GivingBACH

Friday, January 23, 2026
8:00 p.m. (doors open 7:45)
Verbatim Books
3793 30th St, San Diego, CA, 92014

The fortunes of the clarinet took a dramatic turn for the better toward the end of the 18th century, when W.A. Mozart began writing a series of works featuring it as a solo instrument. Indeed, the Clarinet Quintet K. 581 is one of the absolute high points in Mozart’s entire catalog, heard here alongside five fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier of J.S. Bach, arranged for string quartet by Mozart himself. 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Five Four-Part Fugues after J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, K.405
Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K.581

Soloist: Joshua Rubin

Friday, February 20, 2026
Time TBD
Vi at La Jolla Village
8515 Costa Verde Blvd, San Diego, CA 92122

The career of Italian composer and cellist Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) unfolded primarily in Spain, where the more colorful and unique elements of the local musical culture (e.g., dance forms like the fandango and instruments like the guitar) provided a potent inspiration, and a new ingredient, to his suave and elegant lyricism.  

Luigi Boccherini
String Quartet in G Major, G.223 “La tiranna” 
Selections from Guitar Quintets No. 1 in d minor, G.445, and No. 4 in D Major, G. 448

Soloist: Richard Savino

Friday, April 17, 2026
4:30 p.m.
San Diego Public Library, San Ysidro Branch
4235 Beyer Blvd, San Diego, CA 92173 

BCSD returns to the practically bottomless well of forgotten music from the 17th and 18th centuries, with three veritable masterpieces that you are very unlikely to have heard previously (or to ever hear again!), including the North American premiere of J.-H. Fiocco's four-voice motet O beatissima virgo Maria.

Johann Sebastian Bach (ascribed)
Overture in g minor, BWV 1070

Nicolaus Bruhns
De profundis

Joseph-Hector Fiocco
O beatissima virgo Maria