Midtown Concerts
The official Youtube Channel for the Midtown Concerts Series. Now in its twenty-seventh season, Midtown Concerts offers the opportunity to experience a wide variety of early music repertoire that is proudly presented free of charge in the heart of midtown Manhattan. We pride ourselves on featuring exemplary established and emerging early music ensembles from New York and beyond. Midtown Concerts is produced by Gotham Early Music Scene, Inc.
Hesperus — Les Très Riches Heures: A Rich Year of Medieval Improvisation
Hesperus • De tout flors by Guillaume de Machaut (1300–1377)
Passiones Animae • Prelude from Telemann's Paris Quartet No. 4 in B minor
Cléa Galhano & Peter Sykes ~ Adagio from Telemann's Sonata 1 in G minor
BALAM Dance Theatre — "La Folia" by Vivaldi with Baroque Dance
Caroline Nicolas & Jeffrey Grossman — Adagio & Allegro ~ Sonata in D Major by J.S. Bach
Koester & Figg — Dido’s Lament and Drooping Wings from Dido and Aeneas by H. Purcell (1659–1695)
Boreas Quartett Bremen – Allegro from Concerto in D minor (after A. Vivaldi) by J.S. Bach
The Baltimore Consort — The Mad, Merry Pranks of Robin Goodfellow (tune Dulcina, Anon.)
Presto from Sonata per il Violino e Cembalo in G Major, BWV 1021 by J.S. Bach
Eurasia Consort — Sogdian Dialogue
Richard Pittsinger, Rafa Prendergast & Friends — Sdegno campion audace by Virgilio Mazzocchi
Concordian Dawn – Selection from "Le Roman de Fauvel"
Edson Scheid, violin — Preludio from Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006 by J.S. Bach
New York Baroque Dance Company — Cotillion (Congo Minuet) by Francis Johnson (1792–1844)
The Lost Mode — Ava Maris Stella (Guillaume Dufay (ca. 1397–1474))
Intesa plays Armenian song "Chinar Es" by Komitas Vardapet (1869–1935)
Opera Essentia — The Queen’s Heart ~ Se teco vive il cor
Opera Essentia — The Queen’s Heart ~ A Distillation of Handel’s Radamisto
Magdalena — Óró Mhór a Mhóirín ~ Songs of Ireland and Scotland
Hesperus — O Italia! Celebrating the Codex Faenza
Abendmusik — War & Peace ~ Music in the Time of the Thirty Years' War
Schwarz / Shin Duo — Treasures of the High Baroque
Theotokos — The Passion Before Bach (audio-only)
Theotokos — The Passion Before Bach — The Arrest ~ John (Leonhard Lechner (1553–1606))
Les Bergers — Joyeux Noël
Bud Roach – Songs of Love, from Court to Country
NEMA a4 – Death and the Maiden
Schwarz / Shin Duo – Treasures of the High Baroque
Silentwoods Collective – Playing with Fire