Monica Huggett and Alexander Weimann: Bach Intimacies
$20-$39
J.S. Bach – Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue
Seattle and Portland have hosted the region’s finest Baroque ensembles for decades. It is only fitting that the music directors of the Portland Baroque Orchestra and Seattle Baroque Orchestra join together to present this Northwest premiere. “Bach Intimacies” showcases the great master’s finest works for violin and harpsichord, including the sonatas for violin and obbligato harpsichord, a partita for solo violin, and the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue.
Admission: $39 ($20 students/$25 discount side-section seating)
Presented by the Early Music Guild of Seattle.
--> LMP CRITIC'S PICK. Hearing Baroque violinist Monica Huggett and harpsichordist Alexander Weimann elucidate Bach will be a rare treat. Bach can translate to any instrument and succeed – I’ve heard it on steel band, jazzed up, romantic style or with incredible vocal agility by the Swingle Singers – but this is the pure version as close to Bach‘s day as he would have heard it, played by musicians steeped in understanding music of the era and how it was played. ~ Philippa Kiraly, classical music critic