The post Simone Dinnerstein And Baroklyn Go All Bach In New York City appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Simone Dinnerstein (in front of the piano) and Baroklyn at Kaufman Music Center’s Merkin Hall in New York City on Oct. 21, 2025. credit: David Chiu It was an evening of Johann Sebastian Bach when the acclaimed classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein recently performed with her large string ensemble, Baroklyn, at Kaufman Music Center’s Merkin Hall in New York City. The material drew from the players’ most recent collaborative album, Complicité, which translates from French as “togetherness,” and the title perfectly summed up the mood inside the hall from this past Tuesday. In her liner notes for Complicité, Dinnerstein — who is no stranger to interpreting Bach, having previously achieved recognition for her popular 2007 recording of the composer’s “Goldberg Variations” — wrote: “I’m very interested in irregularities within Bach’s music. There is so much variation in his writing, and each voice is saying something slightly different, yet all of the voices are speaking simultaneously. It is dense music to play and dense to hear.” “My biggest goal is to be able to communicate,” she continued, “and hear those different voices, through differentiation of timbre, agogic distortion of rhythms, ebb and flow of tempo, and emphasis on the moments of expressive intervallic leaps and harmonic dissonances that jump out from the page.” Dinnerstein certainly achieved that goal through her direction of Baroklyn from her grand piano during the Merkin Hall concert, as the players performed several Bach pieces from Complicité, beginning with “Herr Gott, nun schleuß den Himmel auf,” BWV 617, and through his “Keyboard Concerto in E Major,” BWV 1053, and “Der Leib war in der Erden,” from “Komm, du süße Todesstunde,” BWV 161. Those performances showcased both Dinnerstein’s dazzling piano work, which combined grace and virtuosic intensity, and the sublime playing of Baroklyn, which boasted 10-plus members on various… The post Simone Dinnerstein And Baroklyn Go All Bach In New York City appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Simone Dinnerstein (in front of the piano) and Baroklyn at Kaufman Music Center’s Merkin Hall in New York City on Oct. 21, 2025. credit: David Chiu It was an evening of Johann Sebastian Bach when the acclaimed classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein recently performed with her large string ensemble, Baroklyn, at Kaufman Music Center’s Merkin Hall in New York City. The material drew from the players’ most recent collaborative album, Complicité, which translates from French as “togetherness,” and the title perfectly summed up the mood inside the hall from this past Tuesday. In her liner notes for Complicité, Dinnerstein — who is no stranger to interpreting Bach, having previously achieved recognition for her popular 2007 recording of the composer’s “Goldberg Variations” — wrote: “I’m very interested in irregularities within Bach’s music. There is so much variation in his writing, and each voice is saying something slightly different, yet all of the voices are speaking simultaneously. It is dense music to play and dense to hear.” “My biggest goal is to be able to communicate,” she continued, “and hear those different voices, through differentiation of timbre, agogic distortion of rhythms, ebb and flow of tempo, and emphasis on the moments of expressive intervallic leaps and harmonic dissonances that jump out from the page.” Dinnerstein certainly achieved that goal through her direction of Baroklyn from her grand piano during the Merkin Hall concert, as the players performed several Bach pieces from Complicité, beginning with “Herr Gott, nun schleuß den Himmel auf,” BWV 617, and through his “Keyboard Concerto in E Major,” BWV 1053, and “Der Leib war in der Erden,” from “Komm, du süße Todesstunde,” BWV 161. Those performances showcased both Dinnerstein’s dazzling piano work, which combined grace and virtuosic intensity, and the sublime playing of Baroklyn, which boasted 10-plus members on various…