The Baroque Room in Lowertown St. Paul is launching a series of free lunch-hour concerts and lecture-recitals, beginning Feb. 16 and running occasional Saturdays through June.

Market Music 2013 is designed to coincide with the St. Paul Farmers’ Market, with concerts running an hour and lecture recitals, featuring the ensemble Flying Forms, 90 minutes—all starting at 11:30 a.m. All are free and open to the public.

Two highlights in the series are a “Who Taught Bach?” lecture Feb. 23 serving as a prelude to a Bach Society performance at 8 p.m. that night in the Baroque Room. On May 4, Jacques Ogg of The Lyra Baroque Orchestra and guest baroque violinist Luís Otávio Santos present a lecture recital on Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. That night, at 8 p.m. in Hamline University’s Sundin Hall, Santos performs The Four Seasons with The Lyra Baroque Orchestra.

Also in the Market Music series:

February

16 – Lecture Recital: A Baroque Tour: 150 Years of History

March

2 – Concert: from The Complete Rameau Harpischord Concerti

Flying Forms with Tulio Rondón, viola da gamba

16 – Lecture Recital: Creativity and Delight: The World of Baroque Improvisation

23 – Concert: Creativity and Delight

April

27 – Lecture Recital: Exploring Dance: Forms and Influence

May

11 – Concert: Drive the Cold Winter Away: Dance in Seventeenth-Century England

Glorious Revolution Baroque

18 – Lecture Recital: Performance Practice and Baroque Music Today

25 – Concert: from A European Tour

Flying Forms with Cléa Galhano, recorder and Jin Kim, baroque violin

June

1 – Lecture Recital: Unaccompanied: Music for One

8 – Concert: Music for One

Flying Forms with Tulio Rondón, baroque cello

15 – Lecture Recital: Rhetoric and Form: The Spoken Music of the Baroque

22 – Concert: from Cantar Alla Viola

Flying Forms with Nadine Balbeisi, soprano, and Fernando Marín, viola da gamba

For more information visit www.thebaroqueroom.com or call (651) 705-6772.