2018 Highlights
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Bach's Brandenburg Concertos
December 2018
Mondavi Center, Jackson Hall
Davis, CA
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Los Angeles, CA
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
New York, NY
Harris Theater
Chicago, IL
"The joyful spirituality and intellectual richness of J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos have made them secular holiday favorites for generations.” —THE NEW YORKER
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents Bach's Brandenburg Concertos on tour and in three New York performances.
New York Philharmonic
November 21, 23, 24, 2018
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
New York, NY
Music of Handel & Rameau, conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm.
Handel: Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 1
Handel: Water Music
Rameau: Selections from Dardanus
https://nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/1819/handels-water-music
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
November 2, 3, 4, 2018
Cathedral of St. Paul
St. Paul, MN
Ordway Concert Hall
St. Paul, MN
J.S. Bach: St. John Passion
Jonathan Cohen, conductor
Nicolas Mulroy, tenor
Matthew Brook, bass
Joélle Harvey, soprano
Tim Mead, countertenor
Nick Pritchard, tenor
William Berger, baritone
The Singers — Minnesota Choral Artists, chorus
The Florida Orchestra
October 26, 27, 28, 2018
Straz Center
Tampa, FL
Mahaffey Theater
St. Petersburg, FL
Ruth Eckerd Hall
Clearwater, FL
Evening at Bach’s Coffeehouse
Jeannette Sorrell, conductor
Telemann: Don Quixote Suite
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Telemann: Grillen-Symphonie
Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 1
Vivaldi: La Folia (Madness)
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
October 6, 2018 | 4:30pm
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
Portland, OR
10 AM EUCHARIST / Trinity Choir
Henry Purcell: Voluntary in G
Purcell: O Lord our Governor
Gerre Hancock: Psalm 8
Buxtehude: Fuga in B-flat, BuxWV 176
4:30 PM ORGAN RECITAL
on the Manuel Rosales Organ, op. 11. III/54
J.S. Bach: Trio Sonata No. 5 in C Major, BWV 529
Felix Mendelssohn: Sonata No. 4 in B-flat Major
5 PM EVENSONG / Cathedral Choir of Girls, Boys and Adults
Herbert Sumsion: Responses
Hancock: Psalm 8
Peter Aston: Service in F
Gerald Near: The Best of Rooms
C.H.H. Parry: I was glad
Evensong Postlude:
Louis Vierne: Carillon de Westminster
Bruce Neswick, Canon for Cathedral Music
David Boechk, Organ Scholar
Paolo Bordignon, guest conductor and recitalist
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
September 13, 2018 | 6pm
September 14 & 15, 2018 | 8pm
Ordway Concert Hall
St. Paul, MN
Thomas Zehetmair Conducts Beethoven and Haydn
Ludwig van Beethoven: Romance No. 1 for Violin
Eunice Kim, violin
Jean-Féry Rebel: The Elements
Claude Vivier: Zipangu
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 95 in C Minor
https://content.thespco.org/events/thomas-zehetmair-conducts-beethoven-and-haydn/
Manuel de Falla:
El Retablo de Maese Pedro &
El Amor Brujo
August 25, 2018
Doctorow Center for the Arts
Hunter, NY
August 26, 2018 | 7pm
Angel Orensanz Center
New York, NY
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival:
Orchestral Bach
August 18, 2018 | 6pm
Lensic Performing Arts Center
Santa Fe, NM
J.S Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C Major, BWV 1066
Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op. 11
J.S Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival:
Bach & Mendelssohn
August 14, 2018 | noon
Lensic Performing Arts Center
Santa Fe, NM
J.S Bach: Sonata in G Minor for Oboe & Harpsichord, BWV 1030
Dutilleux: Les citations
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival:
Bach & Vivaldi
August 11, 2018 | 5pm
Lensic Performing Arts Center
Santa Fe, NM
J.S. Bach: Concerto in C Minor for Violin & Oboe, BWV 1060
Handel: Concerto Grosso in D Major, Op. 6, No. 5
Vivaldi: Concerto in F Major for Three Violins
Vivaldi: Concerto in B Minor for Four Violins
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival:
Harpsichord Recital
August 4, 2018 | 5pm
St. Francis Auditorium,
New Mexico Museum of Art,
Santa Fe, NM
Solo harpsichord recital of baroque and modernist repertoire by J.S. Bach, Vincent Persichetti, Domenico Scarlatti, Bela Bartok, and Jean-Philippe Rameau. Debut recital of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival's Rutkowski & Robinette harpsichord, gift of harpsichordist Paul Wolfe.
Mozart: Missa Brevis in C Major, K.220. "Sparrow" Mass
For the Solemnity of Saints Peter & Paul
June 29, 2018 | 7:00pm
Church of the Resurrection, New York
Choir and Orchestra of Church of the Resurrection
David Enlow, Director of Music
Paolo Bordignon, organ
New York Philharmonic Ensembles
May 27, 2018
Merkin Concert Hall, New York
Chamber music performed by members of the New York Philharmonic.
Vivaldi: Trio Sonata Op. 1, No. 3
Penderecki: Duo concertante for Violin and Double Bass
Reinecke: Trio for Oboe, Horn, and Piano
Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1
New York Philharmonic
May 24, 25, 26, 2018
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
Luciano Berio: Sinfonia
Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
Symon Bychkov, conductor
Roomful of Teeth, vocal ensemble
Berio's Sinfonia is dedicated to Leonard Bernstein and was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for its 125th anniversary and premiered in 1968 by the orchestra and The Swingle Singers, with Berio conducting.
It is an experimental post-serial work with 8 amplified vocalists commenting about musical (and other) topics as the piece twists and turns through a dissonant, seemingly neurotic journey of musical and verbal quotations.The voices sing, speak, whisper, or shout texts from Claude Lévi-Strauss's Le cru et le cuit (a study of Amerindian mythologies), Samuel Beckett's novel The Unnamable, instructions from the scores of Gustav Mahler, and other writings. The work includes musical quotations from Bach, Berlioz, Debussy, Ravel, Webern, Mahler, Strauss, Hindemith, Boulez, Stockhausen, et al. The instrumentation includes electric organ and amplified harpsichord.
https://nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/1718/bychkov-conducts-alpine-symphony-and-roomful-of-teeth
Preview story in the New York Times, including 360-degree rehearsal video
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra:
Bach Complete Brandenburg Concerti
May 17, 2018
New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark
May 18, 2018
Richardson Auditorium, Princeton
May 19, 2018
Count Basie Theater, Red Bank
May 20, 2018
State Theater New Jersey, New Brunswick
Members of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
Eric Wyrick, leader and violin soloist
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-6
https://www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/bachs-complete-brandenburgs
The New York Landmarks Conservancy: Sacred Sites Open House
May 5, 6, 2018
St. Frances Cabrini Shrine, New York
Weekend of instrumental and vocal music concerts, including performances on the Giovanni Tamburini organ.
Music of Bach, Handel, Mozart, Jongen, Guilmant
The Shrine of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini overlooks the tranquil banks of the Hudson River and was designed by architects De Sina & Pellegrino. Frances Xavier Cabrini, the first American citizen to be made a saint, was the founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, sent to New York in 1880 to assist Italian immigrants. She established schools, hospitals, and orphanages around the country. She was canonized in 1946.
Earth Day Concert:
For the beauty of the earth
April, 22, 2018
Marble Collegiate Church, New York
The Marble Choir
Kenneth Dake, director
Music inspired by the mysteries of nature – gardens, forests, rivers, willow trees, birds, oceans, stars and the night sky – including works of Fanny Hensel, William Billings, G.F. Handel, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Daniel Elder, Morten Lauridsen and Ērik Ešenvalds, Howard Hanson, Dominick Argento, Darius Milhaud.
Bach: St. Matthew Passion
March 25, 2018
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York
Johann Sebastian Bach
Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244
St. Andrew Chorale & Orchestra
Andrew Henderson, conductor
Marc Molomot, tenor - Evangelist
Kevin Deas, bass - Jesus
Eliza Bagg, Helen Karloski, Tommy Wazelle, Rod Gomez
Gala Re-opening of the
André Mertens Galleries
March 22, 2018
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Department of Musical Instruments
On the newly restored Thomas Appleton organ, 1830
With Kevin Cobb, trumpet
Music of Giuseppe Torelli, Giovanni Battista Martini, Henry Purcell, Jean-Joseph Mouret, William Walond, and J.S. Bach (marking the composer's 333rd birthday)
Trans-Siberian Art Festival Tour
March 16, 2018
Concert Hall of the Krasnoyarsk Philharmonic Society
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia
March 17, 2018
Arnold Kats State Concert Hall
Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia
March 19, 2018
Tchaikovsky Concert Hall
Moscow, Russia
SEJONG String Orchestra
with Vadim Repin and Clara-Jumi Kang
Repertoire including:
Bach: Concerto for two violins
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Vivaldi: Concerto for two violins
Augusta Read Thomas. Murmurs on the Mist of Memory
Ravel: Tzigane
Tchaikovsky: Lensky’s Aria from Eugene Onegin
Piazzolla: The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Igudesman: New work for two violins and chamber orchestra (World premiere)
Further Information:
International Sejong Soloists website
Trans-Siberian Art Festival website
Antonio Caldara:
Mass in G
February 4, 2018 | 11:00am
Church of the Resurrection, New York
Choir and Orchestra of Church of the Resurrection
David Enlow, Director of Music
Paolo Bordignon, harpsichord and organ
Orpheus CHamber Orchestra:
FIre and Light
January 25, 2018
Opeilka, AL
January 27, 2018
Huntsville, AL
January 29, 2018
Baton Rouge, LA
January 31, 2018
Manhattan, KS
February 2, 2018
Williams Center for the Arts, Easton, PA
February 3, 2018 | 7pm
Carnegie Hall, New York
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Tine Thing Helseth, Trumpet
ROSSINI Overture to Il Signor Bruschino
HAYDN Notturno No. 1 in C Major, Hob. II:25
ALBINONI Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 9
BACH Concerto in D Minor, BWV 974 (after Vivaldi; arr. Jarle Glesåen Storløkken)
MOZART Symphony No. 40
https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2018/02/03/orpheus-chamber-orchestra-0700pm
Franz Schubert:
Mass in G Major
January 14, 2018 | 11am
Church of the Resurrection, New York
Choir and Orchestra of Church of the Resurrection
David Enlow, Director of Music
Paolo Bordignon, organ
New York Philharmonic:
Young People's Concerts
January 6, 2018 | 2:00pm
David Geffen Hall, New York
Inspirations and Tributes: "Classical Echoes"
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro Overture
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Overture
Mozart: selection from Piano Concerto No. 17
Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme (selections)
Haydn: Symphony No. 98 (selections)
Jeffrey Kahane, conductor & piano
Janey Choi, host
Sterling Elliott, cello
https://nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/1718/young-peoples-concert-musical-tributes