Music of the Baroque Encore

Wednesdays at 8:00 pm

Highlights from one of the country’s leading baroque ensembles

Join WFMT for these highlights from past Music of the Baroque seasons, selected by the Chicago-area ensemble. 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.

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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 Family Bach

September 23, 2020

From 2016: Celebrating a musical dynasty.

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.