CONCORA & Baroklyn, featuring Simone Dinnerstein

BACHtoberfest 2025
Tickets go on sale June 23, 2025

Fresh off the release of their first professional recording, Simone Dinnerstein’s chamber ensemble Baroklyn joins Connecticut-based professional choir CONCORA in a program of two cantatas, Es ist das Heil uns kommen her (BWV9), and Himmelskönig, sei willkommen (BWV182). 

Dinnerstein leads from the keyboard providing a rare opportunity to hear the piano as a continuo instrument, just as Mendelssohn did in his own performances of Bach’s choral works. The evening features Dinnerstein’s performance of Bach’s Concerto in E Major (BWV1053) with Baroklyn, as well as a number of arrangements of chorale-preludes included in their debut recording.

The first of these cantatas (BWV 9) was used for Lutheran teachings, centering around salvation; “Salvation now has come for all” became a theme amongst authors and composers. In BWV 182, listeners hear structural diversity within the work: canonic material in the chorus (à la Pachelbel), rich instrumental writing in the overture, the division of instrumental sections interacting with voice.