La Fiocco teams with Vocala Ensemble, a professional chamber choir based in northern New Jersey, for this concert of sacred and instrumental music by J. S. Bach (1685-1750) and some of his North German predecessors including David Pohle (1624-1685), Franz Tunder (1614-1667), Dietrich Becker (c. 1623-1679), Matthias Weckmann (c. 1616-1674), and Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637-1707). This is a rare opportunity to hear the exquisite music of the North German tradition, with Actus tragicus, also known as Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, still celebrated as one of Bach’s most moving cantatas with its haunting writing for vocal soloists, choir, recorders, violas da gamba, and organ.

LA FIOCCO

Claire Smith Bermingham & Mark Zaki, baroque violin
Nathan Bishop, baroque viola
Donna Fournier & Gretchen Geddes, viola da gamba
Owen Davitt, recorder
Cameron Khan & Ariana Krasniqi DuPont, organ & harpsichord
Lewis R. Baratz, artistic director, recorder, harpsichord

VOCALA ENSEMBLE
Martin Sedek, director
Michele Currenti & Veronica Shea, sopranos
Abigail W. Chapman, guest artist soprano soloist
Jamie Fey, Pam Stein Lynde, & Sophia Mortensen, altos
Benjamin T. Berman, tenor soloist
Joe Christiansen & Gregory Nappa, tenors
Dan Malloy, Sal Montero, Martin Sedek, bass