Nicolas Altstaedt, Cello Thomas Dunford, Lute | Nov 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM

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Nicolas Altstaedt, Cello
Thomas Dunford, Lute

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 7:30 PM Weill Recital Hall

Nicolas Altstaedt by Marco Borggreve, Thomas Dunford by Julien Benhamou

Discover an acclaimed partnership between two of early music’s leading artists, Nicolas Altstaedt and Thomas Dunford. Together, they perform two of J. S. Bach’s quintessential solo cello suites (including an original transcription for lute), selected pièces de viole by French Baroque composers Marais and Antoine Forqueray, Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel, and more. The well-known thrills of Bach’s cello suites—and the exacting nature of the pièces de viole (Marais’s pieces, in particular, are known for their detailed technical instructions)—offer a powerful contrast to Pärt’s deceptively sparse and revealing masterwork.

Part of: Early Music in Weill Recital Hall and Arvo Pärt

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Performers

Nicolas Altstaedt, Cello
Thomas Dunford, Lute

Program

MARAIS "La Rêveuse" from Pièces de viole, Book IV, No. 82

A. FORQUERAY "La Leclair" from Pièces de viole

J. S. BACH Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major (arr. Thomas Dunford)

MARAIS "Fêtes Champêtres" from Pièces de viole, Book IV, No. 61

MARAIS "Le Badinage" from Pièces de viole, Book IV, No. 87

MARAIS "Couplets de folies" from Pièces de viole, Book II, No. 20

J. S. BACH Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor

ARVO PÄRT Spiegel im Spiegel (transcr. Thomas Dunford)

DUPARC Lento from Cello Sonata in A Minor

A. FORQUERAY "La Buisson" from Pièces de viole

MARAIS "Les voix humaines" from Pièces de viole, Book II, No. 63

MARAIS "Grande Ballet" from Pièces de viole, Book III, No. 13

MARAIS "Le Tourbillon" from Pièces de viole, Book IV, No. 64

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