Soon, the Washington heat and humidity will mean that we take a hiatus from classical music. Your Classical Music Agenda will even take a couple weeks off next month when there is just not that much to report. However, for the time being, we have some things to tell you about. Mainly, this is the final week of the Washington Early Music Festival, and there are usually two concerts a day just with that. I will recommend some of the interesting ones.

EARLY MUSIC:
>> Last year, I heard the stupendous German recorder virtuoso Matthias Maute with the REBEL Ensemble at the Library of Congress. Maute is back this summer, in two of the festival’s concerts. On Monday (June 19, 8 p.m.) he will play an all-Vivaldi program with Modern Musick and the St. Mark’s Chancel Choir at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church (3rd and A Sts. SE), on Capitol Hill. The following night (June 20, 8 p.m.), he will play a solo recital (Bach’s flute partita, Marais’s La Follia, Vivaldi’s Spring concerto) on recorder and traverso at the same location. Tickets for either concert: $20 (students, $15).

>> There are noonday concerts in the festival, too. On Wednesday (June 21, 12 noon) the Ensemble Gaudior will perform trio sonatas by Vivaldi and Corelli at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. On Thursday (June 22, 12 noon) a group called Tresorino will perform 17th- and 18th-century Italian solo and duet cantatas. The soprano, Jennifer Ellis, has a gorgeous voice. This is also at St. Mark’s. Tickets for the noonday concerts are only $10 (students, $5).