Phillips Collection: Christopher Costanza (Second Concert)
In person: SOLD OUT
Stream: $15 ($10 member)
- Christopher Costanza, cello
Johann Sebastian Bach — Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008
Johann Sebastian Bach — Cello Suite No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012
Note: In-person tickets for this performances are currently sold out. However, streaming tickets are still available.
Phillips Music starts 2024 with a special performance of all Six Solo Cello Suites by J.S. Bach, performed across two concerts by leading American cellist Christopher Costanza, a member of the legendary St. Lawrence String Quartet. Costanza recorded the Suites in 2012, setting down his personal account of music that was largely forgotten in Bach's own time until the 1890s when a young Pablo Caslas discovered the manuscript in a second-hand music shop in Barcelona.
The Suites have since become a towering pinnacle of Western music. Costanza approaches the Cello Suites from Baroque conceptions of gesture, dance, and idiomatic writing, and considers the ways in which musical and physical gestures may have converged in Bach's mind when composing the Suites. Costanza’s first concert (at 1 pm) features Suites Nos. 3, 4, and 5, the second (at 4 pm) Suites Nos.1, 2, and 6.
This event will be broadcast live from the Music Room on Sunday, January 14 at 4pm Eastern. All registered ticket holders will receive a link directing them to a livestream webpage where the performance can be accessed. Ticket holders will be able to watch this performance "On Demand" for 48 hours following the broadcast time.