PERFORMANCE
Bach Interactions: A Dynamic Performance & Learning Experience
About the Series
Nine virtual programs offer some of the finest works in the cantata and oratorio repertory. You’ll enjoy the Washington Bach Consort as you’ve never heard them before, but you’ll also gain revelations and insights into the music itself coming from our two resident Bach scholars, Michael Marissen and Daniel R. Melamed. Supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the J. Reilly Lewis Legacy Fund, Bach Interactions is a new digital concert experience offering the expressive heights of Bach’s musical language as well as the story behind its creation.
The series features three renowned cantatas, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140, Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131, and Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61, followed by all six parts of Bach’s beloved Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248. Each part will be presented on its intended day of liturgical observance, over the twelve days of Christmas to the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6).
Cantatas
PAST PERFORMANCES
Michael Marissen
Presenter
A Voice of Awakening
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140
Thursday, September 24, 2020 at 8 p.m. on Facebook
Sunday, September 27, 2020 at 5 p.m. on YouTube
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140
Chorale
Recitative
Aria duetto
Chorale
Recitative
Aria Duetto
Chorale
Soloists:
Margot Rood
soprano
Matthew Loyal Smith
tenor
Jason Widney
bass
Andrew Fouts
violino piccolo
Margaret Owens
oboe
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Vocalists:
Margot Rood* & Laura Choi-Stuart, sopranos; Sarah Davis Issaelkhoury & Kristen Dubenion-Smith, altos; Matthew Hill & Matthew Loyal Smith*, tenors; Jason Widney* & Jonathan Woody, basses
Instrumentalists:
Andrew Fouts†, violino piccolo; Tatiana Chulochnikova & Marika Holmqvist, violins; Risa Browder, viola; John Moran, violoncello; Jessica Powell Eig, violone; Margaret Owens* & Geoffrey Burgess, oboes; Sarah Weiner, taille; Brad Tatum, horn; Anna Marsh, bassoon; Adam Pearl, organ
soloists*
concertmaster†
Daniel R. Melamed
Presenter
A Voice in the Abyss
Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131
Thursday, October 22, 2020 at 8 p.m. on Facebook
Sunday, October 25, 2020 at 5 p.m. on YouTube
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131
Dictum [Chorus]
Dictum with chorale [solo]
Dictum [Chorus]
Dictum with chorale [solo]
Dictum [Chorus]
Soloists:
Katelyn Aungst
soprano
Reginald Mobley
countertenor
Jacob Perry, Jr.
tenor
Jonathan Woody
bass
Geoffrey Burgess
oboe
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Vocalists:
Katelyn Aungst, soprano; Reginald Mobley, countertenor; Jacob Perry, Jr., tenor; Jonathan Woody, bass;
Instrumentalists:
Andrew Fouts†, violin; Risa Browder, & Marika Holmqvist, violas; John Moran, violoncello; Jessica Powell Eig, violone; Geoffrey Burgess*, oboe; Anna Marsh, bassoon; Adam Pearl, organ
soloists*
concertmaster†
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