In honor of Halloween, the Sebastians explore the darker side of the Baroque. From Bach’s dramatic D minor Toccata and Fugue and Tartini’s legendary Devil’s Trill Sonata to musical portraits, storms, ghosts, and follies, this program uncovers the strange and theatrical imagination of the eighteenth century—a world where virtuosity, mystery, and storytelling meet.

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This season, Gut Instinct takes on the large-scale project "To Beethoven Rather Than To Seem," marking 200 years since Beethoven's death and 250 since the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Over the course of five concerts, Nicholas DiEugenio and pianist Mimi Solomon will present all ten Beethoven Sonatas on period instruments along with five commissioned works written expressly for them. This concert, Part II, includes Allen Anderson's Linen along with Beethoven's op. 30 nos. 1 and 2.

Following our acclaimed one-voice-per-part performance of Bach’s Mass in B minor, the Sebastians return to the music at the heart of Bach’s career: the church cantata. Featuring two of his most beloved masterpieces—Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (BWV 140) and Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (BWV 80)—this program offers a rare chance to hear Bach’s sacred music with the transparency, intimacy, and expressive power of four individual voices, creating a sound world remarkably close to what Bach himself likely heard in Leipzig.