Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Bach Cantatas tickets

No composer wrote more voluminously or skillfully for the voice than Johann Sebastian Bach, and this selection of chamber cantatas offers a gorgeous sampling of Bach’s vocal music, including his only cantatas in Italian. Caffeine dependency is not a recent trend, as shown in the satirical “Coffee Cantata,” in effect a short comic opera about a drink that was taking Europe by storm; the cantata, in which a father attempts to bribe his daughter to give up the tantalizing beverage, humorously mocks both the growing popularity of coffee and the feeling that the trendy drink was a bad habit.

Joélle Harvey: Soprano;
Paul Appleby: Tenor;
John Moore: Baritone;
Kenneth Weiss: Harpsichord;
Ani Kavafian & Cho-Liang Lin: Violin;
Lawrence Dutton: Viola;
Timothy Eddy: Cello;
Blake Hinson: Double Bass;
Demarre McGill & Yoobin Son: Flute;
Peter Kolkay: Bassoon