====== Midori at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, March 24, 2013 ======
[[http://www.gotomidori.com/english/|Midori]]\\ 
performing Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, part 2\\ 
[[http://www.stmarks-sf.org/|St. Mark's Lutheran Church]]\\ 
[[http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1111+O'Farrell+Street,+San+Francisco,+CA&hl=en|1111 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco, CA]]\\ 
7:00 PM, Sunday, March 24, 2013\\ 

===== One Set =====

[7:07 PM, lights down, Introduction by Ruth Felt]

==== Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1003 (1720) ==== 
  * Grave
  * Fuga
  * Andante
  * Allegro
[work ends 7:35 PM]

[7:36 PM ready]
==== Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Partita No. 1 in B minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1002 (1720) ==== 
  * Allemande
  * //Double//: Presto
  * Corrente
  * //Double//
  * Sarabande
  * //Double//
  * Bourrée: Tempo di Borea
  * //Double//
[work ends 8:05 PM]

[8:06 PM ready]
==== Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Partita No. 3 in E Major for Solo Violin, BWV 1006 (1720) ==== 
  * Preludio
  * Loure
  * Gavotte en Rondeau
  * Menuet I
  * Menuet II
  * Bourrée
  * Gigue
[show ends 8:25 PM]


===== the Performers =====
  * Midori Goto: violin.

===== Notes =====
[[http://sfperformances.org/notes/MidoriNotes.pdf|Program Notes]] courtesy of SFPerformances.

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonatas_and_partitas_for_solo_violin|Wikipedia article about the program]]

The final show in SFPerformance's //Violin Virtuosi// series for this year; as with all the others, I attended with my mom, sitting in the same great center seats as last night. Between the slight change in the weather (a bit cooler today than yesterday) and a change of clothes (I opted for much lighter weight clothing tonight) there was no chance of drifting off to sleep mid concert tonight despite attending on a belly full of roast beef and a stiff pint of [[http://goodbeer.com/wordpress/big-daddy/|Speakeasy's Big Daddy IPA]] courtesy of [[http://www.tommysjoynt.com/|Tommy's Joynt]].

I thought that the most striking contrast in tonight's presentation compared with the [[2013-03-23_m_smlc|previous show]] was the starkly slower pacing of the initial Sonata and following Partita. Not that the //double// sections of the latter work were too slow -- //au contraire, mon frère// -- but that last night's entire show seemed to come off at an unrelentingly blistering pace that left my ears just a bit tired by the end. Such was not the case tonight; the slower beginning only served to prime my attention for the arpeggio runs of the closing Partita.

Stephen Smoliar offered up another grumpy review for [[http://www.examiner.com/article/midori-s-second-solo-bach-recital|the Examiner]]. Noticing him dash out before Midori took her final bows both nights leads me to think he should hardly be one to criticize her for issues of pacing!

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