With a contract quietly renewed, MOB to offer a familiar mix of masterworks in 2026-27
Music of the Baroque released details of its 2026-27 season on Sunday.
The ensemble’s 56th season will open September 27-28 with an all-Mozart program. Conducted by Dame Jane Glover—now in her 24th season as music director—the program spotlights Symphonies Nos. 40 and 41 and the Piano Concerto No. 27 with MOB’s perennial keyboard soloist Imogen Cooper, in what is billed as the retiring pianist’s final U.S. appearance.
Glover will conduct performances of two major Bach works this season. On November 22-23, she will lead Bach’s epic Mass in B minor. In the most diverting item next season, Glover conducts a reconstructed performance of Bach’s lost St. Mark Passion March 21-22 in a dramatized collaboration with Bill Barclay’s Concert Theatre Works.
Glover’s contract expires at the end of the current season and has been quietly renewed for three more years through 2029.
Following his debut last season, Marc Minkowski returns to direct a program April 11-12 with Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Charpentier’s Te Deum and Mozart’s Oboe Concerto with principal Anne Bach as soloist.
British conductor David Bates will make his MOB debut January 24-25, in a suite-heavy program of English composers featuring music of Handel, Purcell, Locke, Blow, Bryce, and Avison.
Nicholas Kraemer leads a concertante program October 18- 19 with MOB principals performing violin and flute concertos by Vivaldi and Telemann, respectively. Also on tap is Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 1, CPE Bach’s Symphony in D major and Haydn’s Symphony No. 80.
Kraemer, MOB’s principal guest conductor will also direct a choral program to close the season May 16-17, which includes Bach’s cantata “Christ lag in Todesbanden,” Byrd’s Mass for Four Voices and Monteverdi’s Gloria a 7.
Chorus director Andrew Megill will lead the Holiday Brass and Choral program December 17-20.
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