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