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Dear Guest!
On Wednesday, January 18th, at 7 p.m., I warmly invite you to my ITALIAN BACH salon, in which I will showcase a dazzling variety of Italian genres which Bach brought to an unprecedented level of dramatic flair, soulful expression, and brilliant virtuosity.
My program will open with Bach's gorgeous Aria Variata "alla Maniera Italiana" in A minor, BWV 989 (ca. 1710), which reveals Bach's seemingly infinite imagination when it comes to varying a plaintive, both sensual and spiritual-sounding Italianate theme. As an early precursor to a Classical Sonata, made famous by Domenico Scarlatti in his 500+ keyboard sonatas, Bach's festive five-part Sonata in D Major, BWV 963 (1704) happens to his only keyboard sonata as far as we know, which ends with a delightfully humorous fugal finale, entitled Thema all' imitatio Gallina Cuccu ("Theme in imitation of the Chicken and the Cuckoo"). The influence of the Italian Baroque concerto masters, including Antonio Vivaldi, Archangello Corelli, Alessandro & Benedetto Marcelo, and Giuseppe Torelli, can be witnessed in Bach's riveting Concerto in B minor after Giuseppe Torelli, BWV 979 (ca. 1713-14), with its unusual six-movement design, while the joint influence of Vivaldi and the Italian organ virtuoso, Girolamo Frescobaldi, can be heard in Bach's rapturous and concerto-like Toccata in G Major, BWV 911 (ca. 1717) - the last of his seven extravagant and virtuosic Toccatas for keyboard. The second half of my program opens with Bach's dark and dramatic Fantasia in C Minor, BWV 906 (ca. 1738) featuring bold chromatic daring and nimble Italian-type hand-crossings using large skips. It will be followed by Bach's seldom-heard, adventurous and quirky Capriccio in E Major, BWV 993 (ca. 1710) - a jolly Fugue in the style of Frescobaldi, filled with many wild twists and turns, including a modulation to a very remote key of D-flat minor (!), and his majestic organ-sounding Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV 904 (1725), the latter with two contrasting fugal subjects later superimposed for a truly sublime ending.
Don't miss this festive and colorful journey through the Italian Bach program!
See you there!
Best,
Dr. Yelena Grinberg
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