CONCERTOS AND CANTATAS SATURDAY 7/16 | 7:30 P.M. SPIEKER CENTER
The festival begins on a celebratory note, connecting Joseph Haydn, the father of the Classical style, with the Baroque era’s greatest master, Johann Sebastian Bach. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, son of Johann Sebastian, composed his dashing A major Cello Concerto only three years after his father’s death, setting a new standard of instrumental brilliance. In Haydn’s dramatic cantata, the heroine Ariadne is abandoned during the night on the island of Naxos by her lover Theseus, whom she had saved from the Minotaur. Haydn’s ever popular C major Violin Concerto follows, and the evening closes with Johann Sebastian Bach’s secular cantata Be still, stop chattering (in essence, a short comic opera), which tells the humorous, cautionary tale of a young woman addicted to coffee.
BACH, C.P.E.
Cello Concerto in A major, W. 172 (1753)
HAYDN Arianna a Naxos, Cantata for Voice, String Quintet, and Harpsichord, Hob. XXVIb:2 (1789–90) (arr. Jaffe)
HAYDN Violin Concerto no. 1 in C major, Hob. VIIa:1 (ca. 1761–65)
BACH, J.S. Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht, BWV 211, Coffee Cantata (1732–35) Meigui Zhang, soprano; Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano; Nicholas Phan, tenor; Matthew Worth, baritone; Amir Hoshang Farsi, flute; Gilbert Kalish, Hyeyeon Park, Mika Sasaki, Wu Han, harpsichords; Aaron Boyd, Jennifer Frautschi, Kristin Lee, Arnaud Sussmann, James Thompson, violins; Aaron Boyd, Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, violas; Dmitri Atapine, David Finckel, Inbal Segev, cellos; Scott Pingel, bass
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