The Bach Players

Concert Diary 2010

In 2007 The Bach Players started a new series of concerts in which we link Bach to other composers. The programmes are varied, with different threads going through them. Bach’s cantatas play an important part in these concerts, and we are playing the whole of the Art of Fugue in a number of instalments. In our chamber music concerts Haydn takes an important place: we are introducing some of his string quartets and will look at composers who may have influenced him.

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Bach Players in concert at St John’s Downshire Hill, November 2009

For information about tickets for our London concerts, and how to get there: Concerts at St John’s Downshire Hill

For an article about the new series, see here

The Seven Last Words

Joseph Haydn, The Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the Cross, with readings from poetry and prose

Bach
Players April 2010

(Rodolfo Richter & Rachel Isserlis violin, Nicolette Moonen viola, Kinga Gáborjáni cello; readers: Aude Gotto [Norwich] and James Eastaway [London])

Friday 9 April, 7.30 pm

The King of Hearts, Norwich

Saturday 10 April 2009, 7.30 pm

St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3

Italy vs France

The ‘battle of the styles’ in music by its protagonists: Corelli, Muffat, Lully, Rebel, Couperin

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Players July 2010

(Nicolette Moonen & Rodolfo Richter violin, Rachel Isserlis & Rachel Stott viola, Kinga Gáborjáni cello, Jakob Lindberg lute, Silas Standage harpsichord)

Wednesday 14 July, 7.30 pm

Hatchlands, Guildford

Thursday 15 July

York Early Music Festival

Friday 16 July, 7.30 pm

The King of Hearts, Norwich

Saturday 17 July, 7.30 pm

St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3

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CD recording

Tuesday 20 to Thursday 22 July

St Michael’s, Highgate, London N6

Pachelbel and Bach: canons and cantatas

Music by J.S. Bach and his predecessor Johann Pachelbel

(Rachel Elliott soprano, Sally Bruce-Payne alto, Nicholas Mulroy tenor, Matthew Brook bass, Nicolette Moonen & Rodolfo Richter violin, Rachel Isserlis & Rachel Stott viola, Alison McGillivray cello, Alastair Mitchell bassoon, Silas Standage organ)

Thursday 4 November, 7.30 pm

The King of Hearts, Norwich

Saturday 6 November, 7.30 pm

St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3

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CD recording

Monday 8 to Wednesday 10 November

St Michael’s, Highgate, London N6

See the archive of our concert diaries, 1997–1999, 2000–2006, 2007–
and also the archive pictures of musicians at some early concerts

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