This con­cert marks the open­ing of the Sigal Music Muse­um’s new exhi­bi­tion, A Favor­able Wind, a cel­e­bra­tion of wood­winds from the col­lec­tions of Eldred Spell, Sid­ney For­rest, and Mar­lowe Sigal. Kristin Olson (oboe), Thomas Car­roll (clar­inet), Yoni Kahn (horn), David Wells (bas­soon), and Fran­cis Yun (piano) per­form works by W.A. Mozart and Lud­wig van Beethoven on peri­od instruments.

Mozart Requiem
W.A. Mozart’s Solemn Ves­pers for A Con­fes­sor and Requiem, plus Peteris Vasks’s Dona nobis pacem.

Fear & Hope
Two can­tatas by J.S. Bach fea­tur­ing oboe, bas­soon, trum­pet, vio­lin, and vio­la: Selin ist der Mann (BWV 57) and Erfeut euch, ihr Herzen (BWV 66)

A Mid­sum­mer Night’s Dream
Felix Mendelssohn’s A Mid­sum­mer Night’s Dream Over­ture, Igor Stravin­sky’s Pul­cinel­la Suite, and Joseph Hayd­n’s Har­moniemesse.

Reflec­tions – At the Carmel Mis­sion
J.S. Bach, William Byrd, Loren­zo Alle­gri, and con­tem­po­rary works inspired by them.

Mozart’s “Jupiter” Sym­pho­ny
W.A. Mozart’s Sym­pho­ny No. 41 (“Jupiter”), Jessie Mont­gomery’s Star­burst, and Robert Schu­man­n’s Con­cer­to for Cello

Han­del’s Mes­si­ah in Grace Cathe­dral
Fea­tur­ing a stel­lar cast of vocal soloists, Amer­i­can Bach’s cel­e­brat­ed hol­i­day tra­di­tion of per­form­ing Handel’s Mes­si­ah in San Francisco’s his­toric Grace Cathe­dral peren­ni­al­ly pro­vides a trea­sured Decem­ber hol­i­day event to capac­i­ty audiences.

A Baroque Christ­mas
In this spe­cial per­for­mance, you’ll hear the Christ­mas por­tion (Part I) of Handel’s Mes­si­ah along with music of the sea­son by Arcan­ge­lo Corel­li and Marc-Antoine Charpentier.