liner notes<\/a> for Complicit\u00e9, Dinnerstein \u2014 who is no stranger to interpreting Bach, having previously achieved recognition for her popular 2007 recording of the composer\u2019s \u201cGoldberg Variations\u201d \u2014 wrote: \u201cI\u2019m very interested in irregularities within Bach\u2019s music. There is so much variation in his writing, and each voice is saying something slightly different, yet all of the voices are speaking simultaneously. It is dense music to play and dense to hear.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cMy biggest goal is to be able to communicate,\u201d she continued, \u201cand hear those different voices, through differentiation of timbre, agogic distortion of rhythms, ebb and flow of tempo, and emphasis on the moments of expressive intervallic leaps and harmonic dissonances that jump out from the page.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dinnerstein certainly achieved that goal through her direction of Baroklyn from her grand piano during the Merkin Hall concert, as the players performed several Bach pieces from Complicit\u00e9, beginning with \u201cHerr Gott, nun schleu\u00df den Himmel auf,\u201d BWV 617, and through his \u201cKeyboard Concerto in E Major,\u201d BWV 1053, and \u201cDer Leib war in der Erden,\u201d from \u201cKomm, du s\u00fc\u00dfe Todesstunde,\u201d BWV 161. Those performances showcased both Dinnerstein\u2019s dazzling piano work, which combined grace and virtuosic intensity, and the sublime playing of Baroklyn, which boasted 10-plus members on various string instruments. <\/p>\n
The second half of the program was dominated by the players\u2019 interpretation of Bach\u2019s
\u201cVergn\u00fcgte Ruh, beleibte Seelenlust,” BWV 170, accompanied by mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano (who also appeared on Complicit\u00e9) and oboist Katherine Needleman. The piece \u201cIn the Air,\u201d written by the composer Philipp Lasser and drawn from the \u201cAir on the G String\u201d from Bach\u2019s Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, brought the night and adulation from the audience inside the hall.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a plan, but are open to the moment,\u201d Dinnerstein explained in her notes in complicite. \u201cThis way of making music is dependent upon listening, openness to change, and trust. It results in a feeling of togetherness.\u201d The intimacy and vibrancy of last Tuesday\u2019s concert conveyed a sense of unity between Dinnerstein and Brooklyn, as well as between the performers and the audience. <\/p>\n
Simone Dinnerstein and Baroklyn with Jennifer Johnson Cano (standing fourth from the left, stage left) and Katherine Needleman (standing second from the left, stage left) at Kaufman Music Center’s Merkin Hall in New York City on Oct. 21, 2025.<\/p>\n
credit: David Chiu<\/p>\n
Setlist: <\/p>\n
Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. by Simone Dinnerstein and Baroklyn): \u201cHerr Gott, nun schleu\u00df den Himmel auf,\u201d BWV 617<\/p>\n
Johann Sebastian Bach: \u201cKeyboard Concerto in E Major,\u201d BWV 1053<\/p>\n
AllegroSicilianoAllegro<\/p>\n
Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. by Simone Dinnerstein and Baroklyn): \u201cDer Leib war in der Erden, from Komm, du s\u00fc\u00dfe Todesstunde,\u201d BWV 161 <\/p>\n
Johann Sebastian Bach: \u201cVergn\u00fcgte Ruh, beleibte Seelenlust,\u201d BWV 170<\/p>\n
Vergn\u00fcgte Ruh, beleibte SeelenlustDie Welt, Das SundenhausWie jammern mich doch die verkehrten HerzenWer sollte sich demnach work hierMir ekelt, mehr zu leben<\/p>\n
Johann Sebastian Bach\/Philip Lasser: \u201cIn the Air\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Simone Dinnerstein (in front of the piano) and Baroklyn at Kaufman Music Center’s Merkin Hall in New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11733,2947,221,11734,9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-16530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-baroklyn","9":"tag-classical-music","10":"tag-concert","11":"tag-johann-sebastian-bach","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-city-news","16":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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