Beginning on March 6, 2017, New York Baroque Incorporated (NYBI) will return to Trinity Wall Street carrying the torch of the esteemed institution’s Bach at One series. The free, one-hour, lunchtime performances at Saint Paul’s Chapel take place on Mondays at 1:00 pm through May 8, 2017. The programmatic thread binding this year’s Bach at One series is the composer’s Clavierübung III, or "German Organ Mass." With each program taking a theme from the Lutheran liturgy, sections of the Clavierübung, which will be performed by Avi Stein and Trinity Wall Street Music Director Julian Wachner, will be interspersed with instrumental and vocal works by Bach and more than a dozen of his continental contemporaries including Dietrich Buxtehude and Johann Philipp Krieger, both notable and prolific creators of sacred compositions, and the cosmopolitan Georg Philipp Telemann. Collaborating with soloists of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, New York Baroque Incorporated will also present several of Bach’s popular cantatas and his St. John Passion. This year’s Bach at One series celebrates the arrival of a two manual Noack organ at Saint Paul’s Chapel.

New York Baroque Incorporated first collaborated with Trinity Wall Street and Julian Wachner on January 1, 2016 as part of Trinity’s Twelfth Night Festival, performing works by Bach, Handel, Haydn and Michael Daugherty. The memorable concert proved to be “a hot start to the New Year” (Time Out New York) and can be viewed here.

New York Baroque Incorporated’s Bach at One series traverses a diverse musical terrain. The Bach cantatas to be performed are Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, BWV 9; Ich habe genug, BWV 82; Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150; Komm, du süße Todesstunde, BWV 161; Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170; and Bekennen will ich seinen Namen, BWV 200. At the start of Holy Week, on April 10, 2016, NYBI will combine forces with Julian Wachner and The Choir of Trinity Wall Street for Bach’s St. John Passion, which will feature one instrument playing each of the orchestral parts, and two singers each per the choral parts.

Choral and vocal works by Buxtehude, whose compositional style had a significant influence on Bach, include An filius non est Dei, BuxWV 6; Gott hilf mir, denn das Wasser, BuxWV 34; Ist es recht, BuxWV 54; and Jubilate Domino, BuxWV 64.

Organist and composer Krieger is represented by the first of his 12 sonatas for two violins and continuo; and two of his 2,000 or so cantatas, Herr, auf dich trau ich, and O Jesu, du mein Leben.

From the prolific output of Telemann, whose 250th death anniversary falls this year, NYBI and their collaborators will perform the funeral cantata Du aber, Daniel, gehe hin, the Missa brevis, and the instrumental Quartet in A minor TWV 43:a3 for recorder, oboe, violin and continuo.

Rounding out NYBI’s Bach at One series is music by J. S. Bach’s sons Wilhelm Friedemann and Johann Christian; fellow-Germans Johann David Heinichen, Gottlieb Muffat and Johann Michael Nicolai; Dutchman Johannes Schenck; French composers François Couperin and Marin Marias; and Italians Francesco Maria Veracini and Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri. For the final program, Julian Wachner provides a modern twist with his arrangement of the Jimmy Page / Robert Plant classic rock song Stairway to Heaven.

A full concert listing is provided below.

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For further information about New York Baroque Incorporated please visit http://www.nybaroque.org

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PROGRAM INFORMATION
Monday, March 6, 2017 – 1:00 pm
“MERCY”
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
Clavier-Übung III: Kyrie, Christe, Kyrie, BWV 672-4
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 – 1767) Missa brevis, TWV 9:14
Johann Philipp Krieger (1649 – 1725) Sonata No. 1 for two violins in D Minor
J. S. Bach Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170
     with Jakub Józef Orlińsk, countertenor

Monday, March 13, 2017 – 1:00 pm
“PRAISE”
Johannes Schenck (1660 – 1712) Le Nymphe di Rheno, Sonata xii
J. S. Bach Clavier-Übung III: Allein gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 675
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637 – 1707) Jubilate Domino, BuxWV 64
Johann Michael Nicolai (1629 – 85) Ciaconi a tre viol da gamba
Buxtehude An filius non est Dei, BuxWV 6
     with Nicholas Tamagna, countertenor
Marin Marais (1656 – 1728) Pieces de viole, book 4, Suite in G Major

Monday, March 20, 2017 – 1:00 pm
“LAW”
J. S. Bach Clavier-Übung III: Dies sind die heil'gen zehn Gebot, BWV 679
J. S. Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5: I. Allegro
Buxtehude Ist es recht, BuxWV 54
Johann David Heinichen (1683 – 1729) Concerto in D Major, S 226
J. S. Bach Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, BWV 9

Monday, March 27, 2017 – 1:00 pm
“FAITH”
J. S. Bach Clavier-Übung III: Wir glauben all' an einen Gott, BWV 681
Krieger Herr, auf dich trau ich
J. S. Bach Bekennen will ich seinen Namen, BWV 200
Buxtehude Trio Sonata Op. 2, No. 5
Krieger O Jesu, du mein Leben
J. S. Bach Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150
     with Sherry Panthaki, soprano

Monday, April 3, 2017 – 1:00 pm
“COMFORT”
J. S. Bach Clavier-Übung III: Vater unser im Himmelreich, BWV 683
J. S. Bach Ich habe genug, BWV 82
Francesco Maria Veracini (1690 – 1798) Ouverture VI in G Minor
J. S. Bach Komm, du süße Todesstunde, BWV 161

Monday, April 10, 2017 – 1:00 pm
“SACRIFICE”
J. S. Bach St. John Passion, BWV 245

Monday, April 24, 2017 – 1:00 pm
“WATER”
J. S. Bach Clavier-Übung III: Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 685
Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri (1690 – 1764) A Tempesta di Mare, Op.1 No.12
Johann Christian Bach (1735 – 1782) Ach, dass ich Wassers gnug hätte
Gottlieb Muffat (1690 – 1770) “No. 2 in G Minor” from Armonico tributo
Buxtehude Gott hilf mir, denn das Wasser, BuxWV 34

Monday, May 1, 2017 – 1:00 pm
“SORROW”
J. S. Bach Clavier-Übung III: Aus tiefer Noth schrei' ich zu dir, BWV 687
François Couperin (1668 – 1733) Troisième Leçon à deux voix from Leçons de ténèbres
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710 – 1784) Symphony in F Major Fk 67 Dissonante
J.S. Bach Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131

Monday, May 8, 2017 – 1:00 pm
“GRADUS AD PARNASSUM”
J. S. Bach Clavier-Übung III: Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, BWV 689
J. S. Bach Sehet! Wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem, BWV 159
Telemann Quartet in A Minor, TWV 43:a3
Jimmy Page/Robert Plant, arr. Wachner Stairway to Heaven
Telemann Du aber, Daniel, gehe hin TWV 4:17

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