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.
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
Canons and cantatas: Pachelbel and Bach
When Bach was a young boy, in Erfurt, Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706) was organist there at the Predigerkirche, and he taught Bach’s elder brother Johann Christoph. Later Bach copied some of Pachelbel’s music secretly at his brother’s house. We play ‘Christ lag in Todesbanden’ by both composers. Bach wrote his cantata probably in 1707/8, not long after Pachelbel’s death, and Pachelbel’s influence on Bach’s writing here is very clear. We also perform Pachelbel’s famous Canon and Gigue, and some of his string music. Alongside this we put Bach’s lesser known canons from the Goldberg Variations and the cantata ‘Widerstehe doch der Sünde’ for solo alto, strings, and basso continuo.
— Johann Pachelbel:
Canon and gigue in D major
Partie in F sharp minor
Cantata, ‘Christ lag in Todesbanden’
— J.S. Bach:
Cantata ‘Widerstehe doch der Sünde’, BWV 54
Canons from the Goldberg Variations, BWV 1087
Cantata ‘Christ lag in Todesbanden’, BWV 4
(Rachel Elliott soprano, Sally Bruce-Payne alto, Samuel Boden tenor, Matthew Brook bass, Nicolette Moonen, Rachel Isserlis & Stephen Pedder violin, Bethan Morgan violin/viola, Rachel Stott viola, Alison McGillivray cello, Alastair Mitchell bassoon, Silas Wollston organ)
Thursday 4 November, 7.30 pm
The King of Hearts, United Reformed Church, Princes Street, Norwich NR3 1AZ
Tickets for the concert can be bought online here
Saturday 6 November, 8.10 pm
St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU
Tickets for the concert can be bought online here
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CD recording
Monday 8 to Wednesday 10 November
St Michael’s, Highgate, London N6
Concert Diary 2011
Italy versus France
Lully, Corelli, Muffat, and the styles reunited
Jean Baptiste Lully, Ouverture and chaconne from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Jean Henry d’Anglebert, Tombeau de M. de Chambonnières
Jean Fery Rebel, Tombeau de M. de Lully
Robert de Visée, Prelude and musette
Georg Muffat, Blanditiae from Florilegium secundum
Arcangelo Corelli, Trio sonata, op.2, no.12
Bernardo Pasquini, Toccata
François Couperin, Apothéose de Corelli
Georg Muffat, Armonico tributo: Sonata II
(Nicolette Moonen & Rachel Isserlis violin, Foskien Kooistra & Rachel Stott viola, Alison McGillivray basse de violon / viola da gamba, Jakob Lindberg theorbo, Silas Standage harpsichord)
Saturday 19 February, 7.45 pm
Georgian Concert Society, St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh
Canons and cantatas: Pachelbel and Bach
Music by J.S. Bach and his predecessor Johann Pachelbel
(Sally Bruce-Payne alto, Nicolette Moonen & Rachel Isserlis violin, Foskien Kooistra & Rachel Stott viola, Alison McGillivray basse de violon / viola da gamba, Silas Standage harpsichord)
Tuesday 22 February, 7.30 pm
Leamington Music, St Mary’s Church, Warwick
Italy versus France
Lully, Corelli, Muffat, and the styles reunited
Jean Baptiste Lully, Ouverture and chaconne from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Jean Henry d’Anglebert, Tombeau de M. de Chambonnières
Jean Fery Rebel, Tombeau de M. de Lully
Robert de Visée, Prelude and musette
Georg Muffat, Blanditiae from Florilegium secundum
Arcangelo Corelli, Trio sonata, op.2, no.12
Bernardo Pasquini, Toccata
François Couperin, Apothéose de Corelli
Georg Muffat, Armonico tributo: Sonata II
(Nicolette Moonen & Rachel Isserlis violin, Foskien Kooistra & Rachel Stott viola, Alison McGillivray basse de violon / viola da gamba, Jakob Lindberg theorbo, Silas Standage harpsichord)
Wednesday 23 February
Brighton College, Eastern Road, Brighton BN2 0AL
Salve Regina
In praise of the Virgin Mary: Pergolesi’s setting of the Salve Regina, and music by Biber, Mayr, Corelli, and others
(Sally Bruce-Payne alto, Nicolette Moonen & Rachel Isserlis violin, Anne Schumann viola, Alison McGillivray cello, Silas Standage harpsichord)
Friday 4 March
Norwich, tbc
Saturday 5 March
St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU
La Grande France
The French presence in seventeenth-century England, with music by Lully, Locke, Purcell, and others
(Rachel Elliott soprano, Nicolette Moonen & Rachel Isserlis violin, Anne Schumann viola, Alison McGillivray cello, Silas Wollston harpsichord)
Friday 1 July
Norwich, tbc
Saturday 2 July
St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU