Joseph Gascho, guest harpsichord recital

Free Admission.

Harpsichordist Joseph Gascho enjoys a multifaceted musical career as a keyboard artist, conductor, teacher and producer.  In 2002, he won first prize in the Jurow International Harpsichord Competition.  His most recent recording, Españoletas, featuring Harmonious Blacksmith and percussionist Glen Velez, will be released this summer. Recent performing highlights include concerts with the National Symphony at Carnegie Hall, the Mark Morris Dance Group and the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra, and conducting Idomeneo for the Maryland Opera Studio.  A graduate of the Peabody Institute and the University of Maryland, he taught harpsichord and chamber music at George Washington University before accepting his most recent post at the University of Michigan.  He continues to also teach basso continuo and conduct the student orchestra at Oberlin Conservatory’s Baroque Performance Institute.

 

 

PROGRAM

Toccata in G major, BuxWV 165                                        Dietrich Buxtehude
Suite in G major, BuxWV 240                                            (1637-1707)

            Allemande
            Courante
            Sarabande
            Gigue

 

Cello Suite in G major                                                         Johann Sebastian Bach
            Prelude                                                                      (1685-1750)
            Allemande                                                                transcribed J. Gascho
            Courante
            Sarabande
            Menuets
            Gigue

Sonata in C minor, Wq. 48/4                                              Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach           
            Allegro                                                                       (1714-1788)
            Adagio
            Presto

INTERMISSION

Sonata in A Minor after Reincken, BWV 965                   J.S. Bach

Suite in A minor, BuxWV 244                                            Buxtehude

            Allemande
            Courante
            Sarabande
            Gigue

        

Twelve Variations über die Folie d'Espagne, Wq. 118/9           C.P.E. Bach