Bach is back in time for Easter

Israeli Bach Soloists, a young and talented local ensemble, presents a program dedicated to Easter music.

israeli bach soloists 311 (photo credit: Maxim Reider)
israeli bach soloists 311
(photo credit: Maxim Reider)
Israeli Bach Soloists, a young and talented local ensemble which thisyear is performing a cycle of Bach’s cantatas, all selected accordingto the Lutheran calendar, presents a program dedicated to Easter music.The concert takes place at the Kiryat-Yearim church in Abu Ghosh at noonon Saturday, March 20.
The program features Bach’s Cantata BWV 166 “Wo gehst du hin?” and the choral movement “Sei nun wieder zufrieden” from Cantata BWV 21, as well as Pergolesi’s setting of the Stabat Mater, a highly dramatic text describing Christ’s mother standing next to the cross and weeping.
The participants are Hadas Faran, soprano, Avital Dery, alto, DavidNortman, tenor, Yair Polishook, bass,Yigal Kaminka, oboe, HadasFabrikant and Rachel Ringelstein,violins, Katya Polin, viola, IraGivol, violoncello, Zohar Shefi, organ and Sharon Rosner, conductor.
The concert, with the addition of two concerti for mandolin andorchestra by Bach and Pergolesi (soloist Yaki Reuvenv) will be repeatedat Ben-Gurion University’s Sonenfeld hall in Beersheba on the followingWednesday at 8:30 p.m.
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