An ideal season opener: festive trumpets, horns, and timpani gave Mozart’s sacred masterpiece its “Coronation” title.

Grand madrigals for voices and instruments by Monteverdi, Rovetta, and Priuli from the genre’s final flourishing

A Holy-Week allegory from the Imperial Court of Vienna, 1661

Introducing our new fortepiano (after Stein, 1783) in an intimate program of sonatas and variations

Welcoming our new fortepiano with musical greetings from Mozart’s Vienna

German cantors of the 17th century tell the Nativity

Commemorating All Souls’ Day with the Requiem the Venetian master wrote for himself

Schubert’s rarely performed masterworks for vocal ensemble and fortepiano

Polychoral music for voices, cornettos, and sackbuts by Schütz and contemporaries

Highlights of Italian keyboard music and Gregorian Chant

Claudio Monteverdi’s sixth book of madrigals for five voices

Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de Domenica and Organ Solo Mass

Kapsberger’s Shepherds of Bethlehem and an anonymous Christmas story from Dresden (1686)

Virtuosic music for violins by female composers of the early seventeenth century

Celebrating Anton Bruckner’s 200th birthday and the old masters that inspired him

Giovanni Pradella gives us a fascinating glimpse into how his company makes 17th-century organs from scratch employing contemporary techniques.

We celebrate the arrival of our new organ from Italy with a Monteverdian feast of music composed for San Marco in Venice.

A Monteverdian feast of music composed for San Marco in Venice.

After our success with Pergolesi’s Stabat mater we present Bach’s arrangement of the Neapolitan masterpiece as a German cantata.

Next to the impressive, life-size portrait of the Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain (1584–1611) at the Rienzi we perform music by composers of the Madrid court chapel including Rogier, Romero, and de Victoria.

The most intimate musical setting of the Nativity in Schütz’s “new recitative style, hitherto never attempted in Germany” (Schütz, 1664).

A spectacular choral masterwork by the 13-year-old prodigy that combines youthful freshness with the depth of a mature master.

With a “duel” performance on fortepiano and modern piano we celebrate the release of artistic director Mario Aschauer’s latest publication, a new edition of Beethoven’s Bagatelles, published by German music publisher Bärenreiter.

Countertenor Michael Skarke and Mario Aschauer perform selections from Giulio Caccini’s Le nuove musiche

Opposites attract! In his eighth book of madrigals the father of opera, Claudio Monteverdi, digs deep into the relationship of Mars and Venus, love and war.

Opposites attract! In his eighth book of madrigals the father of opera, Claudio Monteverdi, digs deep into the relationship of Mars and Venus, love and war.

After Pergolesi’s premature death at 26 years old, his Stabat mater spread like wildfire all over Europe and inspired countless arrangements and adaptations, even by J. S. Bach.

Music by Leopold Koželuh, Josef Antonín Štěpán, and Joseph Haydn

Josefien Stoppelenburg, soprano

Manami Mizumoto, Baroque violin

Mario Aschauer, fortepiano

Josefien Stoppelenburg (soprano) and Mario Aschauer (harpsichord) present virtuosic fireworks by Giovanni Bononcini, Josef Antonin Stepan, and George Frederic Handel