Bach: Durchlauchtster Leopold, BWV 173.1
Johann Sebastian Bach: Durchlauchtster Leopold, BWV 173.1 (1722)
Recitative: Durchlauchtster Leopold
Aria: Güldner Sonnen frohe Stunden
Aria: Leopolds Vortrefflichkeiten
Aria: Unter seinem Purpursaum
Recitative: Durchlauchtigster, den Anhalt Vater nennt
Aria: So schau dies holden Tages Licht
Aria: Dein Name gleich der Sonnen geh
Chorus: Nimm auch, großer Fürst, uns auf
Recorded live in Alice Tully Hall on Tuesday, December 9, 2025.
Video produced by IBIS Productions
Edited by Allison Kraus
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Joélle Harvey
John Moore
Demarre McGill
Yoobin Son
Peter Kolkay
Cho-Liang Lin
Ani Kavafian
Lawrence Dutton
Timothy Eddy
Blake Hinson
Kenneth Weiss
A native of Bolivar, New York, soprano Joélle Harvey received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in vocal performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). She began her career training at Glimmerglass Opera (now The Glimmerglass Festival) and the Merola Opera Program.
The soprano begins the 2023-2024 season with an appearance at London’s Wigmore Hall, singing the role of Tirsi in Handel’s Clori, Tirsi e Fileno, with Harry Bicket leading The English Concert. She will sing Handel’s Messiah with the Chicago Symphony, North Carolina Symphony and Handel & Haydn Society, Fauré’s Requiem with the National Symphony Orchestra, and a program of Haydn and Mozart with H&H. Season debuts include the Houston Symphony, for Orff’s Carmina Burana, and the New World Symphony, for Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. Notably, Harvey joins two long-tenured Music Directors for their farewell seasons: Louis Langrée, leading the Cincinnati Symphony in Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, and the Kansas City Symphony’s Michael Stern, who conducts performances of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2.
Ms. Harvey’s 2022-2023 season brought appearances with a host of internationally-acclaimed organizations. She joined the New York Philharmonic as the soprano soloist in a gala performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, celebrating the opening of David Geffen Hall and conducted by Jaap van Zweden. She debuted with the Bamberg Symphoniker at the Lucerne Festival (Mahler’s 4th & Alma Mahler songs, conducted by Jakub Hrůša), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (Handel’s Solomon with Robin Ticciati), and the Minnesota Orchestra (Haydn’s The Creation with Paul McCreesh). The season also held returns to the Cleveland Orchestra (Schubert Mass in E-flat in Cleveland and at Carnegie Hall), Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Carmina Burana), the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (Mahler 2) and the Metropolitan Opera (Pamina in The Magic Flute). Notable chamber performances included a recital with baritone John Moore and pianist Allen Perriello for Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and appearances with the Chamber Music Societies of Lincoln Center and Palm Beach. She also made her Jacksonville Symphony debut, for Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem and debut with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in an all-Handel program conducted by Bernard Labadie at Carnegie Hall. During the summer of 2023, she returned to the Glyndebourne Festival as the title role in a new production of Handel’s Semele, and to the BBC Proms, singing the Israelite Woman in Handel’s Samson with Laurence Cummings and the Academy of Ancient Music.
Ms. Harvey’s engagements during the 2021-2022 season included debuts at Opernhaus Zürich (Aristea in Pergolesi’s L’Olimpiade), the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, conducted by Jakub Hrůša), and The University Musical Society at University of Michigan (Handel’s Messiah). She joined Les Violons du Roy for further Messiah performances, returned to the North Carolina Symphony (Mahler’s Symphony No. 4), the Indianapolis Symphony (Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9), and continued her close collaboration with Boston’s Handel & Haydn Society with Haydn’s The Creation, led by Harry Christophers CBE in his final performances as H&H Artistic Director.
During the 2020-2021 season, Ms. Harvey filmed a performance of Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5 with The Cleveland Orchestra as part of their re-configured season, made her Cincinnati Symphony May Festival debut, performing Britten’s Les Illuminations and joined the Handel & Haydn Society for a filmed production of their annual Messiah concert. Additionally, she collaborated with Los Angeles Opera on Anna Clyne’s The Gorgeous Nothings, a setting of Emily Dickinson texts for their On Now initiative, and later in the summer joined the Elgin Symphony for Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, and Bard Summerscape for performances of songs by Nadia Boulanger as well as excerpts of Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzer.
Other originally scheduled events included her company debut with the Opernhaus Zürich as Aristea in Pergolesi’s L’Olimpiade (postponed), Pat Nixon in Nixon in China with Washington National Opera (cancelled) and Los Angeles Philharmonic (cancelled), Kansas City Symphony for their Messiah (cancelled), L’oca del cairo with Mozartwoche Salzburg (postponed), a Schubert concert with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (postponed), the Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem with San Diego Symphony and Edo de Waart (cancelled), and Mahler’s 2nd Symphony with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (cancelled).
An in-demand vocal soloist, the soprano regularly appears with the United States’ great orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic (Mozart’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah), the Cleveland Orchestra (Mahler’s 2nd & 4th, Bach’s B Minor Mass), the San Francisco Symphony (Fidelio, Beethoven Mass in C, Handel’s Messiah, Carmina Burana), and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Nixon in China, Beethoven Missa Solemnis). She has closely collaborated with a celebrated list of conductors, including Leonardo García Alarcón, Harry Bicket, Harry Christophers, Jakub Hrůša, Louis Langrée, Michael Tilson Thomas, Edo de Waart and Franz Welser-Möst.
On the operatic stage, Ms. Harvey appears regularly at the Glyndebourne Festival, having bowed in 7 roles, including Handel’s Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare), Mozart’s Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) and Donizetti’s Adina (L’elisir d’amore). She made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Pamina in The Magic Flute, her Royal Opera, Covent Garden debut as Susanna, and appeared as Galatea in Acis and Galatea and Zerlina in Don Giovanni with the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. Other opera performances include Flora in The Turn of the Screw with Houston Grand Opera, Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress with Utah Opera, as well as Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Eurydice in Telemann’s Orpheus with New York City Opera.
Joélle Harvey is closely associated with Boston’s Handel & Haydn Society, where her varied appearances have included Michal in Saul, Dalilia in Samson, and Iphis in Jephtha, as well as London’s The English Concert (Almirena in Rinaldo, Tigrane in Radamisto, Handel’s Messiah). She made her solo Carnegie Hall recital debut in 2019 with pianist Allen Perriello, and has appeared at the BBC Proms as the Mater Gloriosa in Mahler’s 8th Symphony, Servilia in La clemenza di Tito and as a soloist in Bach’s B Minor Mass. She performed John Adams’ El Niño at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and with the London Symphony Orchestra, in a performance conducted by the composer. Other career highlights include appearances with the Saint Louis Symphony (Mahler 2), Dallas Symphony Orchestra (Mozart Requiem), Toronto Symphony (Mahler 2), and repeat appearances with the orchestras of Cincinnati, Kansas City, Milwaukee, North Carolina, and Indianapolis.
A celebrated chamber musician, Ms. Harvey has appeared with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Music @ Menlo, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Tafelmusik, Les Violons du Roy, Cappella Mediterranea, Arcangelo and the Pygmalion Ensemble.
Joélle Harvey received Second Prize in Houston Grand Opera’s Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers. She was the recipient of a First Prize Award from the Gerda Lissner Foundation and a Sara Tucker Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation. She is a recipient of the Shoshana Foundation’s Richard F. Gold Career Grant, and was also presented with the John Alexander Memorial Award and the coveted Sam Adams Award for Achievement in Acting from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM).
A regular performer in both Europe and the United States, John Moore is garnering praise for his energetic performances and burnished baritone in both operatic and concert repertoire. He is a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Program. During the 2024–25 season, Moore makes his Lyric Opera of Chicago debut as Dillon in Mazzoli and Vavrek’s The Listeners, and returns to Opera Philadelphia for performances of the same role. He also debuts with Washington National Opera as Steve Jobs in The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, a role he has sung across the United States to great acclaim. With Odyssey Opera and Boston Modern Orchestra Project, he will perform and record the role of Kinesias in Mark Adamo’s Lysistrata. He joins the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra twice this season, for concerts of Handel’s Messiah followed later by performances of Poulenc’s Le bal masqué. Future seasons include his debut with the Finnish National Opera. On the concert stage, he has appeared at Carnegie Hall with the Oratorio Society of New York under the direction of Kent Tritle, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and CMS. He was the baritone soloist in the American premiere of Juraj Filas’s Oratorio Spei with Sacred Music in a Sacred Space. Mr. Moore has also given recitals at his alma mater, Simpson College, People’s Symphony Concerts in New York, and Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music, and has toured with Musicians from Marlboro. In addition, Mr. Moore took part in a studio recording of Peter Lieberson’s The Coming of Light with CCM, and premiered Lieberson’s The Coming of Light with Chicago Chamber Musicians.
Flutist Demarre McGill has gained international recognition as a soloist, recitalist, chamber, and orchestral musician. Winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, he has appeared as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the San Francisco, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Grant Park, San Diego, Chicago, and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras. Now principal flute of the Seattle Symphony, he previously served as principal flute of the Dallas Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Florida Orchestra, and Santa Fe Opera Orchestra. He has also served as acting principal flute of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. McGill is an alum of CMS’s Bowers Program and has participated in the Santa Fe, Marlboro, Seattle, and Stellenbosch chamber music festivals, among others.
Flutist Yoobin Son has been a member of the New York Philharmonic since 2012. Before joining the Philharmonic, she served as principal flute of the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center (formerly the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra) and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, building a career that spans orchestral, solo, and chamber music. As a soloist, Son has appeared with ensembles including the Seoul Philharmonic, Prime Philharmonic, New Haven Symphony, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, and Bay Atlantic Symphony. She has also given recitals throughout the US and Asia, with notable performances on Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series and Seoul’s Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation Young Artist Series. A dedicated chamber musician, she has participated in festivals such as Marlboro and Music from Angel Fire. Also committed to education, Son teaches flute and chamber music at NYU Steinhardt and leads master classes nationwide. She holds degrees from Curtis, Yale, and the Manhattan School of Music.
Called “stunningly virtuosic” by the New York Times and “superb” by the Washington Post, Peter Kolkay is the only bassoonist to be awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant. In addition to performing with CMS, he regularly appears as a chamber musician at the Sarasota, Music@Menlo, and Bridgehampton summer festivals. Kolkay has commissioned and premiered solo works by Joan Tower, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Elliott Carter, and Tania León, among many others, and his most recent recordings include an album of music for bassoon and strings with the Calidore String Quartet, and the Christopher Rouse concerto with the Albany Symphony. He is Professor of Bassoon at the Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music and has given master classes throughout the US, Mexico, and South Korea. Kolkay is an alum of CMS’s Bowers Program, and holds degrees from Lawrence University, the Eastman School of Music, and Yale University. He is a native of Naperville, Illinois.
Cho-Liang Lin’s concert career launched in 1980 with his debut playing the Mendelssohn Concerto with the New York Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta. He has since performed as soloist with virtually every major orchestra in the world. At age 31 he joined the faculty of the Juilliard School, and in 2006 was appointed professor at Rice University. He was music director of La Jolla SummerFest for 18 years, currently serves as artistic director of the Beare’s Premiere Music Festival in Hong Kong, and recently founded the Taipei Music Academy and Festival. Many of today’s composers have written for him, including John Harbison, Christopher Rouse, Tan Dun, John Williams, Steven Stucky, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Bright Sheng, Paul Schoenfield, Lalo Schifrin, and Joan Tower. Lin performs on Stradivari and Samuel Zygmuntowicz violins. His recordings can be heard on the Sony Classical, Decca, BIS, Delos, and Ondine labels.
Violinist Ani Kavafian enjoys a prolific career as a soloist, chamber musician, and professor. She has performed with many of America’s leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and San Francisco Symphony. In the 2019-20 season, she continued her longtime association as an artist of the Chamber Music Society with appearances in New York and on tour. Last summer she participated in several music festivals, including the Heifetz International Institute and the Sarasota Chamber Music, Bridgehampton, Meadowmount, Norfolk, and Angel Fire festivals. She and her sister, violinist and violist Ida Kavafian, have performed with the symphonies of Detroit, Colorado, Tucson, San Antonio, and Cincinnati, and have recorded the music of Mozart and Sarasate on the Nonesuch label. She is a Full Professor at Yale University and has appeared at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall numerous times with colleagues and students from Yale. She has received an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions award and has appeared at the White House on three occasions. Her recordings can be heard on the Nonesuch, RCA, Columbia, Arabesque, and Delos labels. Born in Istanbul of Armenian heritage, Kavafian studied violin in the US with Ara Zerounian and Mischa Mischakoff. She received her master’s degree from The Juilliard School under Ivan Galamian. She plays the 1736 Muir McKenzie Stradivarius violin.
Lawrence Dutton was the violist of the nine-time Grammy-winning Emerson String Quartet, which in 2023 performed its final concert after a storied 47-year career. He has also performed as guest artist with the Beaux Arts and Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trios and the Juilliard and Guarneri String Quartets. With the late Isaac Stern he collaborated on the International Chamber Music Encounters at Carnegie Hall and in Jerusalem. He began violin studies with Margaret Pardee and viola studies with Francis Tursi at the Eastman School. He holds degrees from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Lillian Fuchs. Currently, Dutton is Distinguished Professor of Viola and Chamber Music at Stony Brook University; Distinguished Artist at the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia; and Artistic Director of the Hoch Chamber Music Series in Bronxville, New York. He exclusively uses Thomastik Spirocore strings, and his viola is a Samuel Zygmuntowicz (Brooklyn, 2025).
Cellist Timothy Eddy has earned distinction as a recitalist, soloist with orchestra, chamber musician, recording artist, and teacher of cello and chamber music. He has performed with numerous symphonies, including Dallas, Colorado, Jacksonville, North Carolina, and Stamford. He has appeared at the Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, Aspen, Santa Fe, Marlboro, Lockenhaus, Spoleto, and Sarasota music festivals. He has won prizes in numerous national and international competitions, including the 1975 Gaspar Cassado International Violoncello Competition in Italy. Eddy is currently Professor of Cello at the Juilliard School and New York’s Mannes College of Music, and he was a frequent faculty member at the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshops at Carnegie Hall. A former member of the Galimir Quartet, the New York Philomusica, and the Bach Aria Group, he collaborates regularly in recital with pianist Gilbert Kalish. He has recorded a wide range of repertoire from Baroque to avant-garde for the Angel, Arabesque, Columbia, CRI, Delos, Musical Heritage, New World, Nonesuch, Vanguard, Vox, and Sony Classical labels. He performs on a 1728 Matteo Goffriller cello.
Blake Hinson is a New York–based performer and educator. Assistant Principal Bass of the New York Philharmonic since 2016, and a member of the bass section since 2012; he maintains an active career that blends orchestral work, chamber music, and teaching. Beyond the Philharmonic, he has performed with Gerard Schwarz’s All-Star Orchestra in its 2022 and 2023 seasons and has recorded on major film soundtracks, including West Side Story (2021), In the Heights, and Don’t Worry Darling. Previously, he served as Principal Bass of the Grand Rapids Symphony and performed with the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center. An avid chamber musician, Hinson appears frequently with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center as well as the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, and on the Philharmonic’s Merkin Hall series. He teaches at the Manhattan School of Music and has held faculty and guest teaching roles at leading institutions.
Born in New York, Kenneth Weiss began his musical studies on piano. After attending the High School of Performing Arts he entered the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. It was through his studies on organ and harpsichord that he became aware of the vast early keyboard repertoire and decided to devote his professional life to it. He continued his studies with Gustav Leonhardt at the Amsterdam Conservatory and in 1985 settled in France, where he is still based today. Kenneth Weiss has worked as an accompanist, vocal coach, opera continuist, chamber musician, conductor, and soloist for several decades, performing extensively in Europe, North America, and Asia. A dedicated teacher, he is currently professor of chamber music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.