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Bach and Friends: Suites and Concertos
January 26 (7.30pm)
Cheltenham - Pittville Pump Room
This concert is part of the Cheltenham
series. Book for April 27 concert and get 20% off both
concerts.
Tickets: £17; £14; £11
from:
Town Hall Box Office
Imperial Square
Cheltenham GL50 1QA
t: 0844 576 2210
e: boxoffice@cheltenham.gov.uk
January 27
(7.45pm)
Bristol - St George’s Brandon Hill
Tickets: £19 (£17); £17
(£15);
£15 (£13); £11 (£9)
from:
t: 0845 4024 001
Cavalry Fanfare
Concerto a tre chori in D major
Tafelmusik (3ème Production) Suite
in B flat
Suite in D
Concerto for two violins in A minor (Op.
3/8)
Suite no. 3 in D (BWV 1068)
Zelenka
Stölzel
Telemann
Böhm
Vivaldi
Bach
About the music
Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel was
highly regarded by Bach - the song ‘Bist du bei mir’
was copied into Anna Magdalena’s music book, and Wilhelm
Friedmann studied his suite in G minor. Stölzel’s
cantatas and oratorios are becoming more well known, but his
instrumental music is still unjustly neglected. His extravagant
Concerto pits choirs of trumpets, oboes and strings against
eachother in vibrant, evenergetic music.
Telemann needs
no introduction; but his Tafelmusik suite in B flat surely
ranks as some of the most charming music he wrote. Characterful
dances are mixed with descriptive movements - such as Bergeries
and Postillons - in this multi-faceted suite scored for oboes
and strings.
Georg Böhm was probably Bach’s teacher when he
spent two years in Lüneburg as a teenager. The two
composers kept in touch, and like Stölzel’s, Böhm’s
music was played in the Bach household. The suite in D has come
down to us as harpsichord music but was probably an arrangement
of an orchestral piece.
Vivaldi’s
A minor concerto was also highly prized by Bach - so much so
that he arrangeed it for organ. And we conclude with the
familiar Third Orchestral Suite, reuniting all three choirs of
instruments.
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