, Music of the Baroque music director Jane Glover conducts a program of regal choral works by eminent Baroque master George Frideric Handel.