Musica Pacifica performs baroque concert Feb. 22

Musica Pacifica, one of the nation’s leading performers of baroque music, returns to Sonoma with several friends at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22, to perform at Vintage House, 264 First St. E.

The Sonoma Classical Music Society is hosting the concert.

The program features two of Johann Sebastian Bach’s great Brandenburg Concertos, the Brandenburg Concerto #4 in G major, BWV 1049, and the Brandenburg Concerto #5 in D major, BWV 1050. Musica Pacifica will also perform Johann Gottlieb Graun’s Concerto for recorder, violin, and strings; Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto for strings in G minor, RV 156 and his Concerto for strings in D minor, RV 129 (Madrigalesco), and George Phillipp Telemann’s Concerto for flute and recorder in E minor, 52:e1.

Since its founding in 1990, Musica Pacifica has become widely recognized as one of America’s premier baroque ensembles, lauded for both the dazzling virtuosity and warm expressiveness of its performances. At home in the San Francisco Bay Area, the artists perform with Philharmonia Baroque and the American Bach Soloists, and appear with many other prominent early music ensembles nationally and abroad.

Tickets are $35 for adults, $30 for Sonoma Classical Music Society members, and $10 for students and can be purchased from Readers’ Books, Pharmaca, and Vintage House, about three weeks prior to the performance, at the Society’s website, sonomaclassical.org and at the door.