Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

BENJAMIN HOCHMAN BAROQUE RECITAL

Description

Following appearances earlier in the season, pianist Benjamin Hochman returns with a rich recital program featuring works by two 16th-century Renaissance composers—the French-born Josquin des Prez and the English-born John Bull—two of Bach’s lively English Suites, and Oliver Knussen’s dreamlike Prayer Bell Sketch, a late-20th-century piece inspired by an intimate conversation Knussen had with his friend and fellow composer Toru Takemitsu.

DES PREZ/WUORINEN Ave Christe

BACH English Suite No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 807

BULL Fantasia, FVB 108

BULL Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, FVB 51

KNUSSEN Prayer Bell Sketch, Op. 29

BACH English Suite No. 5 in E Minor, BWV 810

Benjamin Hochman

Approximate length: 1 hour and 10 minutes

Festival artists and programming are subject to change.