Classical Week in Washington (10/2)

Classical Week in Washington is a weekly feature that appears on Sundays, in conjunction with my Classical Music Agenda at DCist. If there are concerts that you would like to see included on our schedule, send your suggestions by e-mail (ionarts at gmail dot com). Plan your fall concert schedule with our Highlights of the Concert Season, Fall 2005, and Classical Month in Washington (October), or your fall opera listening with our Opera Preview, 2005–2006.

Monday, October 3, 7:30 pm
Beijing Traditional Music Group [FREE]
Freer Gallery of Art, Meyer Auditorium

Tuesday, October 4, 12:10 pm
Washington Bach Consort, Noontime Cantata [FREE]
Es ist nichts Gesundes an meinem Leibe (BWV 25)
Church of the Epiphany (13th and G Streets NW)

Tuesday, October 4, 8 pm, to Saturday, October 8, 8 pm
National Ballet of China
Kennedy Center, Eisenhower Theater

Thursday, October 6, 7 pm; Friday, October 7, 1:30 pm; Saturday, October 8, 8 pm
National Symphony Orchestra, with violinist Nikolaj Znaider (Bruch's first violin concerto and Corigliano's first symphony)
Kennedy Center, Concert Hall

Friday, October 7, 3:30 pm
Open Rehearsal: National Ballet of China
Kennedy Center, Eisenhower Theater

Friday, October 7, 7:30 pm; Saturday, October 8, 7:30 pm; Sunday, October 9, 2 pm
Festival of China Trilogy of Modern Dance
Kennedy Center, Terrace Theater

Friday, October 7, 8 pm
Moscow Chamber Orchestra
The Barns at Wolf Trap (Fairfax, Va.)

Friday, October 7, 8 pm; Saturday, October 8, 5 pm and 8 pm; Sunday, October 9, 2 pm
Folger Consort (music by Josquin and Isaac)
Folger Library, Folger Elizabethan Theatre

Friday, October 7, 8 pm
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Romantic Journey on the Orient Express (with CityDance Ensemble, music by Mozart, Wagner and Strauss)
Music Center at Strathmore

Saturday, October 8, 8 pm (preconcert panel at 5 pm)
Chamber Music of Toru Takemitsu (Masatoshi Mitsumoto, artistic director and conductor) [FREE]
Library of Congress, Coolidge Auditorium

Saturday, October 8, 8 pm
Fairfax Symphony Orchestra with Judith Ingolfsson, violin
George Mason University Center for the Arts (Fairfax, Va.)

Sunday, October 9, 5 pm
Adam Birnbaum, piano [FREE, with admission to museum]
Phillips Collection

Sunday, October 9, 6:30 pm
Beaux Arts Trio (music by Martinů, Beethoven, and Schubert) [FREE]
National Gallery of Art

Sunday, October 9, 8 pm
Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra
Kennedy Center, Concert Hall

——» Go to last week's schedule, for the week of September 25.