Bach's Brandenburg Concertos​

Experience a Beloved Holiday Tradition — For the First Time with CMS in Saratoga

This December, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center brings one of the Baroque era’s most iconic masterpieces to Saratoga Springs: the Complete Brandenburg Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Hailed by The New Yorker as “joyous, effervescent, and yes, festive,” CMS’s performances of these concertos have become a treasured holiday tradition in New York City. Now, for the first time in our 12-year partnership, SPAC audiences can experience all six works in one dazzling evening—performed by twenty of the world’s finest chamber musicians on the stage of the Arthur Zankel Music Center at Skidmore College.

Overflowing with inventiveness, virtuosity, and exuberance, Bach’s Brandenburgs are a timeless celebration of human creativity and the unifying power of music. This luminous performance promises to uplift and inspire—a radiant finale to the year, and a stirring glimpse of all that lies ahead.

Program

Performers

MIKA SASAKI, harpsichord

FRANCISCO FULLANA, violin

BELLA HRISTOVA, violin

DANIEL PHILLIPS, violin

TIEN-HSIN CINDY WU, violin/viola

MATTHEW LIPMAN, viola

PAUL NEUBAUER, viola

DMITRI ATAPINE, cello

NICHOLAS CANELLAKIS, cello

STERLING ELLIOTT, cello

NINA BERNAT, double bass

SOOYUN KIM, flute

TARA HELEN O’CONNOR, flute

RANDALL ELLIS, oboe

JAMES AUSTIN SMITH, oboe

STEPHEN TAYLOR, oboe

MARC GOLDBERG, bassoon

STEWART ROSE, horn

HUGO VALVERDE, horn

DAVID WASHBURN, trumpet

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