Musica Pacifica's next program on Wed. 8 at Trinity Chapel in Berkeley, is "Sweet Accents: In Praise of Harmony," with tenor Aaron Sheehan joining the quartet. The program is cantatas and instrumental chamber music by Handel, Rameau, Telemann, and their contemporaries.
Sheehan will sing in the Rameau cantata Orphée, Handel’s "Look Down, Harmonious Saint" (a song for St. Cecilia’s Day), Michel Lambert’s "Vos mépris chaque jour," and arias from Bach’s Cantatas Nos. 97 and 62.
Additionally, the quartet will play Telemann’s Sonata No. 1 in A (Paris Quartets) and Concerto a quattro; Rameau’s Troisième Concert in A Major (from Pièces de Clavecin en Concert) and Handel’s Ouverture from Sonata in G Major, Op. 5, No.4. The same program will be performed for the San Diego Early Music Society on Jan. 10 and with the Fullerton Friends of Music on Jan. 12.