Name: Bach Motets & Solo Violin Music: Concert 2 – Into the Light
Start: 2024-06-06T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-06-06T00:00:00.000Z
Location: St Martin-in-the-Fields

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Jonathan Sells

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Kati Debretzeni

Violin

Bach Motets & Solo Violin Music: Concert 2 – Into the Light

London

United Kingdom

St Martin-in-the-Fields

Bach Motets & Solo Violin Music: Concert 2 – Into the Light: Partita No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002 Bach, J. S. (+4 More)

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Partita No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002

Jesu, meine Freude

Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor BWV 1003

Partita in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004

Sing a new song to the Lord

Maria Cueto Crespo

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Bach’s motets have been part of the Monteverdi Choir’s repertoire for over five decades, giving the choir the opportunity to display technical virtuosity as well as a vivid conception of the drama behind Bach’s interpretation of the religious texts.

Many of the motets were composed for funerals, but the music’s variety and frequent exuberance belies this fact; we are constantly aware of Bach’s questing, imaginative mind in these explorations of man’s relationship to the divine.

All of Bach’s six authenticated motets were written between 1723 and 1727 for St Thomas’ Church, Leipzig, where Bach was appointed as director of music in 1723. Each of them is endlessly fascinating, and each inhabits its own sound world. Bach’s masterful use of canon, fugue and counterpoint, and the brilliant exploitation of double-choir sonorities, are perfectly matched by the Monteverdi Choir’s virtuosity.

These miraculous pieces will be interspersed with Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin performed by Kati Debretzeni, the leader of the English Baroque Soloists.

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Bach Motets & Solo Violin Music: Concert 2 – Into the Light by Bach, J. S., Thu 06 Jun 2024, From (2024/2024), Conductor Jonathan Sells, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, United Kingdom

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