Concert 4
The Queen Of Instruments

April 27, 2007 (tickets) / Rochester / Zumbro / 7:30 pm
April 28, 2007 (tickets) / St. Paul / Sundin / 8 pm

We close the season with some rarely heard works for harpsichord and orchestra from 18th-century Germany.

Featured Performer
Jacques Ogg, harpsichord
Besides his work as Lyra's Artistic Director, harpsichordist and fortepianist Jacques Ogg performs and tours worldwide in solo recitals ... Read more >

Johann Christoph Fr. Bach: Sinfonia in d-minor
Christoph Graupner: Concerto in e-minor for 2 flutes and orchestra.

Johann Christian Bach: Concerto in f-minor for harpsichord and strings (Berlin, 1754).

Johann Gottfried Müthel: Concerto in B-flat-major.

Lyra's own virtuoso, Jacques Ogg is the soloist in a concerto by J.S. Bach's youngest son, Johann Christian, and by his last student, Johann Gottfried Müthel. The latter is all but unknown nowadays, except for the fact that he was the first person to use the term "fortepiano" in print, but in his own time won the respect of such figures as Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Charles Burney. Opening the program is a sinfonia by the unaccountably neglected Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (Sebastian's second son), a productive and innovative composer who was regarded by his brother Wilhelm Friedemann as the best player in the family.

Presented in collaboration with the Schubert Club and the Midwestern Historical Keyboard Society.