Joseph Brent and Avi Avital with International Contemporary Ensemble

By Mandolin Cafe
February 28, 2009 - 6:15 pm

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New York, N.Y. — The Music Mondays chamber music series presents ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble) in a program of rarely performed transcriptions of Bach works by Joseph Brent, Avi Avital, György Kurtág, Daniel Lippel, and Sebastián Zubieta on March 23, 7:30 p.m.

The concert, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the beautiful, acoustically superb Advent Lutheran Church on the Upper West Side.

Program:

Eb Major Flute Sonata BWV 1031
(transcribed, Joseph Brent, mandolin and harp)

Aus tiefer Not schrei' ich zu dir, BWV 667
(transcribed György Kurtág for piano, four hands)

Suite for Cello, BWV 1010
(transcribed, Daniel Lippel for guitar)

Sonatina from "Gottes Zeit ist die Allerbeste Zeit" (Actus Tragicus), BWV 106
(transcribed György Kurtág for piano, four hands)

Invention No. 1 in C
(transcribed by Joseph Brent and Avi Avital, mandolins)

O Lamm Gottes Unschuldig, BWV 656
(transcribed György Kurtág for piano, four hands)

Woferne Du Den Edlen Frieden, from Cantata BWV 41
(transcribed, Sebastián Zubieta for two flutes, two clarinets, guitar, cello, organ and tenor)
Featuring Peter Tantsits, tenor

Additional information:
Joseph Brent
Avi Avital

Click red map pin for driving directions to Advent Lutheran Church and Broadway United Church of Christ, 504 Broadway at 93rd Street, New York, NY.