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    Friday, April 26, 2024

    Essex Winter Series goes all-Bach

    Lisa Saffer

    The Essex Winter Series wraps its 2014 season with a program that's all Johann Sebastian Bach - with instrumental and vocal music, with secular and sacred pieces.

    The show takes place Sunday afternoon in Valley Regional High School in Deep River, and the series press release says it will be a celebration of Bach, "the most prominent musician of the Baroque period, and a composer revered by many as the greatest composer of all time."

    On the program will be six arias from cantatas, St. John Passion, and Easter Oratorio. The vocal soloists are Lisa Saffer, soprano; Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Ani Kavafian, violin; and Linda Skernick, harpsichord.

    As for the instrumental works, they will feature Sonata No. 1 in E-flat for Flute and Harpsichord, Trio Sonata in C minor from The Musical Offering, and Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. The musicians are Benjamin Hoffman, violin; Colin Brookes, viola; Jerrian van der Zanden, cello; and Samuel Suggs, double bass.

    - Kristina Dorsey

    Essex Winter Series, 3 p.m. Sunday, Valley Regional High School, Kelsey Hill Road, Deep River; $30, $12 students; (860) 272-4572, essexwinterseries.

     

    Ani Kavafian
    Linda Skernick

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