Bach Weekend: The Oxford Bach Soloists Brandenburg 300 and Libby Burgess Project 48

Saturday 2nd Oct and Sunday 3rd October

Time 7.30pm and 2.30pm

Just over 300 years ago, Johann Sebastian Bach presented a set of six concertos to Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg.  They are supernaturally dazzling in richness and variety, deliberately virtuosic in scope, and display an emphasis on many diverse instruments rather than a collection of solos. They have become some of the best known and most loved classical compositions.

The concert by the hugely well-regarded Oxford Bach Soloists  under the direction of the inspirational Tom Hammond Davies is the first outing of this Brandenburg 300 series, and features some of the greatest music ever written, including the Brandenburg Concerto No 2  in its original chamber version for horn rather than trumpet.

Please note that this concert lasts 75 minutes and there will be NO INTERVAL

And in case you can’t get enough Bach, the following afternoon for about an hour, pianist Libby Burgess will perform the first Wiltshire leg of her mammoth fundraising series Project 48 – all 48 Preludes and Fugues from Bach’s Well Tempered Klavier in each of the 48 counties of England.  She will play Book One in Edington, raising funds for the musical charities Live Music Now, Help Musicians, Future Talent and Youth Music.

 

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