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BACHFEST '08
2-18 NOVEMBER

"Ways to Bach"
This year's festival reflects the 300th anniversary of Bach's appointment at Weimar in 1708, the 40th anniversary of Steinitz Bach Players & its role in the community today.

Main Events

"Ways to Bach" I

Sunday 2 November at 7.30pm

Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, W1U 2BP
Director John Gilhooley, The Wigmore Hall Trust.
Registered charity No. 1024838
www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
[Bond Street tube]

JSB at Heaven's Castle
Gillian Keith, Michael Chance, Nathan Vale, Peter Harvey
Steinitz Bach Players leader Rodolfo Richter
Anthony Robson director

A programme of Bach's cantatas composed for the Court Chapel at Weimar (Himmelsburg) to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Bach's appointment (1708) and the 40th anniversary of Steinitz Bach Players. The cantatas to be performed, BWV 152, 54, 161 and 61, will be sung & played at the original pitch.

For more information about Bach's Cantatas, and these in particular, visit our unique database.

Tickets: £25.00, £22.00, £18.00, and £12.00 from Wigmore Hall direct

Book in person or by telephone 020 7935 2141 (£1.50 admin fee) or online at www.wigmore-hall.org.uk (50p admin fee). Fees for telephone and online booking include the return of your tickets by first class post.

Booking opens on 1 September

Press Review, April 2008

"Steinitz Bach Players are masters of this music and it showed in every bar, sympathetic and utterly meticulous under Elizabeth Bates' direction."

Bath Chronicle: Bach Cantatas with the Chantry Singers at Bath Abbey, April 2008

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"Ways to Bach" II

Wednesday 5 November at 7.00pm – The Semi Final
Friday 7 November at 7.15pm (NB time) – The Final

St. George's Church, Hanover Square, London W1
[Oxford Circus tube]

2nd LBS BACH SINGERS' PRIZE
The Semi-Final:
Each semi-finalist will sing a Recitative and Aria from a Bach Passion
The Final:
Each finalist will perform a mixed Bach programme with Steinitz Bach Players

Steinitz Bach Players, directed by Anthony Robson

The Jury:
Peter Harvey, Patrizia Kwella, Ian Partridge (Chairman), Anthony Robson

The Prize:
£2,000 generously donated by The Matthiesen Foundation
With the support of
The Fenton Arts Trust, The Lynn Foundation and private donors

Tickets: Semi-Final £10 at the door from 6.15pm
Tickets: Final £20, £15 (Students £5 with Student Identity Card) in advance from 01883 717372 (Credit cards accepted with booking fee of £1 including the return of your tickets by first class post) or at the door from 6.30pm

The Final will also be given in celebration of Lord Avebury's 80th Birthday

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"Ways to Bach" III

Friday 14 November at 6.30pm

Room 20, National Portrait Gallery, St. Martin's Place, London WC2H 0HE
[Leicester Square or Charing Cross tube]

Steinitz Bach Players in Recital
Anthony Robson director

For its debut at the National Portrait Gallery and as part of the Steinitz Bach Players 40th anniversary celebrations this special recital programme will include some delicious chamber music for woodwind and continuo by J S Bach, his friend and contemporary Telemann, and also by Henry Purcell whose 350th anniversary is in 2009. The distinguished soloists include Rachel Beckett and Anthony Robson (recorders)

The Programme:
:: Trio Sonata in G for two flutes and continuo BWV 1039 - J S Bach
:: Sonata in D minor for flute, oboe and continuo - Telemann
:: 'Three Parts on a Ground' for three recorders and continuo - Purcell
:: Quartet in D minor for 'Tafelmusik' Part II - Telemann

ADMISSION FREE
With the support of
The National Portrait Gallery
Given as part of the Friday Evening Music Series

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"Ways to Bach" IV

Tuesday 18 November at 2.30pm

St. Peter's Church, Eaton Square SW1
[Victoria tube]

"Dancing to Bach 3"
Mary Collins dancer
Steinitz Bach Players
Anthony Robson director

Pupils from member-schools of the British-German Association's Youthbridge join a party from Youthbridge Schools in Dresden for an interactive session on Bach and the Dance. The pupils will be taught 18th century dance steps, perform them with Mary and the orchestra, and enhance their knowledge of the composer, his life and times relating them to the 21st century. The session will reflect on Bach's years at the Weimar Court.

Open to LBS & BGA Members only – for tickets please telephone 020 7235 1922 (11-4 Mon-Thurs)

With the support of
The German Embassy in London and British-German Association's 'Youthbridge'

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