BACH AT NOON

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November 17, 2021
ORPHEUS BRITTANICUS: MUSIC OF PURCELL & BLOW

BCSD's first Bach at Noon program of the season juxtaposes instrumental and vocal works of Henry Purcell with those of his older, lesser-known contemporary John Blow. Blow's masque Venus and Adonis paved the way for Purcell's Dido and Aeneas only a few years later, and both men held the post of organist at Westminster Abbey in the last decades of the 17th century. Together, Purcell and Blow represent a final flowering of a homegrown English baroque style prior to the arrival of Handel in 1710. 

Instrumental suite from Venus and Adonis John Blow

Chaconne in G Blow

Sweeter than Roses Henry Purcell

Suite from The Married Beau Purcell

All Souls' Episcopal Church
1475 Catalina Blvd, San Diego, CA 92107


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February 23, 2022

MOTET MILESTONES

Though separated by a generation, Johann Schelle (1648-1701) and Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) both held one of the central musical posts in Germany, Cantor of St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. Schelle is credited with ushering in the use of the German language (replacing Latin) in Lutheran liturgical music, an achievement that is the foundation for Bach's work several decades later. "Motet Milestones" offers a fascinating side-by-side look at representative works of these two masters. 

Motet: Jesu, meine freude BWV 227 J.S. Bach 

Motet: Komm, Jesu, komm Johann Schelle

All Souls' Episcopal Church
1475 Catalina Blvd, San Diego, CA 92107


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April 20, 2022

EUROPEAN UNION

From England to Russia, and Portugal to Poland, “European Union” celebrates the diversity of national and regional characters of the Baroque period, as exemplified in suites by cosmopolitan masters Georg Muffat (1653-1704) and Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767). 

Ouverture "Les Nations" TWV 55:B5 Georg Philipp Telemann

Suite in d minor "Nobilis Juventus" from Florilegium Secundum Georg Muffat

All Souls' Episcopal Church
1475 Catalina Blvd, San Diego, CA 92107


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June 1, 2022

SARA LEVY'S SALON: FROM BACH TO MENDELSSOHN

Sara Levy (1761-1854) is one of the least heralded and yet most consequential figures in European musical history, providing a crucial link that led Felix Mendelssohn to spearhead the Bach Revival with his 1829 production of the St Matthew Passion. This program features a brilliant, enigmatic Sinfonia in F major by Levy's teacher Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (the eldest son of J.S.) alongside a precocious, gracefully wrought String Symphony in d minor by her grandnephew, the 12-year-old Mendelssohn.

Sinfonia in F major ("Dissonant"), F. 67 W.F. Bach

String Symphony no. 7 in D minor Felix Mendelssohn

Trio Sonata in C major BWV 529 J.S. Bach

All Souls' Episcopal Church
1475 Catalina Blvd, San Diego, CA 92107