Welcome to our 2022-2023 season
Concert Details
22
January
Overview
Raphael Wallfisch & John Butt
J.S. Bach – Prelude & Fugue in C from the Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2 BWV870
Carl Abel – Sonata for Viola da Gamba and continuo in E minor K.150
J.S. Bach – Cello Suite No.6 in D major BWV1012
J.S. Bach – Sonata for Viola da Gamba and keyboard in G major BWV1027
Vivaldi – Sonata for Cello and continuo in B-flat major RV.45
J.S. Bach – Sonata for Viola da Gamba and keyboard in G minor BWV1029
During the pandemic, when the performing life of musicians was essentially paralysed, Raphael Wallfisch commissioned a new 5-string cello (along the lines of the baroque ‘violoncello piccolo’) so he could use the time to better understand this unusual instrument, an archaic cousin of the modern cello. This allowed him to gain new insights, from the ‘inside’, of J.S. Bach’s famous sixth solo cello suite, written ‘a cinq cordes’, as Anna Magdalena Bach described it. The additional ‘E’ string lies a fifth above the A string, usually the highest on the cello. In this unique concert, Raphael is joined by famous Bach specialist John Butt at the harpsichord for two of Bach’s beautiful viola da gamba sonatas, together with the sixth solo suite. This remarkable music is placed in the context of other important influences; a gamba sonata by Carl Abel (it was Carl’s father who was the celebrated gamba performer at the court at Köthen), and a contemporary Italian cello sonata by Vivaldi. The whole concert is ‘preludised’ by a famous prelude and fugue for keyboard.
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6.00pm (please note time) Sunday, 22nd January 2023
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