As the Music from Land’s End concert series enters its fifth season of bringing world-class classical music to the South Coast, artistic director Ariadne Daskalakis said the series feels great “appreciation” from its audiences. 

Classical music is a very “specialized” form of art, Daskalakis said, adding that it’s “gratifying” that audiences have opened their hearts to it during Music from Land’s End.

This year, lovers of the art form will get to enjoy two separate programs from the concert series: a performance of the 19th-century composer Franz Schubert’s “Octet for Winds and Strings” the weekend of Saturday, July 27, and a program of music from composers such as George Frederic Handel, Henry Purcell and Sebastian Gottschick the weekend of Saturday, August 10. 

Schubert’s Octet will be performed in Marion at St. Gabriel’s Church, 124 Front Street, at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 27. It will be performed again the following day in Wareham at the Church of the Good Shepherd, 74 High Street, at 5 p.m.

Daskalakis said the Octet was chosen as an “ideal vehicle” for the collaboration between Music from Land’s End and the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra provides administrative support to the Music at Land’s End concert series, and five of the eight musicians scheduled to perform the Octet hail from its ranks. 

Horn player and Marion native Orlando Pandolfi will substitute for Clark Matthews for this program, due to the latter’s illness. “At short notice it’s not easy to find a replacement horn player for such a demanding piece,” said Daskalakis. “We are very fortunate that Orlando Pandolfi is able to join us.”

The Octet also highlights “the magic of Schubert,” she said. “It’s timeless and it’s endless, but it’s so much in the moment.” 

The second program will take place at St. Gabriel’s Church at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 10, and at the Church of the Good Shepherd at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 11. 

It includes music from Johann Christoph Bach — uncle to the more famous Johann Sebastian Bach — George Frederic Handel, Henry Purcell, Franz Tunder and contemporary composer Sebastian Gottschick. 

For this program, Music from Land’s End is welcoming back a group of musicians who performed in last year’s concert series, after there was a short-notice change in last year’s roster due to a family emergency. 

The program will have “wonderful Baroque specialists on every instrument,” Daskalakis said. The Baroque era is the period of Classical music to which composers such as the two Bachs belong. 

The players are back “to complete some unfinished business,” said Daskalakis. The audience will get to experience “the joy of this ensemble that loves making music together,” she added. 

For more information about the music, the musicians and the concert series, visit https://mlewareham.org/home. Entrance to the concerts is by donation, with open seating.