Baroque Connections - Friends and Rivals

Cambridge Society for Early Music presents New England Baroque, an ensemble of prestigious local players in a Baroque program with Handel, Telemann & more.

Friends and Rivals brings to life a circle of 17th-century European composers living in or strongly influenced by the booming baroque musical city of Venice. This program discovers their influences and relationships through their music, especially highlighting the fond long-distance friendship between George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann, and the competitive rivalry between Handel and Nicola Porpora.

With Renée Hemsing, Susanna Ogata, violins; Guy Fishman, cello; Ian Watson, harpsichord.

Friday, March 27 at 7:30pm: University Lutheran Church, Cambridge
Saturday, March 28 at 4pm: Village Church in Weston
Sunday, March 29 at 4pm: St. John's Episcopal Church, Beverly Farms