Saturday, June 13, 5:00 pm

Rockport Chamber Music Festival

Simone Dinnerstein, piano

GAVOTTE ET SIX DOUBLES, FROM THE SUITE IN A MAJOR (NOUVELLES SUITES DE PIÈCES DE CLAVECIN) (c1729-30)

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)

TWELVE VARIATIONS ON A CHORALE BY BACH (2002)

Philip Lasser (b. 1963)

Chorale – “Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott”

Variation 1 – Sempre espressivo e molto legato

Variation 2 – Più vivo

Variation 3 – Più vivo – Sempre leggero e poco staccato

Variation 4 – Evenly, maintaining a strange disembodied expressivity

Variation 5 – Largo

Variation 6 – Allegro vivace

Variation 7 – Robusto

Variation 8 – Maestoso

Variation 9 – Largo

Variation 10 – Presto, quasi una Toccata

Variation 11 – Variation of Variations – Allegro amabile

Variation 12 – Andante con moto

INTERMISSION

15 SINFONIAS (THREE-PART INVENTIONS), BWV 787–801 (1723)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Sinfonia No. 1 in C major, BWV 787
 Sinfonia No. 2 in C minor, BWV 788
 Sinfonia No. 3 in D major, BWV 789
 Sinfonia No. 4 in D minor, BWV 790
 Sinfonia No. 5 in E-flat major, BWV 791
 Sinfonia No. 6 in E major, BWV 792
 Sinfonia No. 7 in E minor, BWV 793
 Sinfonia No. 8 in F major, BWV 794
 Sinfonia No. 9 in F minor, BWV 795
 Sinfonia No. 10 in G major, BWV 796
 Sinfonia No. 11 in G minor, BWV 797
 Sinfonia No. 12 in A major, BWV 798
 Sinfonia No. 13 in A minor, BWV 799
 Sinfonia No. 14 in B-flat major, BWV 800
 Sinfonia No. 15 in B minor, BWV 801

THIS CONCERT IS GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY MOLLIE BYRNES.

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