Gresham Street, London EC2V 7BX
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St Anne's Lutheran Church
Gresham Street, London EC2V 7BX |
Bach Festival 2003
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History of St Anne's |
The Lecosaldi Ensemble rehearse the Matthew Passion on Sunday 13 April 2003 Monday 21 – Monday 28 July at 13.10 1. Monday 21 July: Brandenburg Concertos, Nos. 2, 4, & 6. 2. Wednesday 23 July: J S Bach: Trio Sonatas in E minor & C major; Die Kunst der Fuge: I, III; Sonata for Violin. C P E Bach: Sonata for Oboe 3. Thursday 25 July at 13.00 Richard Townend presents Chorales from the Orgelbűchlein, with the Lothbury Singers, at St Margaret’s Lothbury 4. Friday 25 July: Vivaldi: Concertos for 1, 2 & 4 violins from Op 3 “L’estro harmonico” transcribed by Bach for Keyboard 5. Monday 28 July: Brandenburg Concertos Nos, 1, 5, and No3 (the 1st movement of which will be performed according to a rescoring by Bach. Concert tickets £4 (£3 for St Anne’s Music Society members) Season ticket £14 (£10 for SAMS members) Sunday 27 July at 19.00 Festival Mass: Missa Brevis in A, BWV 234. Trio Sonata for two flutes in G, BWV 1039. Sanctus in D, BWV 238. Buxtehude: Motet. Preacher: the Rev'd Jeremy Crossley, St Margaret Lothbury. The annual Bach Festival, one of St Anne’s most important musical traditions, will take place again this year, from Monday 21 July to Monday 28 July. It is the eighth time that this popular musical event, which is the culmination of a year’s musical activities at St Anne’s, puts the spotlight, for a full eight days, on the great Lutheran composer. There will be a total of four concerts and a Festival Mass at St Anne’s, and a concert at the nearby church of St Margaret’s Lothbury. This year the programme will include all six Brandenburg concertos. They will be performed by St Anne’s own instrumentalists, The Lecosaldi Ensemble , directed by Peter Lea-Cox., on Monday 21 July (nos 4,6,2) and Monday 28 July (nos 1,5,3). The Lecosaldi Baroque Ensemble gives us trio and solo sonatas by Bach and his son Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-88), and two movements of the Kunst der Fuge.on Wednesday 23 July. On Friday 25 July the Lecosaldi Ensemble plays Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos for one, two and four violins from op.3, his Estro Armonico (Harmonic Rapture). The link with Bach, Vivaldi’s almost exact contemporary, is that Bach transcribed these concertos for keyboard. Sunday 27 July sees the performance of the Missa Brevis in A, a trio sonata for two flutes and continuo, and a motet by Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707), an important influence on Bach, who so impressed him that as a young man in 1705 he walked the considerable distance from Arnstadt, where he worked, to Luebeck in order to attend Buxtehude’s Abendmusiken (Advent concerts).Not directly part of the Festival but closely linked to it is a concert at St Margaret’s Lothbury on Thursday 24 July. This features chorales from Bach’s Orgelbüchlein performed by Richard Townend and the Lothbury Singers, who performed at St Anne’s in last year’s Bach Festival.It is hoped that the event will attract not only the many devoted listeners who regularly attend concerts at St Anne’s, but also those with a specific interest in all-Bach programmes. Of particular interest to all will be the first movement of the Third Brandenburg Concerto, performed according to a rescoring by Bach himself. Tickets for the Festival will be available by post from St Anne’s or at the door, and cost £4 per concert (£3 to members of St Anne’s Music Society) or £14 for the whole series (£10 for members). Diana B. Tyson
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