The Bach Players

Concert Diary 2013

Bach Players

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

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(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

To book tickets online go here

Saturday 5 October, 8.15 pm

St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU

To book tickets online go here

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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

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(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

See the archive of our concert diaries, 1997–1999, 2000–2006, 2007–2012
and also the archive pictures of musicians at some early concerts

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