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Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.2 in F Major, BWV 1047
[No Tempo Indicated]
Andante
Allegro assai
MADELINE ADKINS, Leader and Violin
EMILY SKALA, Flute
KATHERINE NEEDLEMAN, Oboe
ANDREW BALIO, Trumpet
Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat Major, BWV 1051
Allegro
Adagio ma non troppo
Allegro
LISA STELTENPOHL, Leader and Viola
NOAH CHAVES, Viola
DARIUSZ SKORACZEWSKI, Cello
CHANG WOO LEE, Cello
Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050
Allegro
Affettuoso
Allegro
JONATHAN CARNEY, Leader and Violin
EMILY SKALA, Flute
Lura Johnson, Harpsichord
Jonathan
Carney
Concertmaster
Jonathan Carney is in
his 12th season with
the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra after
12 seasons in the same position with London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Mr. Carney has performed with many
of the world’s great conductors including
Maestri Haitink, Abbado, Solti, Tennstadt,
Maazel, Gergiev and Sawallisch. He has
made a number of recordings, including
concertos by Mozart, Vivaldi and Nielsen;
sonatas by Brahms, Beethoven and
Franck; and a disc of virtuoso works of
by Sarasate and Kreisler.
Mr. Carney is an avid music educator
and currently serves on the board of the
Baltimore School for the Arts, as well as
being the school’s artist-in-residence. He
is also the artistic director of the Maryland
Classic Youth Orchestra at Strathmore.
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The concert will end at approximately 10:15 p.m.
is also concertmaster of the Baltimore
Chamber Orchestra.
Ms. Adkins has served as guest concertmaster of the Hong Kong Philharmonic,
the Indianapolis and Oregon Symphonies,
and the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra
in Chicago. She’s won first prize in
numerous competitions, including the
Stulberg International String Competition,
the ASTA National Solo Competition
and the New England Conservatory Concerto Competition, as well as second
prize in the Irving Klein International
String Competition.
Ms. Adkins has been active in period
instrument performance since the age
of 11, and has been a member of the
Handel and Haydn Society, Boston
Baroque, Dallas Bach Society, and currently Pro Musica Rara. With the BSO,
Ms. Adkins has appeared as conductor
and soloist in several Baroque programs
of her own design.
Ms. Adkins performs on a 1763 Guadagnini graciously loaned by Marin Alsop.
Madeline Adkins last appeared as soloist
in Arvo Pärt’s Tabula Rasa in March 2013
with conductor Ignat Solzehnitsyn.
Jonathan Carney’s violin is a 1687
Stradivarius, the Mercur-Avery on which
he uses “Vision” strings by ThomastikInfeld. Mr. Carney’s string sponsor is
Connolly & Co., exclusive U.S. importer
of Thomastik-Infeld strings.
About the concert:
Jonathan Carney last appeared as
a leader and soloist with the BSO in
December 2013, performing Vivaldi’s
The Four Seasons and Piazzolla’s The
Four Seasons of Buenos Aires at the Music
Center at Strathmore.
Johann Sebastian Bach’s six Brandenburg
Concertos might still be languishing in obscurity, known only to Baroque specialists,
if it were not for the invention of the longplaying record. They were hardly noticed
in his own day, and there is no record that
the man for whom they were assembled—
the Margrave of Brandenburg, half-brother
of the King of Prussia— even had his
orchestra in Berlin play them. When
Mendelssohn promoted a revival of Bach’s
music in the early 19th century, he never got
around to the Brandenburgs, and so they
slumbered on until the mid-20th century.
Two Baroque works were the special
beneficiaries of a number of recordings in
Madeline
Adkins
Madeline Adkins
was appointed to the
position of associate
concertmaster of the BSO by Maestro
Yuri Temirkanov in 2005. She appears
annually as a soloist with the BSO, and
The Brandenburg Concertos
Johann Sebastian Bach
Born in Eisenach, Germany, March 21, 1685;
died in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, July 28, 1750