CMS: Bach and Sons—Passing the Torch
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- Alice Tully Hall
J.S. Bach and three of his sons share a chamber program tracing the passage from Baroque counterpoint to the Classical era.
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- Format
- In person
- Location
- Alice Tully Hall, 1941 Broadway, New York, NY 10023, Manhattan, New York City
About this event
The Bach family’s different musical voices meet in this Chamber Music Society concert. Johann Sebastian Bach’s A Musical Offering and canons on the Goldberg Variations sit alongside works by Johann Christian, Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
Harpsichordist Kenneth Weiss joins an ensemble of strings and winds at Alice Tully Hall, including C.P.E. Bach’s Fantasia for violin and harpsichord and J.C. Bach’s Quintet for flute, oboe, strings and continuo.
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All-Bach family program: J.S., J.C., C.P.E. and W.F. Bach