Single Ticket sales begin July 1

  • Friday, September 18, 2026 at 7pm at Brattleboro Music Center, Brattleboro VT (tickets at bmcvt.org)

  • Saturday, September 19, 2026 at 7pm at Friends Meeting House, Cambridge

  • Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 3:30pm at Follen Church, Lexington

Music manuscripts from the Dresden Court rediscovered in a cabinet after 100 years of oblivion with rising star, tenor Richard Pittsinger. Works by Händel, Vivaldi, Lully, Campra, Locatelli, Telemann & Johann Pisendel. Plus a world premiere by Rebecca Scout Nelson.

With Richard Pittsinger, tenor; Rebecca Scout Nelson, composer/violin, Susanna Ogata, Nelli Jabotinsky, violins; Emily Dahl Irons, violin/viola; Jennifer Morsches, Timothy Merton, cellos; John McKean, harpsichord


Program:

Sinfonia funebra în F minor - Pietro Locatelli

Lamento: Largo; Alla breve ma Moderato

Non sempre folgora (from La costanza trionfante, 1716) - Antonio Vivaldi

Overture-Suite Les Nations in B-flat major, TWV 55:B5 - Georg Philipp Telemann

Menuet I & II

Cantata Il dolce pur amor l’affanno - Georg Friderich Händel

Il Sospetto | Concerto RV 199 in C minor - Vivaldi

Andante

*World premiere of new work - Rebecca Scout Nelson

from L’Europe Galante - André Campra

Troisième entrée L’Espagne, scène première | Dom Pedro Air “Sommeil, qui chaque nuit jouissez de ma belle” 

intermission

Persée Acte III sc. i - Jean-Baptiste Lully

Récit accomp. « J’ai perdu la beauté qui me rendit si vaine »

Air « Je porte l’épouvante et la mort en tous lieux » 

Imitation des charactères de la Danse - J.G. Pisendel

Loure, Rigaudon, Canarie, Bourée, Musette, Polonoise, Presto

from L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55 - G.F. Händel

Air “Let Hymen oft appear”

Sinfonia La verità in cimento, RV 739 - Vivaldi

Allegro, Andante, Allegro e forte

La tiranna avverso folgora sorte (from Arsilda regina di Ponto, 1716) - Vivaldi

Overture-Suite Les Nations in B-flat major, TWV 55:B5 - G.Ph. Telemann

Les Turcs, Les Moscovites


Ticket Prices:

Tickets purchased ahead:
(online, or with check by contacting sarah@sarasamusic.org or tel. 978-766-9408)

Adult: $26
Senior: $21
Student/Under 35: $10
Under 18: free

Tickets purchased in person:
(at the door by cash, credit card, or check)


Adult: $30
Senior: $25
Student/Under 35: $10
Under 18: free

Tickets to Brattleboro concerts at the Brattleboro Music Center are available for $20 in advance at their website www.bmcvt.org, or $25 at the door.


Venues:

Brattleboro Music Center: 72 Blanche Moyse Way, Brattleboro VT 05301
Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge MA 02138
Follen Church: 755 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington MA 02420

Tickets for Sarasa Music concerts in Brattleboro VT are available at the Brattleboro Music Center’s website, https://bmcvt.org.