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