Plucked Bach - solo recital on mandolin, lute, baroque guitar & oud

Music from Bach’s solo works for violin, cello, flute and organ.

May be combined with music by Silvius Leopold Weiss, Georg Philipp Telemann and Carl Friedrich Abel.


La Mandolina Española (4-6 musicians on mandolin, lute, harpsichord, cello, harp (opt.) & percussion (opt.)

Music by Ortiz, Selma y Salaverde, Scarlatti, Boccherini, Tarrega, Sarasate, de Falla among others. 


w/ String Trio or String Quartet

Mandolin Quartets by Giovanni Francesco Giuliani (1760-1818) and Hans Gál (1890-1987)

Contemporary Mandolin Quintets by Clarice Assad (2012) Anders Koppel (2016) and Clark Nichols (2022) 


w/ String Orchestra

Raffaele Calace (1863-1934) - Mandolin Concerto no. 2 in A minor

Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909) - Capricho Árabe

Ernest Bloch (1880-1959) - Nigun & Prayer

Béla Bártok (1881-1945) Six Rumanian Folk Dances 

Gilad Hochman (*1982) - "Nedudim", a Fantasia Concertante (*dedicated to Alon Sariel)

As well as Baroque mandolin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi, Emanuele Barbella, Johann Adolf Hasse, Johann Sebastian Bach, Giovanni Paisiello and others (all requiring a harpsichord)


w/ Chamber Orchestra: 

Arrangements of music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn as well as Mandolin Concertos by Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Johannes Kauchlitz/Colizzi and Nimrod Borenstein (2023, dedicated to Alon Sariel)