The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Little Match Girl Passion was composed by David Lang, inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen story, and influenced by Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. Aesop’s Fables, by Richard Maltz, offers important life lessons while describing the “world of childhood.”
This Paris-based chamber ensemble invokes an expressive style that intertwines musicians and vocalists in an intimate performance. Fuoco Obbligato’s repertoire spans from the Baroque era cantatas to 20th century folk song.
Childhood friends and Julliard classmates Erika Nickrenz (piano), Sara Parkins (violin), and Sara Sant’Ambrogio (cello) now grace classical music’s grandest stages with “an edge-of-the-seat intensity to every note they produce.” (New York Times)
Guest artist Daniel Adam Maltz, along with his pianoforte, re-creates the instrumental ensemble as Haydn configured it at the Esterhazy estate. A virtuosic musician and scholar of Viennese Classicism, Mr. Maltz will offer insight on the fortepiano, the pre-curser to the modern piano, while performing with the Bach Festival Chamber Choir, Orchestra, and vocal soloists.
