{"id":2446116,"date":"2019-07-08T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=309034"},"modified":"2019-07-08T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T04:00:00","slug":"harpsichordist-jory-vinikour-leads-complete-brandenburg-concertos-in-two-night-aspen-music-festival-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/harpsichordist-jory-vinikour-leads-complete-brandenburg-concertos-in-two-night-aspen-music-festival-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Harpsichordist Jory Vinikour leads complete Brandenburg Concertos in two-night Aspen Music Festival event"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Harpsichordist Jory Vinikour , photographed in his Lincoln Park apartment, in Chicago, on Saturday Mar. 1, 2015.<\/strong>
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In a two-night concert event, harpsichordist Jory Vinikour will lead a chamber orchestra through Bach\u2019s complete Brandenburg Concertos this week at Harris Concert Hall.<\/p>\n

The Chicago-bred Vinikour is among the world\u2019s leading harpsichordists. A Grammy nominee \u2014 the first harpsichordist nominated for the best solo classical record \u2014 his repertoire from the Baroque period of the Brandenburgs to contemporary works, like Frank Martin\u2019s \u201cPetite symphonie concertante,\u201d for which he\u2019s the featured soloist in a concert next week with the Aspen Chamber Symphony.<\/p>\n

Vinikour is filling in as a conductor of the Aspen Music Festival and School\u2019s much-anticipated Brandenburg recitals for his friend Nicholas McGegan, who dropped out last month.<\/p>\n

Vinikour will lead the concerts from his keyboard.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s different from the conductor on his or her podium telling everybody how this will sound,\u201d he said. \u201cI express it through the keyboard as much as through gesture.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see myself as a sort of first among equals, I feel certain that we\u2019ll have a general consensus about how these pieces will go.\u201d<\/p>\n

The series is aimed at classical neophytes as much as Aspen\u2019s Bach buffs, with Vinikour\u2019s simple intention \u201cto make the music as fresh as when it was written\u201d with Bach\u2019s groundbreaking combinations of instruments.<\/p>\n

Virtually no piece of contemporary music can escape the Brandenburgs\u2019 influence, he argues: \u201cThe influence of Bach\u2019s novel orchestral colors is just about everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

So Vinikour isn\u2019t stretching to impose a new reading on these well-known, well-loved and definitive Baroque compositions. He\u2019s eschewing the novelty of using period instruments or historical techniques, instead aiming to lead a world-class chamber orchestra through some of the world\u2019s greatest music more than three centuries after Bach wrote it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not trying to impose a stamp of my own at the cost of the music\u2019s integrity,\u201d he said. \u201cI do see performances of Baroque music where I feel the conductor and performers are so eager to be seen that the music is no longer heard as it is intended. I\u2019m looking for great quality playing and I\u2019m convinced my colleagues want to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wednesday night\u2019s program will include Brandenburg Concerto Nos. 1, 3 and 4 along with Bach\u2019s Concerto for Three Violins in D major; Thursday\u2019s will feature 5, 6 and 2, closing with Vivaldi\u2019s Concerto for Four Violins in B minor.<\/p>\n

Although he has a busy summer season ahead \u2014 including Bach\u2019s complete Goldberg Variations at Ravinia \u2014 Vinikour\u2019s preparation for the Brandenburg recitals has been all-consuming.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have the Brandenburgs in my head and fingers day and night,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Harpsichordist Jory Vinikour , photographed in his Lincoln Park apartment, in Chicago, on Saturday Mar. 1, 2015.Chicago Tribune | Chicago Tribune In a two-night concert event, harpsichordist Jory Vinikour will lead a chamber orchestra through Bach\u2019s complete Brandenburg Concertos this week at Harris Concert Hall. The Chicago-bred Vinikour is among the world\u2019s leading harpsichordists. A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 01:47:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}