Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Bach Orchestral Suites
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22
5 PM
LENSIC
BACH ORCHESTRAL SUITES
Santa Fe Opera Music Director Harry Bicket leads an ensemble of Opera musicians in two of Bach’s orchestral suites: BWV 1067, a showpiece for the flute, and BWV 1068, famous for its gorgeous second movement, which, in various arrangements, is known as the Air on the G String. Bicket also conducts Bach’s immaculate Violin Concerto in A Minor, BWV 1041, which spotlights the Opera’s concertmaster, Nikki Chooi, in his Festival debut.
BACH Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067
BACH Violin Concerto in A Minor, BWV 1041
BACH Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068
Harry Bicket, conductor and harpsichord; Nikki Chooi, violin soloist and concertmaster; Bart Feller, flute soloist; with an ensemble of Santa Fe Opera Orchestra musicians
Approximate length: 1 hour and 10 minutes
$29—$78