The Salish Sea Early Music Festival presents a May Bach Festival to include two performances of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach with guest musicians Maike Albrecht and harpsichordist Hans-Jürgen Schnoor from Lübeck, Germany, according to a press release.
The two concerts take place at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Freeland. Admission is by suggested donation of $20 or $25. Those 18 and under are free. All are welcome regardless of donation. For additional information, go to salishseafestival.org/whidbey.
At 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 7, the festival presents “A Bach Cantata: Ich Habe Genug” with soprano Maike Albrecht and harpsichordist Hans-Jürgen Schnoor along with baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan in a performance of Bach’s sacred cantata, Ich Habe Genug, and other selections of his other works, including the Musical Offering trio sonata, the Italian Concerto for solo harpsichord and the Partita for solo flute.
The church cantata Ich Habe Genug (“I am content”), BWV 82 was composed in Leipzig in 1727 for the feast Purification of Mary and is one of the most often performed and recorded of Bach’s sacred cantatas.
“In this cantata, based on the Song of Simeon, Bach projects a feeling of serene contentedness with life and an expression of the experience of body and soul coming to rest and in complete harmony beyond anything that mere words can convey,” according to festival organizers.
“Concerti & Cantatas” by Bach is at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday May 21 and features soprano Maike Albrecht, harpsichordist Hans-Jürgen Schnoor and flutist Jeffrey Cohan with baroque orchestra, to include Cantata 209 Non sa che sia dolore, the Suite No. 2 in B Minor and the Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 among other works by Johann Sebastian Bach. The baroque chamber orchestra will include violinists Carrie Krause and Elisabeth Phelps, violinst Lindsey Strand-Polyak and cellist Adaiha Macadam-Somer.
The Salish Sea Early Music Festival presents early chamber music on period instruments around Puget Sound region and in Eastern Washington, and is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, and an affiliate organization of Early Music America.
