The 2023 Festival opens with a concert featuring the works of three composers of different eras but with a shared love for counterpoint: Johann Sebastian Bach, 19th-century German composer Felix Mendelssohn, and 20th century African-American composer Coleridge Taylor-Perkinson. The concert features ingenious and masterful works ranging from Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor and solo soprano cantata Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Glücke, BWV 84, to Perkinson's Movement for String Trio and Mendelssohn's youthful masterpiece, the String Octet in Eb major. Soloists Amir Farsi (flute) and Christine Gluck-Fairfield (soprano) come together with SVBF musicians in a conductor-less concert for an exciting opening to the season.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067

Amir Farsi, flute

Johann Sebastian Bach: Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Glücke, BWV 84

Christine Glick-Fairfield, soprano

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Lament for Viola and Piano

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Movement for String Trio

Felix Mendelssohn: String Octet in E-flat major, Op.20

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