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Out of Conflict…the Peace
London Bach Society's 28th Bachfest, artistic director Margaret Steinitz, takes places 31 October - 6 November 2018 at St George's Church, Hanover Square, the Gresham Centre, and St John's Smith Square. The resident ensemble at the festival is the Steinitz Bach Players, an ensemble celebrating its 50th anniversary having been founded in 1968 by Paul Steinitz. The Steinitz Bach Players will be performing Bach's Musikalisches Opfer/Musical Offering directed by violinist Rodolfo Richter, and a programme which includes cantatas BWV 60 and BWV 151, Double Violin Concerto and Brandenburg Concerto No 1, with soloists Rowan Pierce, Anna Harvey, Nick Pritchard, Benjamin Bevan, Rachel Beckett (flute), Anthony Robson (oboe d’amore), Ursula Paludan Monberg (horn), Jane Gordon (violin).Viola da gamba/cello player Peter Wispelwey and harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani will make their debut as a duo at the festival performing Bach's sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord. The festival emerging artists series includes concerts from […]
2013-03-14 17:33:49
My friend and colleague John Railton, who has died aged 83, was an extraordinary musician, composer, conductor and teacher. He wanted musicians to perform beyond their comfort zones, believed profoundly in everyone's ability and engaged with individuals, groups and communities throughout Britain and overseas, particularly enjoying working with young musicians.He was born in Streatham, south London, and educated at Battersea grammar school and Cranleigh school, Surrey. He studied organ and piano at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1947 he joined the London Bach Society and for many years assisted Paul Steinitz, its founder, as rehearsal pianist and assistant conductor. He took a teaching post at Ealing grammar school, where his choirs became much in demand by the BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra; they performed music outside the normal scope of secondary schools with conductors such as Charles Mackerras, Antal Doráti, Colin Davis, Constantin Silvestri and Pierre Boulez.In his mid-30s he […]
2012-05-22 18:35:28
[…] was Bryan Kelly's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, using Latin American dance rhythms. William Walton, Lennox Berkeley, Herbert Howells and the American William Albright also wrote works for John's choir. When the curtain first rose at the Chichester Festival theatre in 1962, John was its music adviser.He loved working and touring with orchestras of all sizes, including the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. It was on a three-week tour of the US with the London Bach Society back in the early 70s that he and I really got to know each other.His association of nearly 40 years with the Royal College of Music, where he was a professor (1959-97); his time with the Royal College of Organists, where he was a member of council (1964-2003); and the pioneering work he did at the new University of Sussex, where he was university organist (1967-94) and visiting lecturer in music (1971-83), […]
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