Posts Tagged ‘C.P.E. Bach’
Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard Offers a Festival of Fantasias at The Conrad
Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s intentionally unconventional program at The Conrad was devoted exclusively to the musical genre of the fantasia.
Read MoreSummerFest 2022 Explores the Bach Family and Their Wide Influences in Western Music
Beyond Bach, Sunday’s SummerFest 2022 program, offered a clever potpourri of works that inspired—or might have inspired—J. S. Bach, as well as a few works inspired by the Leipzig master himself.
Read MoreBach Collegium San Diego Premieres ‘El Mesías’–Handel’s Beloved Oratorio in Spanish
The Bach Collegium San Diego premiered ‘El Mesías’–its Spanish-language adaptation of G. F. Handel’s ‘Messiah’–in San Diego County and Baja California, Mexico, March 18 — 20, 2022.
Read MoreCamarada’s Jewel Box of 18th-Century Gems
Camarada’s sparkling performance on Tuesday, May 18, 2021, in the Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad in La Jolla did more than “Evoke the Baroque,” the program’s clever title.
Read MoreBach Collegium San Diego’s Splendid Baroque Motets and Canticles
The Friday, March 2, concert by the Bach Collegium San Diego at All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Hillcrest offered the best of both worlds: one of the familiar, cherished motets by J. S. Bach and rarely heard works by Heinrich Schütz and Domenico Scarlatti.
Read MoreVivaldi Upstaged by C.P.E. Bach in the Barrio
When the month of December rolls around, I am eager for almost any program that is NOT “Messiah,” “Nutcracker” or Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” So when the San Diego chamber music collective Camarada announced they were playing an all-Vivaldi program without a single movement from “The Four Seasons” I was eager to hear it . . .
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