February 8 at 3:00 PM
Sidney Harman Hall, Washington, DC

Washington Bach Consort
The Dresden Connection

The rich variety of Baroque chamber music includes works from J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Handel, Hasse, Telemann, Fasch, and Heinichen, all of whom wrote music for the court in Dresden.

For more information, call 202-429-2121.

February 12 at 7:30 PM
Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, Washington, DC

The Hilliard Ensemble

Founded in 1974, this British a cappella quartet is one of the world's foremost vocal groups, bringing their ensemble virtuosity to bear on great works of the Medieval, Renaissance, and contemporary periods. For their Kennedy Center debut, The Hilliard Ensemble performs a program of vocal music by two quintessential Renaissance composers: Orlando de Lassus's four-part Requiem Mass, interspersed with motets and antiphons by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

This program is performed without intermission and lasts approximately 65 minutes.

A RENAISSANCE PROGRAM
LASSUS - Gradual: Si ambulen
PALESTRINA - Ad Dominem cum tribularer
LASSUS - Offertory--Domine Iesu Christe
LASSUS - Sanctus
PALESTRINA - Miserere mei Deus
PALESTRINA - Heu mihi Domine
LASSUS - Introit--Requiem aeternam
LASSUS - Kyrie
PALESTRINA - Domine quando veneris
LASSUS - Agnus
LASSUS - Communion--Lux aeterna
PALESTRINA - Libera me Domine
Chant - In Paradisum

For more information, call (800) 444-1324.