Friday December 6, 2024, 7:30 PM
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center • Alice Tully Hall
BAROQUE FESTIVAL: BACH CONCERTOS
J. S. Bach, perhaps the most revered of all composers, crafted unparalleled examples in every genre he undertook, and his concerto-writing skills unequivocally demonstrate that fact. The internationally acclaimed pianist Shai Wosner is featured on piano and harpsichord throughout the program, and renowned violinists (and sisters) Ani Kavafian and Ida Kavafian join forces for Bach's double violin concerto. German oboist Juri Vallentin, selected as a current CMS Bowers Program artist, performs Bach's lesser-known oboe concerto. 
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Bach Italian Concerto in F major for Keyboard, BWV 971 (1735)
Bach Concerto in A minor for Violin, Strings, and Continuo, BWV 1041 (1717–1723)
Bach Concerto in C minor for Oboe, Violin, Strings, and Continuo, BWV 1060R (1736, reconstructed from Concerto for Two Harpsichords, BWV 1060)
Bach Concerto in F minor for Keyboard, Strings, and Continuo, BWV 1056 (1738)
Bach Concerto in F major for Oboe, Strings, and Continuo, BWV 1053R (before 1738, reconstructed from Harpsichord Concerto, BWV 1053)
Bach Concerto in D minor for Two Violins, Strings, and Continuo, BWV 1043 (c. 1718–20)

Shai Wosner, PIANO/HARPSICHORD • Bella Hristova, Ani Kavafian, Ida Kavafian, Cho-Liang Lin, Julian Rhee†, Danbi Um, VIOLIN • Paul Neubauer, James Thompson, VIOLA • Timothy Eddy, CELLO • Anthony Manzo, DOUBLE BASS • Juri Vallentin†, OBOE

Sunday December 8, 2024, 5 PM
Tuesday December 10, 2024 7:30 PM
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center • Alice Tully Hall
BAROQUE FESTIVAL: BAROQUE ORGAN
CMS presents a rare opportunity to hear Alice Tully Hall’s lush and powerful 4,200-pipe organ on the instrument's 50th Anniversary; made in 1974 near Zurich by Orgelbau Kuhn, it was installed in 1975 as a gift from Miss Alice Tully herself. On this program, it serves as the centerpiece in music by eight Baroque masters -- all works that are new to CMS (except the Telemann Trio, which was performed once on this organ, in 1977).  Organist Paolo Bordignon, harpsichordist of the New York Philharmonic and organist and choirmaster of St. Bartholomew’s Church, Park Avenue, performs organ solos (including a French holiday carol) and is joined by eight extraordinary artists to perform transcriptions by Bach himself and more. 
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A. Scarlatti Three Arias for Trumpet, Oboe, and Organ (c. 1706)
Walther Organ Concerto in B minor (after Vivaldi Concerto RV275) (c. 1713)
Biber “The Annunciation” from Rosary Sonatas for Violin and Organ (c. 1676)
Bach “Sinfonia” from Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal for Organ, Two Oboes, Two Violins, Viola, and Continuo, BWV 146 (c. 1726)
Bach “Sinfonia” from Ich habe meine Zuversicht for Organ, Two Oboes, Two Violins, Viola, and Continuo, BWV 188  (1728)*
Daquin “Noël, grand jeu et duo” from Livre de Noëls for Organ (1757)
Telemann Trio Sonata in G minor for Oboe, Violin, and Continuo, TWV 42:g5 (1739–40)
Handel Concerto in A major for Organ, HWV 307, Op. 7, No. 2 (1743)
Torelli: Concerto in D major for Trumpet, Strings and Continuo, "Estienne Roger 188" (c. 1715)

Paolo Bordignon, ORGAN • Benjamin Beilman, Alexander Sitkovetsky, VIOLIN • Matthew Lipman, VIOLA • Keith Robinson, CELLO • Edgar Meyer, DOUBLE BASS • James Austin Smith, Juri Vallentin^†, OBOE • David Washburn, TRUMPET

Friday December 13, 2024, 7:30 PM
Sunday December 15, 2024, 5 PM
Tuesday Decemebr 17, 2024, 7:30 PM
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center • Alice Tully Hall
BAROQUE FESTIVAL: THE BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS

The Chamber Music Society's hugely popular annual holiday presentation of the complete Brandenburg Concertos continues -- 31 years and going strong, performed by CMS's intergenerational, international roster of stellar artists, including Jonathan Swensen, a member of the Bowers Program and recent first-prize winner of 2024 Naumburg International Cello Competition.
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Bach The Complete Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051 (1720)

Kenneth Weiss, HARPSICHORD • Chad Hoopes, James Thompson, VIOLIN • Aaron Boyd, VIOLIN/PICCOLO VIOLIN • Daniel Phillips, VIOLIN/VIOLA • Paul Neubauer, Milena Pájaro-van de Stadt, VIOLA • Dmitri Atapine, Inbal Segev, Jonathan Swensen†, CELLO • Blake Hinson, DOUBLE BASS • Sooyun Kim, Tara Helen O’Connor, FLUTE • Randall Ellis, James Austin Smith, Stephen Taylor, OBOE • Marc Goldberg, BASSOON • Julia Pilant, Stewart Rose, HORN • David Washburn, TRUMPET