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Baroque Festival

Bach Cantatas

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Tue, Dec 9, 2025, 7:30 pm

Alice Tully Hall

2 hours, including intermission

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No composer wrote more voluminously or skillfully for the voice than Johann Sebastian Bach, and this selection of chamber cantatas offers a gorgeous sampling of Bach’s vocal music, including his only cantatas in Italian. Caffeine dependency is not a recent trend, as shown in the satirical “Coffee Cantata,” in effect a short comic opera about a drink that was taking Europe by storm; the cantata, in which a father attempts to bribe his daughter to give up the tantalizing beverage, humorously mocks both the growing popularity of coffee and the feeling that the trendy drink was a bad habit.

“If I couldn’t, three times a day, be allowed to drink my little cup of coffee, in my anguish I will turn into a shriveled-up roast goat!” 

Program

Johann Sebastian Bach

(1685–1750)

Non sa che sia dolore, BWV 209

(c. 1747)

Johann Sebastian Bach

(1685–1750)

Durchlauchtster Leopold, BWV 173.1

(1722)

Johann Sebastian Bach

(1685–1750)

Amore traditore, BWV 203

(1718-19)

Johann Sebastian Bach

(1685–1750)

Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht, BWV 211, "Coffee Cantata"

(c. 1734)

Joélle Harvey

Soprano

Paul Appleby

Tenor

John Moore

Baritone

Kenneth Weiss

Harpsichord

Ani Kavafian

Violin

Cho-Liang Lin

Violin

Lawrence Dutton

Viola

Timothy Eddy

Cello

Blake Hinson

Double Bass

Demarre McGill

Flute

Yoobin Son

Flute

Peter Kolkay

Bassoon
Presented at

Alice Tully Hall

1941 Broadway at, W 65th St New York, NY 10023
Elias Gottlob Haussmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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