The season kicks off with Brandenburg 5 & Co., featuring Bach’s extravagant fifth Brandenburg Concerto with Tempesta’s resident harpsichord virtuoso, Adam Pearl. We’ve programmed this iconic concerto alongside music by Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Telemann and Couperin.

In 1737 Germany’s favorite composer fulfilled a lifelong dream of traveling to Paris, where he played music and exchanged ideas with the French musicians who invited him. Hear music by Telemann for the occasion, and by his hosts Blavet, Forqueray, Guignon and Guillemain.

Tenor Aaron Sheehan joins the Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players for a soirée of French art song and instrumental music from the time of Louis XIV, with music by Charpentier, Lambert, Couperin and Lully, including scenes from Actéon, Orphée descendant and Le Marriage forcé.

An orchestral program dedicated to Lully and his legacy: Apollon enjoué by Lully’s student Kusser, Stravinsky’s Apollon musagète, a neo-baroque homage to Lully, and Lully’s own music for Le Bourgeois gentilhomme.

This program is supported by The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage.

The season concludes with Elements, orchestral depictions of nature in its glory and fury, with music from Marais’s opera Alcyon, Telemann’s Hamburger Ebb und Flut, and Les Éléments, Rebel’s “tone-poem” depicting the creation.

This program is supported by The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage.

Tempesta co-director Richard Stone performs eighteenth-century lute music by J.S. Bach and S.L. Weiss, and seventeenth-century theorbo music by Robert de Visée and Alessandro Piccinini.

Flutist Gwyn Roberts, violist Karina Schmitz and harpsichordist Adam Pearl perform a joint recital of solos and trios by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach to mark the composer’s 300th birthday.

Principal cellist Lisa Terry shifts gears to perform music for the viola da gamba. Richard Stone accompanies on theorbo.