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2024-05-02 07:15:00
Father Willis, European Union Chamber Orchestra, Goldberg Variations: King's Lynn Festival's Early Music Day
[…] 4th Brandenburg Concerto alongside music by Handel, Vivaldi, Corelli and Telemann. They are joined by recorder player, Tabea Debus, and she also stars in an early evening recital, Ear Worm, on Friday 19 July at All Saints’ Church, King's Lynn, together with Robin Bigwood. They perform their personal selection of Renaissance and Baroque works, their favourites being melodies you just cannot get out of your head. Then for the late-night concert, Masumi Yamamoto performs Bach's Goldberg Variations.The full King's Lynn Festival runs from 14 to 27 July 2024. Full details from the festival website.
2024-03-28 07:41:00
Steven DevineMusic@Malling's Bach + series presents five concerts on 26 and 27 April 2024 in historic venues in and around West Malling, Kent, including St.Mary’s Church, West Malling, Pilsdon Barn (part of the historic Malling Abbey) and All Saints’ Church, Tudeley with its unique set of Marc Chagall windows. The concerts all feature Bach's music with contemporary pieces alongside, some works specifically created as companion works.Chamber Domaine, conductor Thomas Kemp (artistic director of Music@Malling) perform Bach's Brandenburg Concertos III and VI alongside companion works by Deborah Pritchard and Stevie Wishart originally commissioned by Music@Malling in 2022 as part of Six Brandenburgs: Six Commissions. Richard Harwood, principal cello of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, performs Bach’s Cello Suites I-III alongside contemporary works by Deborah Pritchard, Stevie Wishart, John Woolrich and Judith Weir. Harpsichordist Steven Devine performs Bach's Goldberg Variations in All Saints’ Church, Tudeley.Running alongside the concerts are a series of workshops in […]
2024-03-22 19:38:39
PREVIEW | Composer/Pianist Paul Grabowsky Comes To Soundstreams’ Keyed Up! Festival 2024 In Toronto
We spoke to Australian composer and musician Paul Grabowsky about his work in Soundstreams Keyed Up! festival, inspired by Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-12 18:22:30
Celebrating Lutheran Master’s 339th Birthday
[…] Will Stackpole, the latter written especially for Rothfritz and inspired by the Bach/Hindemith pairing. Until recently, Bach on piano has not typically been a BBB feature, as Boston audiences typically prefer historically-informed performances on harpsichord or clavichord. Nevertheless, the Bach Birthday has featured piano performances in the last three years: in 2021 professor Noam Elkies played a transcription of the first Brandenburg concerto; in 2022 April Sun and Andrus Madsen performed Rheinberger’s transcription of the Goldberg Variations on two authentic 19th-century grand pianos; and last year Artem Belogurov performed Bach on a reconstruction of a Baroque piano. Such historically-informed performance of Bach on piano is becoming more in vogue, and the Bach Birthday is pleased to be a part of the movement towards a broader understanding of historical performance. This year, pianist Calvin Kotrba will continue the perform Bach’s French Suite No. 6 in E Major at 2:30pm upon First […]
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