BACH BRANDENBURGS

Saturday 17 October at 7.30pm

Theatr Brycheiniog

Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque perform three of JS Bach’s popular Brandenburg Concertos (3, 4 & 5), a Telemann/Heinichen concerto for flute and vilolin and the Sinfonia to Cantata 182. Rachel is joined by recorder player, Lucie Horsch and harpsichordist, Marcin Świątkiewicz. A highlight of this year’s festival.

Programme:

JS Bach – Sinfonia to cantata BWV 182 – Himmelskönig, sei willkommen

JS Bach – Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 BWV 1048

Telemann/Heinichen – Concerto for Flute and Violin in E minor, TWV 52:e3

JS Bach – Brandenburg Concerto no. 5 in D major BWV 1050

JS Bach – Brandenburg Concerto no. 4 in G major BWV 1049

There will be two sittings of the same FREE pre-concert talk in The Studio at 6.15pm and 6.45pm given by Dr Keith Chapin (Cardiff University, School of Music) 

Duration: 90 minutes with an interval

Tickets: £20-£32

Free Pre-Concert Talk in the Studio at Theatr Brycheiniog at 6.15pm and repeated at 6.45pm (first come, first served)

We are delighted to welcome back Dr Keith Chapin (Cardiff University, School of Music) to give our pre-concert talk this year. Dr Keith Chapin is Senior Lecturer in Music at Cardiff University. From Alaska originally, he studied at Yale University (BA), Yale School of Music (MMus, viola performance), and Stanford University (PhD, musicology). Before moving to Wales in 2011, he lectured at Fordham University (New York) and the New Zealand School of Music (Wellington). He is currently at work on a book on music and the sublime in the long eighteenth century, and has published on the aesthetics of counterpoint and of classicism, on composers such as Telemann, C. P. E. Bach, and Beethoven, and on intersections between literature and music, especially around E. T. A. Hoffmann. He is an active violist, has learned Welsh, and is an avid runner and walker on the hills and along the canals of the Bannau Brycheiniog.