Baroque’s Greatest Hits
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Baroque’s Greatest Hits

Thursday, October 29, 2026 7:30 PM

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Subscriber presale for all regular ESO 26/27 single performances: Tuesday, July 21, 2026 • 10:00 AM

Public onsale for all regular ESO 26/27 single performances: Tuesday, July 28, 2026 • 10:00 AM

About The Concert

For one night only, take a journey through some of the Baroque period’s finest music. This musical era—known for tonal development and increasing technical complexity—created enduring masterpieces that are still celebrated today. 

Hear your favourites, including excerpts from Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks and Water Music, alongside Pachelbel’s Canon and Albinoni’s Adagio. Plus, it wouldn’t be the greatest hits without Bach’s mighty Toccata and Fugue in D minor, performed on the magnificent Davis Concert Organ. 

This concert will include an intermission.

Program to Include

CHARPENTIER
Te Deum: Prelude
ALBINONI
Adagio
MOURET
Suite de Symphonies: Entrée
VIVALDI
Concerto for Two Trumpets
MARCELLO
Oboe Concerto: Adagio
CLARKE
Trumpet Voluntary
PACHELBEL
Canon
HANDEL
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Water Music Suite: Allegro deciso
Music for the Royal Fireworks: Overture
JS BACH
Cello Suite in G major: Prelude
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Suite No. 2: Badinerie
Toccata and Fugue in D minor

Program subject to change.

Featured Artists

Shah Sadikov, Conductor
Robin Doyon, ESO Trumpet
Rafael Hoekman, ESO Cello
June Kim, ESO Oboe
Elizabeth Koch, ESO Flute
Frédéric Payant, ESO Trumpet
Jeremy Spurgeon, Organ

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