JS Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068
JS Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, BWV 1049
JS Bach: Cantata BWV 29 “Wir Danken Dir”
Get your New Year with off to a great start with the Celebratory Inaugural Concert of the Seattle Bach Festival with all the bells and whistles: a full baroque orchestra with trumpets, timpani and winds. Bach’s Cantata 29 was written for the 1731 “Ratswechsel” in Leipzig, a lavish ceremony celebrating the inauguration of the new Leipzig Town Council and a fitting and joyful start for our Seattle Bach Festival.
We are honored to welcome Dr. Michael Maul, the Director of the Bach Archiv Leipzig and the Leipzig Bach Festival as our Guest of Honor for the opening weekend of the Seattle Bach Festival.
Vocal Soloists:
Danielle Reutter-Harrah, soprano
Aryeh Nussbaum-Cohen, alto
Jacob Perry, tenor
Jacob Herbert, baritone
Choir: The Evergreen Ensemble
The Seattle Bach Festival Orchestra
Tekla Cunningham, concertmaster
Christine Wilkinson Beckman, Cynthia Black, Eleanor Legault, Chloe Meyers, Brandon Vance, Byron Rakitzis, baroque violins
Stef Creswell and Lindsey Strand Polyak, baroque viola
William Skeen and Adaiha Macadam-Somer, baroque cello
Ross Gilliland, baroque bass
John Lenti, theorbo
Henry Lebedinsky, organ and harpsichord
Michael Kleinschmidt, organ (organ intro, Seattle)
Wyatt Smith (organ intro, Tacoma)
Debra Nagy and Curtis Foster, baroque oboe
Vicki Boeckman and Bryan Boehnke, recorders
Kris Kwapis, Jens Jacobsen and Gordon Ullman, baroque trumpet
Mark Goodenberger, timpani