2025 - 2026 CONCERT SEASON

Telemann’s Solo, Duo and Trio Sonatas

Saturday, October 18, 2025 at 7:30pm
Lindsey Chapel at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston, MA

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767), often overshadowed by his phenomenal contemporary Johann Sebastian Bach, was one of the most prolific composers in history and a leading composer of 18th-century Europe. He composed more than 3,000 works of diverse genres, including operas, sacred cantatas, passions, orchestral suites, concertos, sonatas, quartets, trios, duets, and unaccompanied music. Highly regarded by critics and colleagues, his works were cited as models by theorists such as Johann Mattheson and Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg. This concert is devoted exclusively to the chamber music of Telemann written for solo, duo, and trio.

Program:
Trio Sonata in A-minor, TWV 42: a4
Fantasia for Harpsichord in D-Major, TWV 33: 1
Cello Sonata in D-Major, TWV 41: D6
Trio Sonata in B-flat Major for recorder, harpsichord and continuo, TWV 42: B4
Fantasia for Violin, No.1 in B-flat Major, TWV 40: 14
Sonata for recorder and violin in B-flat Major, TWV 40: 111
Fantasia for recorder, No.7 in F-Major, TWV 40; 8
Trio Sonatas in d -minor, TWV 42: d10

Musicians: Héloïse Degrugillier, recorder, Sarah Darling, violin, Rebecca Shaw, cello, Akiko Sato, harpsichord

J.S. Bach: Sonatas for viola da
gamba and harpsichord

Saturday, March 21, 2026 at 7:30pm
Lindsey Chapel at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston, MA

Program:
Sonata in G-Major, BWV 1027
Sonata in D-Major, BWV 1028
Sonata in g-minor, BWV 1029

Musicians:
Emily Walhout, viola da gamba
Akiko Sato, harpsichord

Music of J.S. Bach, G.F. Handel
and Georg Muffat

Les Bostonades' 20th Anniversary
Celebration with special guests!

Saturday, June 6, 2026 at 3:30pm
Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury Street, Boston, MA

Join the celebration with Les Bostonades in full force as the ensemble marks its 20-year anniversary with the return of distinguished guests Christopher Palameta, oboe, and Zachary Wilder, tenor. The program includes solo and group concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel, selections from “Armonico Tributo” by Georg Muffat, and opera arias by Handel.

Program:
J.S. Bach: Concerto for oboe d'amore in A-Major, BWV 1055
J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G-Major, BWV 1048
G. Muffat: "Armonico Tributo" Sonata No.5 in G-Major
G.F. Handel: Concerto Grosso Op.6, No.5 in D-Major, HWV 323
Handel arias and scenes for tenor with Zachary Wilder 

Musicians:
Les Bostonades Celebration Orchestra
Zachary Wilder, tenor
Christopher Palameta, oboe

2024 - 2025 Concert Season

Les Bostonades with Reginald Mobley, Countertenor

Music of Purcell, Handel, & Sancho

Friday, November 1, 2024 at 7:30pm

Lindsey Chapel at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston, MA

Grammy-nominated, world-renowned countertenor Reginald Mobley will delight audiences with Baroque favorites by Purcell and Handel as well as vocal and instrumental music by Ignatius Sancho, a composer and polymath who was the first person of African descent to vote in a British Parliamentary election.

Emily Dahl Irons & Anna Griffis, violins
Rebecca Shaw, viola da gamba & cello
Akiko Sato, harpsichord

A Musical Feast

Chamber Music of J.S. Bach

Saturday, April 12 at 7:30pm

Lindsey Chapel at Emmanuel Church
15 Newbury Street, Boston, MA

Les Bostonades presents a lavish all-Bach chamber program featuring the violin, viola, viola ga gamba, and harpsichord. In contrast to the large-scale works we performed last season, this program features tasteful arrangements of his trio sonatas as well as select solo sonatas for violin or viola da gamba with obbligato harpsichord. Join us in sampling these musical delicacies!

Program:
Trio Sonata No.5 in C Major, BWV 529
Sonata for violin & harpsichord No.4 in c minor, BWV 1017
Sonata for viola da gamba & harpsichord in g minor, BWV 1029
Trio Sonata No.6 in G Major, BWV 530

Musicians: Sarah Darling, violin, Jason Fisher, viola, Emily Walhout, viola da gamba, Akiko Sato, harpsichord

2023 - 2024 Concert Season

A Portrait of LOVE

Friday, February 9, 2024 at 8:00 PM

Teresa Wakim, soprano
Emily Walhout, viola da gamba
Akiko Sato, harpsichord

Tickets $30 general / $25 senior / $20 student

Gordon Chapel at Old South Church
645 Boylston St. Boston, MA

What better way to celebrate love than through music? Get into the Valentine's Day spirit with our concert of love-themed cantatas by Clérambault and Montéclair as well as exquisite airs de cour by Charpentier, Lambert, and D’Ambruys. These beautiful works are interspersed with scintillating instrumental pieces by D’Anglebert and Marais. Les Bostonades welcomes the return of soprano extraordinaire Teresa Wakim, joining Emily Walhout on the viola da gamba and Akiko Sato on the harpsichord.

Program
Cantata: L’Amour piqué par une abeille (livre 1) - Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676–1749) 
Suite en la mineur (IVè livre) - Marin Marais (1656–1728)
Dans nos bois (Transcriptions de Lully) Jean-Henri D'Anglebert (1629–1691)
Le doux silence de nos bois - Honoré D’Ambruys (c. 1660–c. 1700)
Prélude en g minor (deuxième suite) - D'Anglebert
Ombre de mon Amant - Michel Lambert (1610–1696)
Sans frayeur dans ce bois, H.467 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704)
La Rêveuse - Marais
Cantata: Le triomphe de la constance (livre 1) - Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667–1737)

Double & Triple Harpsichord Concertos by JS BACH

Friday, May 24, 2024 at 7:30 PM

Gordon Chapel at Old South Church
645 Boylston St. Boston, MA

Tickets on sale March 22.

Hank Knox, harpsichord
Leon Schelhase, harpsichord
Akiko Sato, harpsichord
Sarah Darling & Anna Griffis, violin
Jason Fisher, viola
Rebecca Shaw, cello
Nathaniel Chase, bass

To conclude Les Bostonades's 18th season, stellar harpsichordists Hank Knox and Leon Schelhase will join our artistic director Akiko Sato and a superb string ensemble in this all-Bach concert. The program will include Triple Harpsichord Concertos with strings in D minor (BWV 1063) and C major (BWV 1064), Double Harpsichord Concerto in C major (BWV 1061a), and Brandenburg Concerto no. 6 (BWV 1051) arranged for two harpsichords by Kenneth Gilbert.

2022 - 2023 Concert Season

Leçons de Ténèbres
by François Couperin

Saturday, January 21 at 4pm

Zachary Wilder & Aaron Sheehan, tenors
Emily Walhout, viola da gamba
Akiko Sato, organ

Gordon Chapel at Old South Church
645 Boylston Street, Boston, MA

Regarded as the most famous ecclesiastical works by François Couperin (1668–1733), an eminent French Baroque musician during the rule of Louis XIV, the Leçons de ténèbres (“Tenebrae Readings”) are a surviving collection of three vocal pieces for one and two high voices and continuo for Maundy Thursday. (The other two collections of lessons for Good Friday and Holy Saturday are lost.) Published in 1714 and presumably written for the nuns of the Longchamp Abbey in the outskirts of Paris, the three lessons use the Latin text of the Book of Lamentations from the Old Testament, in which Jeremiah mourns the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians.

Concerti da Camera

Saturday, May 6 at 3:30pm
Come enjoy an exciting array of chamber concertos by the great Baroque masters Boismortier, Fasch, Couperin, Telemann and Vivaldi. Famed oboist Christopher Palameta, our returning guest from Paris, and all players will be featured as soloists!

Christopher Palameta, oboe (guest)
Héloïse Degrugillier, recorder & traverso
Sarah Darling, violin
Allen Hamrick, bassoon
Rebecca Shaw, cello
Akiko Sato, harpsichord

Gordon Chapel at Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
Masks optional

2021 - 2022 Concert Season

The French Graces

2020 - 2021 Concert Season

Marin Marais: Music for two viols and continuo

LIVESTREAM CONCERT from Futura Productions in Roslindale, presented by the Cambridge Society for Early Music.

July 18, 2021 8:00pm Eastern Time
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Join Les Bostonades for an evening of of dazzling French Baroque chamber music by legendary viol player and composer Marin Marais (1656-1728). Fans of the viola da gamba will not want to miss this extraordinary performance!

Marin Marais: Music for two viols and continuo
Emily Walhout, viola da gamba
Shirley Hunt, viola da gamba
Akiko Sato, harpsichord

2019 - 2020 Concert Season

Amours contrariées: Les Bostonades at The Frick Collection

Sunday, October 13, 2019 at 5:00pm

Music of Rameau, Clérambault, and Telemann
Zachary Wilder, tenor
Teddie Hwang, traverso
Sarah Darling, violin
Emily Walhout, viola da gamba
Avi Stein, harpsichord

PROGRAM:
Clérambault: “Pirame et Thisbé”
Rameau: Prelude in A Minor
Rameau: “L’Impatience”;
Telemann: Paris Quartet No. 6 in E Minor
Clérambault: “Orphée”

The Frick Collection | New York, NY

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