AGENDA

The Iberian style: keyboard music by Domenico Scarlatti and Antonio Soler.

Duo Belder Kimura will play four of the six Sonatas for harpsichord and violin by Johann Sebastian Bach.

When recording the complete works of Jacques Duphly in 2014, Pieter-Jan Belder and Rie Kimura worked together for the first time. After a successful tour in Japan, they decided to perpetuate their collaboration. Their playing, focused on the rhetorical qualities in the music of the 17th and early 18th centuries, is characterized by great vitality and intensity.

Johann Sebastian Bach wrote his St. John Passion in 1724 in three months. The work was premiered on Good Friday of that year, and Bach would return to it several more times. As a result, multiple versions exist as Bach added, replaced or removed arias and choruses. No matter: each version is compelling and dramatic and can easily hold its own alongside the later written St. Matthew Passion.

Johann Sebastian Bach wrote his St. John Passion in 1724 in three months. The work was premiered on Good Friday of that year, and Bach would return to it several more times. As a result, multiple versions exist as Bach added, replaced or removed arias and choruses. No matter: each version is compelling and dramatic and can easily hold its own alongside the later written St. Matthew Passion.