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Mystery Sonatas
Friday 24 May, 8.15 pm
Oud-Katholieke Kerk 't Huis te Poort, Dam 30, 3111 BD Schiedam, The Netherlands
Nicolette Moonen and Pawel Siwczak play a selection of Biber's Mystery (or Rosary) Sonatas. Pawel Siwczak will also play organ music by composers of Biber's time. Find out more
Sunday 19 May, 6.30 pm
St Saviour's Church, Eton Road, South Hampstead, London, NW3 4SU
Dance of the Nations
Saturday 11 May, 7.15 pm
London Festival of Baroque Music: St John's Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA
The Bach Players join hands with Ricardo Barros's Mercurius Company to present a concert that embodies the European idea in music and dance. Musicians and dancers have always travelled, both in mind and in body, and this programme will take you on a journey across the Continent: from Russia and Turkey, through Switzerland, Italy, France, and on to Spain and Portugal. Our performers come from Brazil, Britain, Germany, Austria, France and the Netherlands. The music will be both played and danced to, providing an enjoyable reminder that dance was fundamental to music in the baroque period, and part of the fabric of everyday life then. Telemann's suite 'Les Nations', in which the characters of European countries are depicted in music, is followed by Rebel's 'Les caractères de la danse': a compendium of the main dance forms of the period, performed by Ricardo Barros. Vivaldi's passionate and hugely popular set of variations on 'La Follia' takes on fresh meanings when danced out. The concert concludes with Telemann's 'burlesque' of Don Quixotte. The Spanish nobleman of Cervantes's novel lives in an imaginary world in which he chases windmills and hankers after sweet Dulcinée. He prefers his fantasies to the reality of the world: a fable for the times in which we live? The concert will be presented in the round, in the main body of the church, and can be enjoyed by people of all ages. Find out more
A hop and step across the Channel: learn to dance a Gavotte and a Menuet with Ricardo Barros
Saturday 11 May, 10.30 am
Follow English dancing master Mr Isaac's footsteps and hop across the channel for a dancing 'entente cordiale'. Learn contredanses in the two most popular forms of the Baroque period: the gavotte 'La Bonne Amitié' by Feuillet (1706) and the 'Menuet Anglois' by Lorin (1698).
Thursday 9 May, 7.30 pm
The Garage, 14 Chapel Field North, Norwich NR2 1NY
The Bach Players join hands with Ricardo Barros to present a concert that embodies the European idea in music and dance. Artists have always travelled and this programme will take you on a journey across the continent. Some of the music will be danced to, providing an enjoyable reminder that dance was fundamental to music in the baroque period. Telemann's suite 'Les Nations', in which the characters of European countries are depicted in music, is followed by Rebel's 'Les Caractères de la danse': a compendium of the main dance forms of the period. In Telemann's 'burlesque' of Don Quichotte the Spanish nobleman of Cervantes's novel lives in an imaginary world in which he chases windmills and hankers after sweet Dulcinée. A fable for the times in which we live? The concert concludes with Vivaldi's passionate and hugely popular set of variations on 'La Follia'. The concert can be enjoyed by people of all ages.
Sunday 31 March, 5.00 pm
The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN
In the approach to Easter, The Bach Players perform Joseph Haydn's Seven Last Words in the version for string quartet. Haydn's composition was extraordinarily popular in his own time; following the original composition for full orchestra, he wrote the chamber version and then another for orchestra and choir. Charles Burney, who heard an early performance of the version for string quartet, wrote in 1791 that it was 'perhaps, the most sublime composition without words to point out its meaning that has ever been composed'. The concert will be played without an interval. Find out more
Saturday 30 March, 7.30 pm
St Dominic's Priory, Southampton Road, London NW5 4LB
In the approach to Easter, The Bach Players perform Joseph Haydn's Seven Last Words in the version for string quartet. Haydn's composition was extraordinarily popular in his own time; following the original composition for full orchestra, he wrote the chamber version and then another for orchestra and choir. Charles Burney, who heard an early performance of the version for string quartet, wrote in 1791 that it was 'perhaps, the most sublime composition without words to point out its meaning that has ever been composed'. The concert will take place in the Lady Chapel, and will be played without an interval. Find out more
Biber: the Joyful Mysteries
Sunday 9 December, 5.00 pm
St Swithin's Church, Clunbury, Shropshire SY7 0HG
In the days leading up to Christmas, Nicolette Moonen (violin) and Pawel Siwczak (organ) perform the first five of the Rosary Sonatas by H.I.F. Biber (1644–1704). In these sonatas, Biber's highly descriptive music addresses and describes the birth of Christ and the events that surrounded it. Pawel Siwczak will also play organ music by composers of Biber's time. The concert will take place in this beautiful parish church, built originally in the twelfth century, and will be candlelit. Find out more
A musical offering
Saturday 20 October, 8.15 pm
Paaskerk Baarn, Oude Utrechtseweg 4a, 3743 KN Baarn, The Netherlands
Johann Sebastian Bach's Musical Offering (BWV 1079) is a late work that both looks back to the tradition in which he was grounded and forward to the music of his sons. The concert opens with a sonata by Buxtehude, Bach's admired elder: we hear the 'stylus phantasticus' in full flight, with its unpredictable structures and sometimes startling improvisatory freedoms. The fashionable flute features in the Paris quartets by Telemann, Bach's close contemporary. No. 6 in E minor is in the French galant style – a succession of character pieces, culminating in a wonderful chaconne. The Musical Offering is often taken to be a disjointed collection of fragments, dominated by the culminating, beautiful trio sonata. This performance treats the work as an essay in the musical rhetoric in which Bach was immersed. The succession of canons and fugues become a speech – a musical oration, in which factual statements are then elaborated on and developed in argumentative sections, interspersed with charming passages that may seduce the listener. The sonata then gives free rein to the whole spectrum of emotions. The work concludes with a final, calming 'perpetual canon'. This is a chance to hear Bach's famous piece with fresh ears. Find out more
Thursday 18 October, 7.30 pm
St John's Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA
Johann Sebastian Bach's Musical Offering (BWV 1079) is a late work that both looks back to the tradition in which he was grounded and forward to the music of his sons. The concert opens with a sonata by Buxtehude, Bach's admired elder: we hear the 'stylus phantasticus' in full flight, with its unpredictable structures and sometimes startling improvisatory freedoms. The fashionable flute features in the Paris quartets by Telemann, Bach's close contemporary. No. 6 in E minor is in the French galant style – a succession of character pieces, culminating in a wonderful chaconne. The Musical Offering is often taken to be a disjointed collection of fragments, dominated by the culminating, beautiful trio sonata. This performance treats the work as an essay in the musical rhetoric in which Bach was immersed. The succession of canons and fugues become a speech – a musical oration, in which factual statements are then elaborated on and developed in argumentative sections, interspersed with charming passages that may seduce the listener. The sonata then gives free rein to the whole spectrum of emotions. The work concludes with a final, calming 'perpetual canon'. This is a chance to hear Bach's famous piece with fresh ears.
Wednesday 17 October, 7.30 pm
Dorset County Museum Concert Society: St Mary's Church, Edward Road, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 2HJ
A musical offering: the art of eloquence
Sunday 14 October, 3.00 pm
Little Missenden Festival: Church of St John the Baptist, Little Missenden, Amersham, Bucks HP7 0RA
Johann Sebastian Bach's Musical Offering (BWV 1079) is a late work that looks both back to the tradition in which he worked and forwards to the music of his sons. We play this dazzling piece in the context of music by Bach's esteemed elders: Buxtehude and Pachelbel Find out more
Saxon Shore Early Music: St Mary's Church, Kenardington, Kent TN26 2NF
Couperin: l'Art de la Danse
Sunday 2 September, 3.00 pm
Utrecht Early Music Festival: Hertzzaal Tivoli Vredenburg, Vredenburgkade 11, 3511 WC Utrecht
We present a variety of François Couperin's instrumental compositions in both the Italian and French styles: formal dances and character pieces, sonatas and harpsichord solo pieces. Our dancers will dance where appropriate. This is an exploration: can music be danced to, if it was not in the first place composed to be danced to? At the centre of the programme is Jean-Féry Rebel's composition 'Les Caractères de la Dance', written as an interval piece for solo dancer. Find out more
Italy versus France
Thursday 5 July, 7.00 pm
Burgh House, New End Square, Hampstead, London NW3 1LT
Italian or French? In the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in Europe, two national musical styles were seen as opposing and in contest, though composers increasingly brought them together. This concert brings the styles to life in works by some of the brilliant composers of the times: Corelli, Couperin, Clérambault, Rameau. We are playing in a perfect setting: the wood-panelled music room at Burgh House Find out more
Wednesday 4 July, 7.30 pm
Italian or French? In the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in Europe, two national musical styles were seen as opposing and in contest, though composers increasingly brought them together. This concert brings the styles to life in works by some of the brilliant composers of the times: Corelli, Couperin, Clérambault, Rameau Find out more
Pour le souper du roi
London Festival of Baroque Music: St Peter's Church, Eaton Square, 119 Eaton Square, London SW1W 9AL
This programme paints a musical picture of the chamber music presented to Louis XIV and Louis XV. The featured composers were among their favourites, allowed into the inner circle of the king and given the title 'musicien pour la chambre du Roy': their tasks included providing music for the king in his private chambers. Some of the best chamber music of the period was written for these occasions. The concert offers a rich and various banquet of preludes, suites, sonatas and character pieces, and shows the passage from French to Italian styles. Find out more
Biber: the Glorious Mysteries
The third of three concerts in which Nicolette Moonen (violin) and Pawel Siwczak (organ) perform all of the Rosary Sonatas by H.I.F. Biber (1644–1704) – by candle light, in the appropriate side-chapels at St Dominic's, and in the appropriate liturgical season. In this concert they play the third cycle of sonatas, concerned with the resurrection of Christ and the events that surrounded it. Pawel Siwczak will also play organ music by composers of Biber's time. After the concert (which runs for about an hour), the Dominican friars invite the audience for drinks, and there will be time to look at the wonderful interior architecture of St Dominic's. Families with children are very welcome to attend.
Tuesday 13 March, 7.30 pm
Leamington Music: St Mary's Church, Old Square, Warwick CV34 4RA
Boccherini's Stabat Mater is a work of compelling intensity that stands out among the many settings of this text. We are performing the original, chamber version of the piece, scored for string quintet with two cellos; interspersed will be movements from Haydn's The Seven Last Words. As well as shared themes there is a historical connection here: it is possible that Boccherini, a great admirer of his older colleague, played a part in securing the commission for Haydn to write The Seven Last Words, first performed in Cadiz. Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear Boccherini's Stabat Mater. Find out more
St John's Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU
Boccherini's Stabat Mater is a work of compelling intensity that stands out among the many settings of this text. We are performing the original, chamber version of the piece, scored for string quintet with two cellos; interspersed will be movements from Haydn's The Seven Last Words. As well as shared themes there is a historical connection here: it is possible that Boccherini, a great admirer of his older colleague, played a part in securing the commission for Haydn to write The Seven Last Words, first performed in Cadiz. Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear Boccherini's Stabat Mater.
Thursday 8 March, 7.30 pm
Biber: the Sorrowful Mysteries
Saturday 24 February, 7.30 pm
The second of three concerts in which Nicolette Moonen (violin) and Pawel Siwczak (organ) perform all of the Rosary Sonatas by H.I.F. Biber (1644–1704) – by candle light, in the appropriate side-chapels at St Dominic's, and in the appropriate liturgical season. In this concert they play the second cycle of five sonatas, concerned with the death of Christ and the events that surrounded it. Also included will be Gregorian chant, sung by the friars of St Dominic's. After the concert (which runs for about an hour), the Dominican friars invite the audience for drinks, and there will be time to look at the wonderful interior architecture of St Dominic's. Families with children are very welcome to attend.
Saturday 2 December, 7.30 pm
The first of three concerts in which Nicolette Moonen (violin) and Pawel Siwczak (organ) perform all of the Rosary Sonatas by H.I.F. Biber (1644–1704) – by candle light, in the appropriate side-chapels at St Dominic's, and in the appropriate liturgical season. In this concert they play the first five sonatas, concerned with the birth of Christ and the events that surrounded it. Pawel Siwczak will also play organ music by composers of Biber's time. After the concert (which runs for about an hour), the Dominican friars invite the audience for drinks, and there will be time to look at the wonderful interior architecture of St Dominic's. Families with children are very welcome to attend. Find out more
Sound the trumpet!
To mark our twentieth anniversary, we return to our beginnings to present an all-Bach programme: two joyous, well-known cantatas, complemented by two celebrated instrumental works. 'Weichet nur betrübte Schatten' is a wedding canata for solo soprano voice; 'Jauchzet Gott' gives virtuosic parts to solo soprano and trumpet. The trumpet is featured also in Brandenburg Concerto no. 2. We will also play selections from the Art of Fugue. This will be a special, celebratory event. Find out more
Georgian Concert Society: St Andrew's & St George's West, 13 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2PA
Shakespeare's plays were at the heart of the Restoration theatrical repertory. Freely adapted, with lavish music and spectacular staging, a number of them remained popular even after a new Restoration repertory had developed. In this programme, music by Henry Purcell is placed alongside that of his predecessors, Matthew Locke and Robert Smith, and of his pupil John Weldon, painting a picture of changing musical approaches to the words of the bard. The programme also includes the earliest surviving setting of a sonnet by Shakespeare, an adaptation of Sonnet no. 116 by Henry Lawes. Find out more
Saturday 7 October, 7.30 pm
To mark our twentieth anniversary, we return to our beginnings to present an all-Bach programme: two joyous, well-known cantatas, complemented by two celebrated instrumental works. 'Weichet nur betrübte Schatten' is a wedding canata for solo soprano voice; 'Jauchzet Gott' gives virtuosic parts to solo soprano and trumpet. The trumpet is featured also in Brandenburg Concerto no. 2. We will also play selections from the Art of Fugue. This will be a special, celebratory event – with extra features to be revealed on the night. Find out more
Thursday 5 October, 7.30 pm
In the Company of Gods: music by François Couperin, Marin Marais, and Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
Friday 7 July, 7.30 pm
The court of Louis XIV did indeed become a parnassus – a source for some of the greatest music and poetry of the time. In this concert we focus on private music for the King, by Marin Marais, François Couperin, Jean Philippe Rameau – and Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre. She is often introduced as a 'woman composer', but as the three pieces played here will show, she transcends any category. Her work can display drama, intensity, and great artistic subtlety. No wonder that Évrard Titon du Tillet in his Parnasse français (1732) gave her a place on Mount Parnassus alongside Marais and Couperin. This will be a rare chance to hear Jacquet de La Guerre, in the company with which she so clearly belongs. Find out more
Rameau: Pièces de clavecin en concerts
St Michael's Church, Cobham Close, Battersea, London SW11 6SP
A feast of Jean Philippe Rameau: his Pièces de clavecin en concerts, with some shorter works by him and his contemporaries
In praise of the Virgin Mary: Pergolesi's setting of the Stabat Mater text, the Concerto Madrigalesco by Vivaldi and one of his Sonatas al Santo Sepolcro, and a Mystery Sonata by Biber Find out more
Wednesday 15 February, 7.30 pm
Dorset County Museum Concert Society, Dorset County Museum, High West Street, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1XA
This programme paints a musical picture of the chamber music presented to Louis XIV by his favourite composers. Composers who were allowed into the inner circle of the king were given the title 'musicien pour la chambre du Roy': their tasks included providing music for the king in his private rooms. Some of the best chamber music of the period was written for these occasions. Find out more
Sunday 12 February, 6.30 pm
St Michael's Church, Cobham Close, Battersea
, London SW11 6SP
Saturday 17 December, 8.15 pm
An anthology of seasonal music from Advent to Christmas, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, and from all over Europe Find out more
Handel's Messiah: come & sing + concert
Saturday 3 December, 7.00 am
Heath Street Choir (Joe Wagott, director)
with The Bach Players (Nicolette Moonen, leader)
Heath Street Baptist Church, 84 Heath Street, London NW3 1DN
The Bach Players join Heath Street Choir in a come & sing day, leading to a concert performance of Handel's Messiah in the evening. Soloists include Rachel Elliott (soprano). This is in aid of the Panzi Hospital, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Find out more
Coffee and cabbage
Sunday 9 October, 5.00 pm
Two of J.S. Bach's loved secular cantatas – essentially small-scale operas for soprano and bass voices – are given in the context of his fifth Brandenburg Concerto and canons from the Goldberg Variations Find out more
Saturday 17 September, 7.30 pm
Totnes Early Music Society, St Mary's Church, High Street, Totnes TQ9 5NN
Sunday 21 August, 7.30 pm
Binham Priory, Binham, Norfolk NR21 0DQ
A summer concert of music by Vivaldi, Biber, Guido, and others. This is programmatic music, expressing the themes of nature. You will hear cuckoos, nightingales, frogs, ducks, and thunder too. Although some of these composers are not well known, this is music that will appeal to anyone – and especially to children Find out more
Wednesday 20 July, 7.00 pm
Fenton House, Hampstead Grove, Hampstead, London, NW3 6SP
Saturday 11 June, 7.30 pm
Music in Lyddington: St Andrew's, Lyddington
Saturday 4 June, 7.30 pm
Thursday 2 June, 7.30 pm
Laments for Passiontide
Saturday 5 March, 7.30 pm
The lament became an established musical genre and in this concert we present examples of this expressive form over two centuries, from Italy and Austria. Perhaps the first example of the musical lament was Monteverdi's 'Lamento d'Arianna': a five-part madrigal, performed here with soprano and strings and continuo. Monteverdi later adapted the piece for a sacred text: his 'Pianto della Madonna'. Haydn reworked his 'Arianna a Naxos' aria as a Marian lament, 'Maria quaerit Christum filium', for soprano and string quartet. In addition we perform passionate works by Monteverdi's near-contemporary Merula, by Schmelzer (who worked in Vienna) and by Vivaldi (at whose funeral in Vienna Haydn might have sung). Find out more
The lament became an established musical genre and in this concert we present examples of this expressive form over two centuries, from Italy and Austria. Perhaps the first example of the musical lament was Monteverdi's 'Lamento d'Arianna': a five-part madrigal, performed here with soprano and strings and continuo. Monteverdi later adapted the piece for a sacred text: his 'Pianto della Madonna'. Haydn reworked his 'Arianna a Naxos' aria as a Marian lament, 'Maria quaerit Christum filium', for soprano and string quartet. In addition we perform passionate works by Monteverdi's near-contemporary Merula, by Schmelzer (who worked in Vienna) and by Vivaldi (at whose funeral in Vienna Haydn might have sung).
Bach's library
Saturday 14 November, 7.30 pm
A selection of pieces that J.S. Bach had in his library and which provide a context for his celebrated Orchestral Suite in B minor Find out more
Bach and before: music at St Thomas's Leipzig
Music by three predecessors of J.S. Bach as Kantor at the Thomasschule in Leipzig – Schein, Schelle, Kuhnau – and the first cantata that Bach composed for his new job there: the magnificent 'Die Elenden sollen essen' (BWV 75) Find out more
Finchcocks Musical Museum, Goudhurst, Kent, TN17 1HH
Saturday 18 July, 7.30 pm
Thursday 16 July, 7.30 pm
Baroque in the summertime
The Derwent Singers (Richard Roddis, conductor)
St Mary's Church, Bridge Gate, Derby DE1 3AU
A concert featuring the music of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries. The Missa Brevis in A major is a joyous and sparkling work, sunny in nature although composed for Christmas. Bach knew Pergolesi's expressive 'Stabat Mater', and even made his own arrangement of it. There will be movements from two Cantatas, and the great motet 'Singet dem Herrn' Find out more
'A wonder has appeared in Paris': Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
London Festival of Baroque Music: The Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, London W1U 3BN
Chamber music composed by Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, including solo pieces for the harpsichord played by Béatrice Martin – in the exquisite surroundings of the Wallace Collection Find out more
An Italian in Paris
The Cobbe Collection, Hatchlands Park, East Clandon, GU4 7RT
Works by the first composers in France to explore the Italian style, this concert features Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, celebrated in the year of her 350th anniversary. More than a mere 'woman composer' (though she was, and under difficult conditions), Jacquet de La Guerre's music is consistently rich, surprising, and rewarding. This is a rare chance to hear her music played in concert. Find out more
Leamington Music: St Mary's Church, Warwick
Johann Sebastian Bach's Musical Offering (BWV 1079) and festive music by Buxtehude and Telemann Find out more
A grand tour of Europe
Sevenoaks Music Club: Ship Theatre, Sevenoaks
Music by French, English, German, and Italian composers that one might have heard on an eighteenth-century 'grand tour' Find out more
Thursday 26 February, 7.30 pm
Vivaldi's Stabat Mater, and the astonishing and rarely heard 'Il pianto di Maria' by Ferrandini, formerly attributed to Handel, together with two of Vivaldi's Sonatas al Santo Sepolcro Find out more
Friday 13 February, 7.30 pm
Cambridge Early Music: Cambridge
A Christmas present
Friday 12 December, 7.30 pm
Wednesday 10 December, 7.30 pm
Chester Music Society, Chester
Sleepers awake!
Saturday 8 November, 8.15 pm
The Advent cantata 'Wachet auf' in the setting by J.S. Bach (BWV 140) and two versions by Dieterich Buxtehude, and chamber music by Buxtehude and Erlebach Find out more
Thursday 6 November, 7.30 pm
Friday 10 October, 7.30 pm
Egremont, Cumbria
St Jean de Braye eglise paroissiale, France
A selection of pieces that J.S. Bach had in his library and which provide a context for his celebrated Orchestral Suite in B minor
From Venice to Hamburg
How the Italian improvisatory 'stylus fantasticus' travelled from Italy to Germany, with music by Bertali, Weckmann, Valentini, Schmelzer, Froberger, and others Find out more
Pour le coucher du roy
Friday 20 June, 10.00 pm
Stour Music, All Saints' Boughton Aluph, Kent TN25 4EU
Music for the private chambers of Louis XIV by composers who were 'Musiciens de la Chambre du Roy' (Marais, de Visée, Rebel, Jacquet de La Guerre). Find out more
Tales of enchantment
Saturday 12 April, 6.30 pm
At our invitation, Maya Homburger and Barry Guy play and improvise on compositions by Biber, Kurtag, and by Barry Guy himself. Find out more
Wednesday 5 March, 7.00 pm
London Handel Festival: St George's Hanover Square, London W1S 1FX Find out more
The Octagon Chapel, Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BN Find out more
Georgian Concert Society, St Cecilia's Hall, Cowgate, Edinburgh EH1 1NQ
Music presented to King Louis XIV by his favourite composers Find out more
Handel House Museum, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB
Bach and his rivals [2]
Cantatas composed for the 4th Sunday after Epiphany, 30 January 1724, by Telemann, Graupner, and J.S. Bach, a year after they had composed their cantatas for the audition of the Kantor's job at St Thomas's Leipzig. Find out more
Cantatas composed for the 4th Sunday after Epiphany, 30 January 1724, by Telemann, Graupner, and J.S. Bach, a year after they had composed their cantatas for the audition of the Kantor's job at St Thomas's Leipzig Find out more
Wednesday 11 September, 8.00 pm
A rich banquet of private music, with an Italian flavour, for Louis XIV
A rich banquet of private music, with an Italian flavour, for Louis XIV Find out more
Pachelbel and Bach: cantatas and canons
Paaskerk Baarn, Oude Utrechtseweg 4a, Baarn, The Netherlands
Music by Johann Pachelbel and J.S. Bach
In praise of the Virgin Mary: Pergolesi's setting of the Stabat Mater text, and Mystery Sonatas by Biber Find out more
Bach and his rivals
Audition cantatas for the post of Cantor at St Thomas's church Leipzig, by Telemann, Graupner, and Johann Sebastian Bach Find out more
Thursday 27 September, 7.30 pm
A selection of pieces that Johann Sebastian Bach had in his library and which provide a context for his celebrated Orchestral Suite in B minor Find out more
Friday 29 June, 7.30 pm
Thursday 28 June, 8.15 pm
Wednesday 27 June, 7.30 pm
Cambridge Early Music: St John's College Chapel, Cambridge
Pachelbel, Purcell, Bach: memorial concert for Gustav Leonhardt
Thursday 19 April, 7.30 pm
St James's Church, 197 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL
A programme of music that was close to Gustav Leonhardt's heart, with short spoken contributions from those who knew and worked with him, including Mark Deller and Nicholas Anderson Find out more
Stabat Mater: music for Easter
In praise of the Virgin Mary: Alessandro Scarlatti's setting of the Stabat Mater, punctuated by two of Biber's Mystery Sonatas Find out more
Friday 2 March, 7.30 pm
The Forge, 3–7 Delancey Street, London NW1 7NL Find out more
Pachelbel and Bach: canons and cantatas [2]
A second selection of music by Johann Sebastian Bach and his predecessor Johann Pachelbel (following the concerts in November 2010) Find out more
Thursday 17 November, 7.30 pm
Saturday 3 September, 6.00 pm
Chapel of Reconciliation, Walsingham, Norfolk Find out more
La Grande France
Saturday 2 July, 8.15 pm
The French style in music at court and in the theatres in Restoration London Find out more
St John's Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NU Find out more
Brighton College, Eastern Road, Brighton BN2 0AL
Lully, Corelli, Muffat, and the styles reunited Find out more
Canons and cantatas: Pachelbel and Bach
Tuesday 22 February, 7.30 pm
Leamington Music, St Mary's Church, Warwick Find out more
Georgian Concert Society, St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh
The King of Hearts: United Reformed Church, Princes Street, Norwich NR3 1AZ Find out more
Friday 16 July, 7.30 pm
The King of Hearts: The Octagon Chapel, Norwich
York Early Music Festival: St Michael le Belfrey Church, High Petergate, York
Hatchlands Park, Guildford
Friday 9 April, 7.30 pm
The King of Hearts, Norwich Find out more
Nun komm! Music for Advent and beyond
Friday 27 November, 7.30 pm
The King of Hearts at the Octagon Chapel, Norwich Find out more
Rendezvous in Vienna
Friday 18 September, 7.30 pm
King of Hearts, Norwich Find out more
East Cork Early Music Festival: CIT, Cork School of Music Find out more
Bach arranging and arranged
Beverley Early Music Festival: Beverley Minster, Beverley, East Yorkshire Find out more
Saturday 31 January, 7.30 pm
Thursday 29 January, 7.30 pm
Every one a chaconne
Monday 24 November, 8.00 pm
Haydn and Boccherini: folk tunes
Monday 30 June, 8.00 pm
St John's Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 Find out more
Hatchlands Park, Guildford Find out more
Sunday 22 June, 3.00 pm
Stour Music, All Saints', Boughton Aluph Find out more
Holy Trinity Church, Beauchamp Avenue, Leamington Find out more
Warwick Bach Weekend: Bach / Rosenmüller
St Mary's Church Warwick Find out more
Warwick Bach Weekend: Solo Bach
Saturday 17 May, 12.00 pm
Unitarian Chapel, High Street, Warwick Find out more
Castalia Hall, Ballytobin, Callan, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland Find out more
Friday 28 March, 8.00 pm
Thursday 27 March, 7.30 pm
Bach in autumn
Mozart with a dash of Bach
St George's, Hanover Square, London W1 Find out more
Music for Advent and Christmas
Tudeley Festival: All Saint's Church, Tudeley Find out more
Friday 9 December, 7.30 pm
National Centre for Early Music, St Margaret's Church, Walmgate, York Find out more
Purcell and Handel
Samobor, Croatia Find out more
Foreign invasions
Wednesday 8 June, 7.45 pm
Dubrovnik, Croatia Find out more
St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh Find out more
St George's Hanover Square, London Find out more
Tuesday 7 December, 7.30 pm
St Mary's, Warwick Find out more
J.S. Bach: Art of Fugue
Sunday 26 September, 7.30 pm
Warwick Early Music Showcase Find out more
Cantatas for Lent and Easter
St James's Piccadilly, London Find out more
Barber Institute, Birmingham Find out more
Wednesday 3 December, 7.30 pm
Musicon 2003/2004: Elvet Methodist Church, Durham Find out more
Monday 1 December, 7.30 pm
University Chapel, Keele Find out more
Wednesday 27 August, 7.30 pm
Dartington Summer School, Dartington Find out more
St Mary's Church, Warwick Find out more
J.S. Bach: instrumental works
Tuesday 12 November, 7.30 pm
The Georgian Concert Society: St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh Find out more
J.S. Bach: cantatas for alto
Tudeley Festival: St Nicholas's Church, Sevenoaks Find out more
J.S. Bach: the Musical Offering
Cambridge Summer Music Festival: The Catholic Church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Cambridge Find out more
J.S. Bach: secular cantatas
Bridge House Theatre, Warwick School, Warwick Find out more
Stour Music: Boughton Aluph Church Find out more
Thursday 18 May, 7.30 pm
Tilford Bach Society: All Saints' Church, Tilford Find out more
J.S. Bach: cantatas and B minor suite for flute
The Barber Institute, Birmingham Find out more
J.S. Bach: Advent cantatas
Sunday 28 November, 5.00 pm
St John's Wood Parish Church, London NW8 Find out more
J.S. Bach: St John Passion
Berliner Bachtage: Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal, Berlin Find out more
Dido and Aeneas
The King of Hearts: St George's Church, Norwich Find out more
Chapel of St Augustine, Tonbridge School, Tonbridge Find out more
Sunday 8 November, 5.00 pm
J.S. Bach: cantatas for soprano
Queen's College Chapel, Cambridge Find out more
J.S. Bach: cantatas for soprano and bass
Saturday 9 May, 7.30 pm
Oxford University Church, Oxford Find out more
Sunday 1 March, 5.00 pm
J.S. Bach: cantatas, orchestral suite, Brandenburg concerto
Dutch Embassy, London Find out more
J.S. Bach: cantatas and concertos
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