Klangforum Wien 

Tuesday, February 7, 2023 at 8:00 pm 

St. Mark's Episcopal Church
301 A Street SE, Washington, DC 20003

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Klangforum Wien, one of Europe’s great contemporary music ensembles, opens the Library’s 2023 concert series with a fresh burst of recent and established new music. Beginning with a work by Beat Furrer, one of the founders of Klangforum Wien, the group traces the horizon and then peeks beyond. The concert is anchored by the monumental Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus by Australian composer Liza Lim, a recent commission by Klangforum that shows that the past and its hopes are still with us in the midst of ecological disaster.

There will be no pre-concert talk for this event.

Quatuor Van Kuijk 

Wednesday, February 8, 2022 at 8:00 pm (In-person)

Thomas Jefferson Building - Great Hall
10 1st Street SE, Washington, DC 20540

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"Style, energy, and a sense of risk. These four young Frenchman made the music smile" (The Guardian). The Paris-based Quatuor Van Kuijk comes to the Library to present an impressive program that includes a U.S. premiere by the French composer Benjamin Attahir. Praised by Gramophone for their “Editor’s Choice” Mendelssohn recording–“…a Mendelssohn recital of rare flair and insight”–the quartet is celebrating its tenth anniversary on a high note. So join us for an evening of vital original music, stylish arrangements, and musical excellence all around.

There will be no pre-concert talk for this event.

Bach Collegium Japan

Saturday, February 11, 2022 at 8:00 pm (In-person)

St. Mark's Episcopal Church
301 A Street SE, Washington, DC 20003

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Masaaki Suzuki leads an ensemble of 11 stellar musicians from the illustrious Bach Collegium Japan, joined by British baritone Roderick Williams, a distinguished figure on opera and concert stages worldwide. At the forefront of the world’s early music ensembles, the Collegium is admired for its superb artistry and “unmatched excellence” (Gramophone) in the music of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries. Suzuki is both harpsichordist and conductor in this thoughtfully chosen program of Bach, Telemann and a slightly younger compatriot, the stile galant composer Johann Gottlieb Janitsch. Williams is featured in two solo cantatas, including the transcendent “Ich habe genug.”

Washington Men's Camerata

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (online only)
Streaming information will be available closer to the event date.

Watch Frank Albinder and the Washington Men’s Camerata take us through a survey of music by Barber, Beach, Fine, Foote, Weber, Wagner and more! This program of music for men’s chorus by American and German composers is drawn mostly from music that the Library holds in manuscript. From the zany McCord’s Menagerie of Irving Fine to the beautiful and little-known So Sweet is She by Patty Stair, this repertoire has a lot to offer. BONUS: You can join James Wintle of the Music Division in a webinar for a special behind-the-scenes look at this music at 1pm ET on February 21. Register for “Music for Men’s Chorus at the Library of Congress” here, all are welcome!