Bach Specialists Serve Up a Baroque Feast Nov 3 in West Hartford

This Friday evening, CONCORA’s Friends of Bach presents the ClavierFest, a lively concert of keyboard and vocal music by J.S. Bach and his contemporaries.

The concert will take place on Friday, November 3, at 7:30 PM, at Saint Mark the Evangelist Church, 467 Quaker Lane South, West Hartford, Connecticut.

Keyboardists Edward Clark, Christa Rakich, and Stephen Gamboa will be joined by Andrea LeBlanc (transverse flute), Emlyn Ngai (Baroque violin), Alice Robbins (cello), and baritone Jermaine Woodard, Jr., to perform music by Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries.

Highlights of the program include an aria from Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion, performed by CONCORA vocalist Jermaine Woodard, Jr., and the fifth Brandenburg Concerto, performed by the instrumental ensemble. Other featured works include the “King Arthur” suite by Henry Purcell, a flute sonata by George Frederic Handel, and other works by J.S. Bach, his son Johann Christoph Bach, and Friedrich Wilhelm Rust.

The keyboard music will be performed on reproductions of Baroque-period keyboard instruments including harpsichords, organ, lautenwerk (a rarely-heard lute-harpsichord with a unique sound) and clavichord (a small keyboard instrument with a very soft sound). The instruments are hand-crafted by expert makers, with beautiful carvings and painted decorations that enhance the musical experience.

EVENT DETALS

ClavierFest Baroque Concert

Friday, November 3, 2017, 7:30 PM

Saint Mark the Evangelist Church

467 Quaker Lane South, West Hartford, CT

Tickets: $10-$30 are available at www.concora.org, by phone at 860-293-0567, by email at contact@concora.org, or at the door.