GAYLORD — Earlier this month, La Grande Bande released its concert performance lineup for the 2022-23 season, the ensemble’s fourth season.

The 2022-23 season features 15 performances at venues throughout southcentral Minnesota, Rochester and the Twin Cities metro area.

“I can’t tell you how excited I am about our upcoming season,” said Michael Thomas Asmus, La Grande Bande music and artistic director. “It’s going to be our biggest and most varied season yet. I’m most excited to share our new ‘Holiday Series’ with everyone. Handel’s Messiah with antique instruments will be a showstopper.”

La Grande Bande has a varied set of regular season concerts in store, featuring four concerts with a music from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic eras. This season will include one of the most recent pieces La Grande Bande has performed to date: a string quartet written in 1891 by English composer Sir Charles Villiers Stanford.

The Sonatas from Bohemia and Poland program highlights music written by some of Eastern Europe’s most prominent composers. With works by Czech and Polish composers, this program showcases virtuosic sonatas, artfully crafted fugues and chamber works written in the era’s most popular and fantastic style, the stylus phantasticus. While several composers on this program gained fame while working for the Hapsburg court in Vienna, like Benda and Biber, none of them lost their Polish or Czech roots.

In a nod to Asmus’s Polish ancestry, the ensemble will explore and share some of what Polish, Czech, and Viennese ears were hearing in the aristocratic courts of Baroque Europe. This program features violinists Tsutomu “Will” Copeland and Theresa Elliott, viola da gambist Maryne Mossey and Asmus on harpsichord.

In November, La Grande Bande’s quartet of string players will perform selections by Austrian composer Josef Haydn, Italian-born and Spanish-employed Gaetano Brunetti and English composer Sir Charles Vilers Stanford. This program features violinists Natalie Kress and Mary Sorlie, violist Cheryl Zylla, and cellist Maryne Mossey.

During February 2023, Splendors of Baroque Italy concerts are scheduled. This entire program is an exploration of Italian baroque vocal music written by its first composers. This program features mezzo-soprano Alyssa Anderson, Mossey and Asmus.

In Supper and Songs concerts in May 2023, La Grande Bande’s “Dine Out” concert experience continues with a selection of light-hearted and comedic works.