3 pm, Sunday, November 9, 2025.

The Chapel of St. John the Divine, Champaign

Free Admission

“Pathos and Passion: French Baroque Chamber Music on Period Instruments.”

This concert, played by Urbana’s newest period instrument ensemble and directed by Illinois Professor Emerita Charlotte Mattax Moersch, celebrates chamber music of the French Baroque. From the haunting beauty of the Baroque flute and oboe in Couperin’s French suites, to the exuberant violins in Leclair’s Italian sonatas, this concert explores the rivalry between French and Italian musical styles in eighteenth-century France, and gives us a glimpse into French society in the time before the French revolution.

New CD release on Centaur, which presents for the first time, a recording of Bach’s solo violin sonatas on a lautenwerk. Streaming at https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9726934–bach-and-the-lautenwerk. Release date: February 7, 2025.

The Vernissage Project, debuts on YouTube on Sunday, September 6, 2020. From a beautiful concert salon in the Beaux-Arts Memorial Hall at the University of Illinois, I offer impromptu videos of solo harpsichord works of Bach, Froberger, Couperin, Rameau, Duphly, and others. These videos were recorded over a few days during the pandemic shutdown. The link to the Playlist will be posted on her YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKjKJKSv3tTypbPFwm0jh6g/playlists