Rachel Barton Pine

Sun. 25 Feb. 2018

2: 30 PM // Benaroya Hall

Testament: Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin by J.S. Bach

Pre-Concert Talk
Dave Beck, Classical KING FM 98.1
1:30 PM // Nordstrom Recital Hall

Revel in Rachel Barton Pine’s incomparable mastery of J.S. Bach’s unaccompanied violin works. Fanfare calls her “One of the rare mainstream performers with a total grasp of Baroque style and embellishment”. Pine premiered with the Chicago Symphony at age 10 and has won countless accolades in both modern and baroque violin throughout her 30-year career. Read the program notes written by Pine. Experience Pine’s magnetic artistry and how it illuminates Bach’s sonatas and partitas, the pinnacle of the Baroque period.

Check out Rachel earlier in the week at the Resonance Masters’ Series in Bellevue and Film Screening in Columbia City.

“What Pine communicated was pure Bach, his pleasure in working out musical ideas, his architectural structures large and small and his reverence for both the struggle and the peace that music can offer.” -The Washington Post

Program

Length

2 hours 15 minutes with one intermission

All pieces on this program are by J.S. Bach

Sonata No. 1 in G minor BWV 1001
Partita No. 1 in B minor BWV 1002
Sonata No. 2 in A minor BWV 1003
Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV 1004
Sonata No. 3 in C major BWV 1005
Partita No. 3 in E major BWV 1006