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Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors
2025-2026: The Magnificent Violin
December 2025
Concert Calendar
Annual Baroque Festival
DEC 6 & 7
VIVALDI’S FOUR SEASONS
DEC 9
BACH CANTATAS
DEC 12, 14, 16
THE BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS
† Indicates that this artist is a current Bowers Program member.
* Indicates a CMS premiere.
Saturday, Dec 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Sunday, Dec 7, 2025 at 5:00 pm
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center • Alice Tully Hall
VIOLIN SPOTLIGHT / VIVALDI’S FOUR SEASONS
The annual Baroque Festival at CMS celebrates this season's theme, The Magnificent Violin, with a concert of violin solos featuring an all-star cast of CMS violinists: Chad Hoopes, Kristin Lee, Richard Lin, Arnaud Sussmann, and Julian Rhee. The program includes an array of solo repertoire from Telemann and Handel to Corelli and Bach, culminating in the virtuosic and timeless The Four Seasons by Vivaldi.
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Telemann Fantasia No. 10 in D major for Violin, TWV 40:23* (1735)
Handel Sonata in A major for Violin and Continuo, Op. 1, No. 3* (C. 1725-26)
Corelli Concerto Grosso in D major for Strings and Continuo, Op. 6, No. 4 (Published 1714)
Bach Concerto in E major for Violin, String (Before 1730)
Vivaldi The Four Seasons, Op. 8, Nos. 1–4 (1725)
Paolo Bordignon, HARPSICHORD • Chad Hoopes, Kristin Lee, Richard Lin, Julian Rhee†, Arnaud Sussmann, VIOLIN • Milena Pájaro-van de Stadt, James Thompson, VIOLA • Edward Arron, CELLO • Anthony Manzo, DOUBLE BASS
Paul Appleby, Joélle Harvey, and John Moore
Tuesday Dec 9, 2025, 7:30 PM
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center • Alice Tully Hall
BACH CANTATAS
This year's Baroque vocal program showcases Bach’s unmatched gift for vocal writing in a selection of intimate cantatas performed by highly acclaimed vocalists from opera houses across the globe: soprano Joélle Harvey, tenor Paul Appleby, and baritone John Moore. The program includes Bach's only works with Italian texts and the ever-charming “Coffee Cantata” (Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht). In this miniature comic opera, a father’s futile attempt to cure his daughter’s love of coffee turns into a playful satire on both parental authority and Europe’s growing obsession with the fashionable new drink.
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All-Bach Program
Non sa che sia dolore, BWV 209 (C. 1747)
Durchlauchtster Leopold, BWV 173.1* (1722)
Amore traditore, BWV 203* (1718-19)
Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht, BWV 211, “Coffee Cantata” (C. 1734)
Joélle Harvey, SOPRANO • Paul Appleby, TENOR • John Moore, BARITONE • Kenneth Weiss, HARPSICHORD • Ani Kavafian, Cho-Liang Lin, VIOLIN • Lawrence Dutton, VIOLA • Timothy Eddy, CELLO • Blake Hinson, DOUBLE BASS • Demarre McGill, Yoobin Son, FLUTE • Peter Kolkay, BASSOON
Friday Dec 12, 2025, 7:30 PM
Sunday Dec 14, 2025, 5:00 PM
Tuesday Dec 16, 2025, 7:30 PM
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center • Alice Tully Hall
THE BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS
The Chamber Music Society's hugely popular annual holiday presentation of the complete Brandenburg Concertos continues, 32 years and going strong, performed by CMS's intergenerational, international roster of stellar artists.
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Bach The Complete Brandenburg Concertos (1720)
No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048
No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046
No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047
No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050
No. 6 in B-flat major, BWV 1051
No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049
Mika Sasaki, HARPSICHORD • Francisco Fullana, Bella Hristova, VIOLIN • Daniel Phillips, VIOLIN/PICCOLO VIOLIN • Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, VIOLIN/VIOLA • Matthew Lipman, Paul Neubauer, VIOLA • Dmitri Atapine, Nicholas Canellakis, Sterling Elliott†, CELLO • Nina Bernat†, DOUBLE BASS • Sooyun Kim, Tara Helen O’Connor, FLUTE • Randall Ellis, James Austin Smith, Stephen Taylor, OBOE • Marc Goldberg, BASSOON • Stewart Rose, Tanner West, HORN • David Washburn, TRUMPET