The Bach Players
Concert Diary 2008
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 rehearsal at St John’s Downshire Hill, November 2007
For more about the players in our concerts:
Players 2007–2008
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
Haydn and Boccherini: folk tunes
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)
Sunday 22 June, 3.00 pm
Stour Music, All Saints’, Boughton Aluph (and see here)
Thursday 26 June
Hatchlands Park, Guildford
Monday 30 June, 8.00 pm
St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3
Bach arranging and arranged
CD recording
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)
Monday 23 to Wednesday 25 June
St Michael’s, Highgate, London N6
Every one a chaconne
J.S. Bach, Cantata ‘Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich’, BWV 150
Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, Instrumental suite
Henry Purcell, Trio Sonata in G minor / Dido’s 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)
Monday 24 November, 8.00 pm
St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3
CD recording
Tuesday 25 to Thursday 27 November
St Michael’s, Highgate, London N6