FULL PROGRAM:
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Handel Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 4 in A minor
Bach Cantata 169: Gott soll allein mein Herze haben (God alone shall have my heart)
FEATURED SOLOISTS:
Rebecca Printz, alto *
*The alto soloist for this concert is endowed in Honor of Dr. Martha Connolly
Keep your New Year spirits high with this rousing concert of large scale works by Bach and Handel. The concert opens with Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, which is the youngest of J.S. Bach’s famous set. The concerto is saturated with references to the “holy” number three, ranging from the title to the ensemble, which is made of three groups of strings, each containing three parts, to the number of notes in the principal motive of the first movement. In addition, unlike the era’s typical concerto, the third Brandenburg is a “ripieno concerto,” meaning that players are both soloists and ensemble players. In our time, such a work would be called a concerto for orchestra. Paired with this is Handel’s Concerto Grosso Op.6, No. 4 in A minor. In the fall of 1739, in the astonishing span of one month, Handel composed a set of twelve concerti grossi. Concerto No. 4 in A minor opens with pomp. The expansive melody is at turns gallant, warm, sensuous, and mysterious. The concert concludes with Bach Cantata 169: Gott soll allein mein Herze haben (God alone shall have my heart), a solo cantata for an alto soloist. All of the works epitomize the lasting beauty of the two giants in Western musical traditions.
Rebecca Printz, mezzo-soprano
Mezzo-Soprano Rebecca Printz has performed as a Bach soloist with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center, and Boston’s Emmanuel Music. Rebecca recently participated in Yellow Barn’s summer music festival, where she performed chamber works by Salvatore Sciarrino, George Benjamin, and Brett Dean, among others. She has also spent two summers at the Marlboro Music festival, where she performed a number of seminal chamber works, including Chausson’s “Chanson Perpétuelle”, Bach solo alto cantata BWV 170, “Vergnügte Ruh”, and the Brahms’s Liebeslieder Walzer. Rebecca is a recent graduate of Boston University’s Opera Institute, where her roles included Baba the Turk in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, Hannah After in Laura Kaminsky’s chamber opera As One, and the title role in Dolores Claiborne by Tobias Picker. Her concert work in Boston included a performance with Winsor music as the soloist in Bach’s cantata BWV 82, “Ich habe genug”, and John Harbison’s chamber work “The Seven Ages” with Collage New Music. Rebecca earned her graduate degree at Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where role highlights included Madame de la Haltière in Massenet’s Cendrillon, Paquette in Candide, and Zita in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. Rebecca earned her undergraduate degree at Oberlin College and Conservatory, where she sang the title role in Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia.
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