Stile Antico

>> The best things to hear this week are concerts of older music, beginning with harpsichordist Trevor Pinnock’s Tribute to Wanda Landowska on Tuesday night (March 29, 8 p.m.) in the free concert series at the Library of Congress. He will perform part of this concert on a Pleyel instrument that once belonged to Landowska, one of the pioneers of the harpsichord revival. Reserved seats are all claimed, but if you show up early you can wait for an unused seat.

>> On Saturday (April 2, 8 p.m.) the up-and-coming and quite excellent English choral group Stile Antico will finally make its Washington debut, a concert sponsored by the Folger Consort at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation on Capitol Hill (212 E. Capitol St. NE). The program will be devoted to polyphonic settings of the Song of Songs, drawn partially from their 2009 CD. This is likely to be one of the highlights of the concert season.

>> The fine series of Lenten concerts continues at Washington National Cathedral with a performance of Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem this Friday (April 1, 7:30 p.m.). It combines the cathedral’s chamber choir Cathedra and the Christ Church Cathedral Choir, visiting from Oxford with their director, Stephen Darlington. Other pieces, more proper to Lent than the Requiem Mass, begin the program. If you have missed these concerts, three of them will be broadcast on WETA (90.9 FM) on the following three Sunday evenings (April 3, 10 and 17, 9 p.m.).

>> Hear some unusual pieces by Messiaen and Torke in a concert by the University of Maryland Wind Orchestra on Friday (April 1, 8 p.m.) at the Clarice Smith Center in College Park.

>> Pile up with more Messiaen in a free concert by the Inscape Chamber Orchestra on Sunday (April 3, 6:30 p.m.) at the National Gallery of Art.

>> Composer Elena Ruehr will be featured in a concert on Sunday (April 3, 5 p.m.) by the Washington Chorus at National Presbyterian Church.