Performance

Work(s) by Jean-Baptiste Barrière

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At Alice Tully Hall, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center frames an evening around chamber works by Jean-Baptiste Barrière, heard alongside music by Boccherini and D’Ambrosio. Barrière was an 18th-century French cellist-composer whose writing treats the cello as a speaking voice, not just a bass line. In New York, his music surfaces less often than his better-known contemporaries, so each performance carries the feel of quiet repertoire recovery rather than a fixed tradition. The lines are lean, formal, and built to show how virtuosity can serve structure.