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- Sunday, October 27, 2013 2:00pm
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- Sunday, May 4, 2014 2:00pm
The Broadway Presbyterian Church, 601 West 114th Street
New York, NY
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Brandenburg Concerto No. 6
Posted on June 21, 2012 | No CommentsThis final concerto of the famous set is darkly scored for two viola da braccio, two viole da gamba, cello, violone, and harpsichord. -
Premiere Suite de Symphonies
Posted on March 9, 2011 | No CommentsJean-Joseph Mouret (1682-1738) was a court composer active in France during the reigns of Louis XIV (the “Sun King”) and his son, Louis XV. Very few of his compositions have... -
Gott ist unser Zuversicht
Posted on February 7, 2010 | No CommentsBach in a more festive mode, now with a wedding cantata, BWV 197, written in 1737. This is the opening chorus in D major. It begins with a rousing introduction... -
O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht
Posted on February 7, 2010 | No CommentsA large number of Bach’s compositions are choral works, most of them centered on the liturgy and church services. They include over 200 sacred cantatas; secular cantatas; monumental works like... -
Entrance of the Queen of Sheba
Posted on October 25, 2009 | No CommentsThis short well-known work is actually an instrumental interlude contained in the oratorio Solomon, which Handel composed in 1749. The sinfonia contains vigorous running passages in the violins with contrasting... -
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
Posted on October 25, 2009 | No CommentsIn 1721 Bach dedicated a set of six concerti for diverse instruments to Markgraf Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg. At that time Bach was the resident Kapellmeister for Prince Leopold of... -
“Wedding” Cantata
Posted on February 3, 2008 | No CommentsThis is one of Bach’s best-known solo cantatas, and one of the relatively few non-religious cantatas composed by the master. It is scored for solo soprano, three solo instruments (oboe,... -
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Posted on October 29, 2006 | No CommentsThe great Johann Sebastian Bach early on made his mark as a composer and performer on the organ. The D minor Toccata and Fugue is one of his earliest organ... -
Concerto for Organ and Orchestra in Bb Major
Posted on May 15, 2005 | No CommentsHandel was a keyboard virtuoso as well as a great composer. He wrote 15 organ concerti between 1735 and 1751, and has been credited as being the first to compose... -
Adagio in G Minor for Organ and Strings
Posted on February 6, 2005 | No CommentsThis well-known piece was actually constructed from 2 different fragments of Albinoni’s work by the Italian composer Remo Giazotto. It is composed in “church-sonata” style, with organ melody and accompaniment... -
Concerto in D Major
Posted on May 1, 2004 | No CommentsMany of Bach’s cantatas and oratorios include instrumental sections, such as sinfonias or overtures, which are musical masterpieces in their own right. Bach freely interchanged his compositions as he saw... -
Orchestral Suite No. 2 in G Major
Posted on March 8, 2004 | No CommentsThe Bach family of central Germany was prolific, producing generations of musicians from the 16th through the 19th centuries. While its greatest exemplar was undoubtedly Johann Sebastian Bach, many other... -
Third Orchestral Suite
Posted on May 4, 2003 | No CommentsThis is one of Bach’s best-known works for large orchestral ensemble. It was probably composed in the 1720s originally as a suite for strings and oboes, to which trumpets and... -
Concerto No. 10 in B Minor
Posted on March 8, 2003 | No CommentsThe collection of 12 concertos known as “L’Estro Armonico” (Harmonic Inspiration) was first published in 1711 in Amsterdam. It includes some of Vivaldi’s most famous concerti, known to beginning violin... -
“Don Quixote” Suite
Posted on May 5, 2002 | No CommentsDuring his long and productive life (1681-1767), Telemann became one of the most celebrated of baroque composers. His output was vast, ranging from operas and cantatas to concertos and intimate... -
Concerto in C Minor
Posted on February 4, 2001 | No CommentsBach was a versatile composer. He reworked many of his instrumental concerti for harpsichord, and vice-versa (the two violin concerti, Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 and this concerto for oboe and... -
Overture No. 11 in D Major
Posted on October 29, 2000 | No CommentsThe life of William Boyce (1711-1779) spanned the flowering of the baroque era through early classicism. Boyce was active in official London music circles, becoming Composer to the Chapel Royal... -
Suite from the play “The Gordian Knot Unty’d”
Posted on June 11, 2000 | No CommentsWhen Charles II mounted the throne in 1660, one of his first acts was to lift the ban on theatrical performances, imposed by the Puritans during the Commonwealth years after... -
Concerto in C Minor for Violin and Oboe
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Cantata No. 78
Posted on February 6, 2000 | No CommentsBach composed this cantata in Leipzig in 1724 “for the 14th Sunday after Trinity.” The cantata is in seven parts. It opens with a majestic chorus based upon a chromatic...
