Pianist Simone Dinnerstein releases her first album with the string ensemble she founded and directs, Baroklyn (a portmanteau of Baroque and Brooklyn), and featuring the music of J.S. Bach and Philip Lasser. The program features new arrangements of chorale settings for piano and strings, the Keyboard Concerto in E major, BWV 1053, and Cantata 170, Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust with mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano.

The album concludes with Lasser’s In the Air, a recomposition of Air on the G String. Dinnerstein writes, “I asked Philip Lasser if he might write a continuo realization for me of the Air on the G String, but as an independent piece of music, like a jazz improvisation, that would happen simultaneously with the performance of the original air by the strings. What Philip wrote is truly a striking composition on its own, and it acts as a lens through which we see Bach’s music in a new light. This composition feels like a new medium – one piece of music inside another.”