Gail Archer performs on the St. Michael’s Church organ in Marblehead Jan. 15. Stephanie Berger photograph.
Brief listings of chamber music events this weekend. Feature and reviews returning next week.
Seven Times Salt premieres a new program on its YouTube channel Jan. 12—solstice selections from the Renaissance, postponed from an earlier date. The program that is—not the solstice, or the Renaissance.
Sarasa Ensemble presents Marian settings of Handel, Corelli, Leonarda, and others in Music of the Madonna Jan. 14 at Longy’s Pickman Hall, and Jan. 15 at Follen Community Church in Lexington.
Nightingale Vocal Ensemble sings an ambitious program—Hildegard von Bingen, Kolesnichenko, Luis de Victoria, Reena Esmail and a half dozen world premieres—Jan. 14 in Somerville, a chance to visit the eccentrically inviting Museum of Modern Renaissance in Powder House Square..
In Marion (Jan. 14) and South Dartmouth (Jan. 15) the South Coast Chamber Music Series continues its season with a Frenchist program of Saint-Saens, du Puy, Schoenfield and Milhaud, featuring bassoonist Michael Mechanic.
The Boston Chamber Music Society begins 2023 with music of Hummel and Jalbert (featuring clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois), along with the Brahms piano quartet, Jan. 15 at Jordan Hall.
Hard-working organist Gail Archer, founder of Musforum, the advocacy organization for women organists, performs at St. Michael’s Church in Marblehead Jan. 15.
Speaking of organs, Carson Cooman plays Mohr and Houben in the Tuesday noon King’s Chapel series, Jan. 17.