Fri 4/1
Northeast Ohio audiences are very familiar with internationally known classical guitarist Jason Vieaux, who has taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he co-heads the guitar department, for more than 25 years. In that time, he’s performed many times at the Cleveland Classical Guitar Festival, as well as in concert halls around the world, from Korea to Argentina to Holland to China. He’s performed with more than 100 orchestras and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and co-founded the guitar department at the renowned Curtis Institute of Music. He’s also released more than a dozen albums, either solo or collaborative efforts.
His latest, Bach Volume 2: Works for Violin, is out on Cleveland-based Azica Records on April 1. It follows his 2009 album Bach Volume 1: Works for Lute, completing his Bach cycle with Partita No. 3 in E Major (which is both the Violin Partita No. 3 and Lute Suite No. 4); Sonata No. 3 in C Major; and Sonata No. 1 in G minor. The music was recorded in 2018 and 2019 at Goshen College.
“One of the great things about Bach’s music is that it’s always just there, for us to continually explore,” says Vieaux, reflecting on the gap since Volume 1. “His music doesn’t need anything. It is not only comforting and inspiring in its musical greatness, it’s humbling in how his notes, phrases, structures, compositional decisions, harmonic details, etc, are seemingly all-knowing (divine) and expressive (mortal) all at once, which is always a great respite in such a turbulent world.”
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