GABRIEL SMALLWOOD, harpsichord

Juvenilia: Music by J. S. Bach

Making his San Diego debut, Gabriel Smallwood presents a program built as a conversation across generations: works by Bach set directly against the composers who formed him as a young musician—Dietrich Buxtehude, Georg Böhm, Christian Ritter, and Johann Adam Reincken. In Smallwood’s words, it’s “a dialogue between student and teacher,” an unusually vivid way to hear exactly what Bach absorbed, and what he transformed, on his way to becoming the towering figure we know today.