Olympic Music Festival Opening Celebration: Bach’s Goldberg Variations

Ludwig van Beethoven — String Trio No. 5 in C minor, Op. 9, No. 3
Johan Halvorsen / George Frideric Handel — Passacaglia for Violin and Viola
Johann Sebastian Bach — Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
George Frideric Handel — Selected works

Steven Copes, violin
Dimitri Murrath, viola
Jennifer Culp, cello

Handel – Passacaglia in G minor for Violin and Viola, HWV 432 (arr. Halverson)
Beethoven – String Trio in C minor, Op. 9 No. 3
Bach – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (arr. Dmitry Sitkovetsky)

Celebrate the beginning of the Olympic Music Festival’s 2018 season with Bach’s monumental Goldberg Variations. Although originally written for keyboard, this extraordinary arrangement by Russian violinist Dimitry Sitkovetsky illuminates the choral-like nature of Bach’s masterpiece and has become a standard part of the chamber music literature. Violinist Steven Copes, concertmaster of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, makes his debut.

Doors open at 1:30pm, Concert begins at 2:00pm.

About Jennifer Culp

https://www.sfcm.edu/faculty/culp

About Olympic Music Festival

http://www.olympicmusicfestival.org

About Steven Copes

https://www.stevencopes.com/

About Dimitri Murrath

https://www.dimitrimurrath.net/