GREAT BARRINGTON — Members of The Sebastians baroque ensemble, as you may have guessed from the name, are into Johann Sebastian Bach. But they aren’t just into Bach; they adore Bach. Which explains why the unapologetically Bach-loving Close Encounters With Music and the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center are bringing the group into your home Saturday, April 3, at 7:30 p.m., for a virtual presentation accessible here. There is no cost for this streaming concert.
One look at The Sebastians in performance and you know something exciting is under way. These musicians couldn’t hide their enjoyment if they wanted to.
But not everyone who performs Bach’s music loves it this much. Some musicians are deadly serious about it, serving up rock-solid, if somewhat grim, performances at very high professional levels. Others, such as The Sebastians, take a less staid approach, and audiences have welcomed it. This has given the Sebastians a reputation for bringing out the fun in Baroque music. In fact, if you look at any of the press this group has received, you’re going to get the feeling they do it better than anyone else. They’ve been called New York’s “leading young early-music ensemble” by The New York Times.
All of J.S. Bach’s works are concise packages of exquisitely crafted joy, rendered in lavish detail and polished to perfection — like musical Fabergé eggs. And all of his works have a childlike quality, an innocence that sweetens even his saddest chorales.
The Sebastians program on April 3 will begin with one of Georg Philipp Telemann’s “Paris” quartets. This only makes sense, since J.S. Bach knew the more established Telemann personally and even bought the composer’s published works, which number in the thousands. Bach and Telemann were born only a few years apart.
Following Telemann are works by Antonio Vivaldi, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, George Frideric Handel, Nicola Porpora, and, of course, J.S. Bach — his Fifth Brandenburg Concerto, notable for solo harpsichord passages of such prominence that the piece has been called the first keyboard concerto ever written.
And lastly, CEWM artistic director Yehuda Hanani joins The Sebastians — Jeffrey Grossman, harpsichord; Daniel Lee and Nicholas DiEugenio, violins; Jessica Troy, viola; Nathaniel Chase, violone; and David Ross, traverso — in a performance of Vivaldi’s Sonata No. 5.
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