Chamber Music Series

Brandenburg Concertos

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Performances

Dec 4

Performance Run Time: 1 hour 55 minutes, including intermission.

In an annual Harris Theater holiday tradition, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center returns this December with Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. These concertos stand at the pinnacle of Baroque musical art. His addictive melodic ideas, his consummate contrapuntal technique, and his instrumental ingenuity combine in works that have gained true musical immortality. Bach’s six masterpieces unfailingly provide spiritual fulfillment for music lovers of all faiths and beliefs, inspiring strength at year’s end and a vision of the brightest future.

Program
J.S. Bach Complete Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051 (1720)

Artist Roster
Mika Sasaki, harpsichord
Francisco Fullana, violin
Bella Hristova, violin
Daniel Phillips, violin
Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, violin/viola
Matthew Lipman, viola
Paul Neubauer, viola
Dmitri Atapine, cello
Nicholas Canellakis, cello
Sterling Elliott, cello
Nina Bernat, double bass
Sooyun Kim, flute
Tara Helen O'Connor, flute
Randall Ellis, oboe
James Austin Smith, oboe
Stephen Taylor, oboe
Marc Goldberg, bassoon
Stewart Rose, horn
Tanner West, horn
David Washburn, trumpet

About Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Founded in 1969, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) brings the transcendent experience of great chamber music to more people than any other organization of its kind worldwide. Under the artistic leadership of cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han, the multi-generational and international performing artist roster of 140 of the world’s finest chamber musicians enables us to present chamber music of every instrumentation, style, and historical period.

Each season, we reach a global audience with more than 150 performances and education programs in our home at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and the Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio at CMS and on tour with residencies worldwide.

We offer a wide range of learning formats and experiences to engage and inform listeners of all ages, backgrounds, and levels of musical knowledge through our education programs. The Bowers Program, our competitive three-season residency, is dedicated to developing the chamber music leaders of the future and integrates this selection of exceptional early-career musicians into every facet of CMS activities.

Our incomparable digital presence, which regularly enables us to reach millions of viewers and listeners annually, includes our weekly national radio program, heard locally on WQXR 105.9 FM on Monday evenings; radio programming in Taiwan and mainland China; and appearances on American Public Media’s Performance Today, the monthly program In Concert with CMS on the PBS ALL ARTS broadcast channel, and SiriusXM’s Symphony Hall channel, among others. The PBS documentary film Chamber Music Society Returns chronicles CMS’s return to live concerts at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and on a six-city national tour. It is currently available to watch on PBS Passport. Our website also hosts an online archive of more than 1,700 video recordings of performance and education videos free to the public.