Ruckus with Emi Feruson, flute
Fly the Coop: Music of J.S. Bach

Sonata in C Major, BWV 1033
Sonata in E Minor, BWV 1034
Sonata in E Major, BWV 1035
Selected Preludes

Emi Ferguson, flute; Elliot Figg, harpsichord; Clay Zeller-Townson, bassoon; Arash Noori, lute; Doug Balliett, baroque bass and violone; Paul Holmes Morton, cello, banjo; Coleman Itzkoff, cello

Ruckus is a baroque ensemble with a fresh, visceral approach to early music, a “shapeshifting” band comprising some of today’s leading soloists of Baroque repertoire. Their collaboration with acclaimed English-American flutist Emi Ferguson is a joyous, kaleidoscopic romp through some of Bach’s most playful and transcendent works, with new arrangements of Bach’s Flute Sonatas and Keyboard Preludes that explode Bach’s bass lines into a rainbow of textures and colors, continually shifting like light over the landscape as Ferguson’s flute lines dance above.

“a fizzing, daring display of personality and imagination” — The New York Times

“panache, and the jubilant, virtuosic verve of a bebop-Baroque jam session” — Boston Musical Intelligencer