When J. S. Bach took his position in Leipzig’s Thomaskirche in the early 1720s, he also made time for secular engagements. As director of the city’s Collegium Musicum, a band of players founded by Telemann, Bach wrote numerous works of orchestral and chamber music for their concerts held each week at Zimmermann’s Kaffeehaus (a Starbucks of days gone by…). This concert features just such pieces, including a Concerto for Four Violins by Telemann, Bach’s “Coffee” Cantata, selections from Bach’s Art of the Fugue, and numerous chamber pieces by the Bach circle of composers.
| Telemann |
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Concerto in C, for four violins without bass |
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Antti Tikkanen, Gesa Kordes, Martin Davids, Minna Pensola (Baroque violin)
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| J.S.Bach |
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Contrapunctus XIII, for harpsichord
from The Art of the Fugue |
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David Schrader (harpsichord)
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| Pisendel |
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Sonata for violin and basso continuo in E minor |
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Gesa Kordes (Baroque violin), Mark Shuldiner (harpsichord)
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| Fasch |
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Quartet in B-flat, for two oboes, bassoon and continuo |
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Aleksander Fester and Washington McClain (baroque oboe), Stephanie Corwin (Baroque bassoon), Mark Shuldiner (harpsichord), Tony Manzo (baroque bass)
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| C.P.E.Bach |
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Sonata in G Minor, for oboe and harpsichord |
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Washington McClain (Baroque oboe), David Schrader (harpsichord) |
| J.L.Krebs |
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Allegro in A Minor, from Concerto for two harpsichords |
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Mark Shuldiner, David Schrader (harpsichord) |
| J.S.Bach |
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Coffee Cantata, BWV 211 |
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Brenda Witmer (soprano), Derek Chester (tenor), David Newman (baritone), Mary Boodell (Baroque flute), Anna Gebert, Martin Davids (Baroque violin), Gesa Kordes (Baroque viola), Stephanie Corwin (Baroque bassoon), Tony Manzo (Baroque bass), David Schrader (harpsichord) |
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