The Bach Players
Concert Diary 2013
Bach Players in concert at St John’s Downshire Hill, September 2012
For information about tickets for our London concerts, and how to get there: Concerts at St John’s Downshire Hill
For information about tickets for our Norwich concerts, and how to get there: Concerts at the Octagon Chapel
An Italian in Paris
A rich banquet of private music, with an Italian flavour, for Louis XIV
François Couperin (1668–1733), La Pucelle
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–87), Symphonie in E minor
Jean-Féry Rebel (1666–1747), Violin Sonata in E minor, no. 4
Jean-Baptiste Lully, Passacaille in A minor
Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (1665–1729), Sonata IV in C minor
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676–1749), Chaconne in D major
François Duval (1672–1728), Suite in G major
Angelo Michele Bartolotti (fl. 1640–80), Chaconne for guitar in C major
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704), Sonata in C major for eight instruments
(Marion Moonen flute, Rachel Beckett flute, Nicolette Moonen violin, Oliver Webber violin, Reiko Ichise viola da gamba, Kinga Gáborjáni basse de violon à 5 cordes, Lynda Sayce theorbo / guitar, Silas Wollston harpsichord)
Thursday 18 July, 7.30 pm
The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN
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Saturday 20 July, 8.15 pm
St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU
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CD recording
Monday 22 to Wednesday 24 July
St Michael’s, Highgate, London N6
Bach’s library
A selection of pieces that J.S. Bach had in his library and which provide a context for his celebrated Orchestral Suite in B minor
Johann Bernhard Bach (1676–1749), Ouverture no. 2 in G major
Marin Marais (1656–1728), movements from his opera Alcide arranged for harpsichord
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767), Paris Quartet no. 6 in E minor
Agostino Steffani (1654–1728), La tempête
Charles Dieupart (c.1667–c.1740), Suite no. 6 in F minor
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Orchestral suite no. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067
(Marion Moonen flute, Nicolette Moonen violin, Anna Curzon violin, Rachel Stott viola, Kinga Gáborjáni cello, Silas Wollston harpsichord)
Wednesday 11 September
Timisoara, Romania
Bach and his rivals [2]
Cantatas for the 4th Sunday after Epiphany, 30 January 1724
Christoph Graupner (1683–1760), Cantata ‘Gott führt die seinen wunderbar’
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767), Cantata ‘Brausende Stürme’, TWV 1:132
Georg Philipp Telemann, ‘Hamburger Ebb’ und Fluth’ (Water music suite), TWV 55:C3
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Cantata ‘Jesus schläft, was soll ich hoffen’, BWV 81
(Rachel Elliott soprano, Sally Bruce-Payne alto, Simon Wall tenor, Matthew Brook bass, James Eastaway oboe, Catherine Latham oboe/recorder, Rachel Beckett recorder, Nicolette Moonen violin, Anne Schumann violin, Rachel Stott viola, Olaf Reimers cello, Pawel Siwczak organ/harpsichord)
Thursday 3 October, 7.30 pm
The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN
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Saturday 5 October, 8.15 pm
St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU
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CD recording
Tuesday 8 to Thursday 10 October
St Michael’s, Highgate, London N6
Pour le souper du Roi
Music presented to King Louis XIV by his favourite composers
Robert de Visée (1655–1732), Prélude in G major
Robert de Visée, Trio
Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (1665–1729), Sonata in D minor
Marin Marais (1656–1728), Tableau de l’opération de la taille
Louis Couperin (c. 1626–61), Prélude non mesurée
Jean-Féry Rebel (1666–1747), Sonata in E minor
Sainte Colombe le fils (c. 1660–1720), Suite in A minor
Marin Marais, Sonnerie de Ste Geneviève du Mont de Paris
(Nicolette Moonen violin, Jonathan Manson viola da gamba, Lynda Sayce theorbo, Pawel Siwczak harpsichord)
Thursday 7 November
Handel House Museum, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB: more information here
Saturday 9 November
Georgian Concert Society, St Cecilia’s Hall, Cowgate, Edinburgh EH1 1NQ: more information here