Friday, May 1 4pm
An intimate Bach at Noon-style concert where director, Greg Funfgeld will introduce works performed including Cantata 182 and 45, and Bach duets sung by Agnes Zsigovics, soprano and Daniel Taylor, countertenor.
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Friday, May 1 4pm
Chamber Music in the Saal
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Moravian Museum, 63 W. Church St. Bethlehem
Intimate concert featuring Sherezade Panthaki, soprano; Mollie Glazer, viola da gamba, and Charlotte Mattax Moersch, harpsichord. The program explores Bach and the French influence and includes the secular cantata L’impatience by Jean-Philippe Rameau
Friday, May 1 8pm
Bach Cantatas & Violin Concerto in E Major
Packer Memorial Church, Lehigh University, Bethlehem
This concert features the full choir and orchestra performing Cantatas 172, 69, as well as a dialogue cantata for soprano and bass, BWV 152. Festival artist-in-residence, young virtuoso violinist, Caroline Goulding, is featured in Bach’s Violin Concerto in E Major.
Saturday, May 2 10:30 am
Bach Festival Orchestra & The Bach Chaconne Project
Baker Hall, Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University, Bethlehem
The Bach Festival Orchestra performs Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No.1 and Orchestral Suite No. 4. Tricia Van Oers is featured in Vivaldi’s Concerto for Recorder (The Goldfinch). The center piece is the Bach Chaconne Project featuring talented young musicians chosen by audition who will perform variations over the chord progressions of Bach’s Chaconne in D Minor. Weekend 1, Caroline Goulding, and weekend 2 Elizabeth Field will perform the Chaconne in its original form.
Saturday, May 2 2:30pm & 4:30pm
The Mass in B Minor
Packer Memorial Church, Lehigh University, Bethlehem
A glorious tradition treasured by thousands of people from throughout the United States and beyond since the American premiere of Bach’s monumental Mass at the first Bethlehem Bach Festival in 1900.
Saturday, May 2 9-11pm
Zimmermann’s Coffee House
Chamber Music, Food & Drink
Historic Hotel Bethlehem
Join us for a new late night Bach Festival event offered in the beautiful Terrace Room of Historic Hotel Bethlehem. This informal, “unbuttoned” event is modeled after the Zimmermann’s Coffeehouse of Bach’s time in Leipzig, Germany. For a very reasonable cover charge or $10, you can listen to baroque chamber music performed by young musicians (chosen by audition) and purchase German-themed wine, beer, and food. There may even be some surprise guests to add to the festivity. Dr. Larry Lipkis is the master of ceremonies.
Tickets and Information at www.bach.org