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. Bachs 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.

Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Balleto à 4 Fechtschule in G major
Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in C major, op. 54, no. 2
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, 2 Sonatas from Fidicinium sacro-profanum
Luigi Boccherini, Guitar Quintet in C major, G. 453 La Ritirata di Madrid
Luigi Boccherini, Guitar Quintet in D major, G. 448 Fandango

(Rodolfo Richter & Nicolette Moonen violin, Huw Daniel viola, Alison McGillivray cello, William Carter guitar)
Stour Music, All Saints, Boughton Aluph (and see here)
Hatchlands Park, Guildford
St Johns Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Stabat Mater in F minor for soprano, alto, strings and basso continuo; arranged by J.S. Bach on the text of Psalm 51: Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden, BWV 1083
J.S. Bach, Five fugues from the Well-tempered Clavier; arranged for string quartet by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(Rachel Elliott soprano, Sally Bruce-Payne alto, Nicolette Moonen, Rodolfo Richter & Huw Daniel violin/viola, Alison McGillivray cello, Elizabeth Bradley double bass, Pawel Siwczak organ)
St Michaels, Highgate, London N6
J.S. Bach, Cantata Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150
Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, Instrumental suite
Henry Purcell, Trio Sonata in G minor / Didos lament / Chacony in G minor
Cantata Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78
(Nicolette Moonen, Rodolfo Richter & Anne Schumann violin/viola, Alison McGillivray cello, Marion Moonen flute, James Eastaway oboe, Silas Standage organ; others to be confirmed)
St Johns Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3
St Michaels, Highgate, London N6