Fall 2018

Join the Aston Magna Chamber Players

A Baroque Concert for a Fall Afternoon

TICKETS

Sonatas by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784)

Dietrich Buxtehude (1737-1807)

 Plus excerpts from

J.S. Bach’s “A Musical Offering” (1747)

Sunday, October 28, 2018, 4 p.m.
Pre-concert talk at 3 p.m.
Saint James Place

Great Barrington, Mass.

Sonata in B Flat Op. 1, No. 4                          Dietrich Buxtehude
for violin, gamba and continuo

Vivace – Lento — Allegro

Sonata in B Minor BWV 1014                Johann Sebastian Bach
for violin and obbligato harpsichord

Adagio – Allegro – Andante – Allegro

Sonata in E Minor, (BR WFB B17) Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
for flute and continuo

Allegro ma non tanto – Sicialiano — Vivace

Intermission

Excerpts from “A Musical Offering”                              J. S. Bach

Three-voiced Ricercare(for keyboard)

Five Canons(orchestrated variously):

Perpetual canon on the Royal Theme

Canon in retrograde

Canon in contrary motion

Canon in augmentation and contrary motion

Canon à 4

Trio Sonata

Largo – Allegro – Andante – Allegro

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