Name: Baroque Celebration - Sacramento
Start: 2025-12-07T16:00:00-08:00
Location: Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Sacramento

Upcoming December Concerts – A Baroque Celebration
Join us for a dazzling program of Baroque works performed by exceptional Sacramento-area musicians. This concert features masterworks for flute, violin, and harpsichord, highlighting the elegance, virtuosity, and expressive depth of the Baroque era.
Program Highlights:
– J.S. Bach: Sonata in E-flat Major for Flute & Harpsichord
– Jean-Marie Leclair: Sonata “Le Tombeau” for Violin & Harpsichord
– Pietro Locatelli / Eugène Ysaÿe: Sonata in F minor for Violin & Harpsichord
– Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Suite No. 1 for Harpsichord
This program continues our 2025–26 season theme, In Defiance: Music of Exile, Resistance, and the Eternal Voice, illuminating how Baroque composers expressed resilience, individuality, and artistic conviction in eras marked by upheaval and constraint.
Bach, Leclair, Locatelli, Ysaÿe, and Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre each wrote music that asserted a distinct and uncompromising artistic voice. Their works often emerged from personal, political, or cultural struggles—whether navigating restrictive courts, challenging artistic norms, or carving out space in male-dominated musical spheres.
In this concert, their sonatas and suites reveal how music becomes a form of defiance: resisting silence, honoring personal truth, and giving voice to what endures. Through lyrical invention, technical brilliance, and bold emotional expression, these pieces stand as timeless examples of the human spirit’s determination to create, to persist, and to be heard.
Join us as we explore how the Baroque era’s most compelling composers shaped an eternal voice—one that resonates with our season’s call for resilience and artistic courage.
Tickets:
https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=289560
We look forward to sharing this beautiful music with you.