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Bach the European: From Ancient Cosmos towards Enlightenment 2020

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19 Jan-29 Nov 2020

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Duke's Hall

Having performed all the Bach cantatas over a decade between 2009 and 2018, we are delighted to present the second year of our current series entitled ‘Bach the European: from Ancient Cosmos towards Enlightenment’, placing Bach in a wide-ranging and challenging new context.

Bach and Politics (Limited Availability)
Sun 19 Jan 2020, 12.00pm

We begin the 2020 season of 'Bach the European' with two pieces associated with the Saxon Royal Family in Dresden.

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Series Package 2020
Death and the Imagination (Limited Availability)
Sun 1 Mar 2020, 12.00pm

This programme presents works related to funerals, opening with Bach's Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf.

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CANCELLED - Bach and the Dramatic Impulse (Limited Availability)
Sun 29 Mar 2020, 12.00pm

Two of Bach's most dramatic cantatas are placed side by side with powerful devotional music from France and England.

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CANCELLED - Bach and his European Heritage (Limited Availability)
Sun 10 May 2020, 12.00pm

Here is Bach in the context of the choicest liturgical and instrumental pieces to come out of Italy.

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CANCELLED: Bach and the Creation of Modern Europe: Italy and the South (Limited Availability)
Sun 14 Jun 2020, 12.00pm

This programme reflects the energy and confidence of Roman liturgical music written for concert performance at the start of the 18th century.

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CANCELLED: Bach and the Extended Family (Limited Availability)
Sun 5 Jul 2020, 12.00pm

This concert places Johann Sebastian Bach's wedding cantata Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten in the context of works by three of his relatives.

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Bach and the Creation of Modern Europe: Central Europe (Limited Availability)
Sun 4 Oct 2020, 12.00pm

A highlight of the Weimar cantata output, Widerstehe doch der Sünde demonstrates the 'fresher' style of the young composer before he moved to Leipzig.

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Bach and the German Liturgy (Limited Availability)
Sun 1 Nov 2020, 12.00pm

This all-Bach programme includes the Prelude and Fugue in E flat from the Clavier-Übung III.

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Saxon Kings (Limited Availability)
Sun 29 Nov 2020, 12.00pm

This concert juxtaposes ceremonial music written for Saxon kings by Bach and Handel, who both used splendid vocal and orchestral forces to demonstrate the prestige and power of the monarchy.

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