Bach to Bach

Thank you to you, Anna and Shaun for a sublimely beautiful concert on Saturday evening. The audience was thrilled to experience live music and I thought the concert went off perfectly’ Dr E David MacIntosh, dir. Annual Glebe Music Festival, 2020

Program

Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)

Sonata in G for viola da gamba and basso

John Christian Bach (1735 – 1782)

Sonata in C minor Op. 3 No. 6 for Piano forte or harpsichord

Giovanni Bononcini (1670 – 1747)

Cantata O frondoso arboscello

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)

Sonata in G major BWV 1027 for harpsichord and viola da gamba

Georg Friedrich Handel (1684 – 1759)

Cantata Lucrezia

Bach to Bach

presented by the Annual Glebe Music Festival

21 November 2020 at 7 pm

St John’s Church, Glebe

 Music for harpsichord, viola da gamba and voice.

Music for harpsichord, viola da gamba and voice.

Between the generation of Johann Sebastian Bach (b. 1685) and his youngest son John Christian (d. 1782) quite a few composers gravitated towards London in the course of their careers. Two such were back-to-back rivals Georg Friedrich Handel and Giovanni Bononcini, vying for the title of ‘most popular opera-composer’. Another pair took a different approach – John Christian Bach and Carl Friedrich Abel formed a long-standing partnership, together running their own successful concert series.

Not so the great Johann Sebastian Bach who never set foot outside Germany.

Anna Fraser – soprano

Shaun Ng – viola da gamba

Diana Weston – harpsichord