Raphael Wallfisch & John Butt: LCMS 2022/23 Sunday series at Kings Place, London on Sunday 22nd January 2023

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Raphael Wallfisch & John Butt

LCMS 2022/23 Sunday series

Add to my Calendar 22-01-2023 18:00 22-01-2023 20:00 36 Raphael Wallfisch & John Butt During the pandemic, when the performing life of musicians was essentially paralysed, Raphael Wallfisch commissioned a new 5-string ‘violoncello piccolo’ so he could use the time to get to know this unusual instrument, the archaic cousin of the modern cello. This allowed him to gain new insights, from the ‘inside’, of J.S. Bach’s famous sixth solo cello suite, written ‘a cinq cordes’, as Anna Magdalena Bach described it. The additional ‘E’ string lies a fifth above the A string, usually the highest on the cello. In this unique concert, Raphael is joined by famous Bach specialist John Butt at the harpsichord for two of Bach’s beautiful viola da gamba sonatas, together with the sixth solo suite. This remarkable music is placed in the context of other important influences; a gamba sonata by Carl Abel (it was Carl’s father who was the celebrated gamba performer at the court at Köthen), and a contemporary Italian cello sonata by Vivaldi. The whole concert is ‘preludised’ by a famous prelude and fugue for keyboard.   LCMS Sunday Concerts  Kings Place, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Kings Place
90 York Way
Kings Cross
London
N1 9AG
England

Sunday 22nd January 2023
6:00 PM

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach – Prelude and Fugue in C major, BVW 870
Carl Friedrich Abel – Sonata for Viola da Gamba and continuo in E minor K.150
Johann Sebastian Bach – Cello Suite no.6 in D major, BWV 1012
Antonio Vivaldi – Cello Sonata in B-flat major, RV 45
Johann Sebastian Bach – Sonata no.1 for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord in G major, BWV 1027

Performers

Raphael Wallfisch – Cello
John Butt – harpsichord

Programme Note

During the pandemic, when the performing life of musicians was essentially paralysed, Raphael Wallfisch commissioned a new 5-string ‘violoncello piccolo’ so he could use the time to get to know this unusual instrument, the archaic cousin of the modern cello. This allowed him to gain new insights, from the ‘inside’, of J.S. Bach’s famous sixth solo cello suite, written ‘a cinq cordes’, as Anna Magdalena Bach described it. The additional ‘E’ string lies a fifth above the A string, usually the highest on the cello.

In this unique concert, Raphael is joined by famous Bach specialist John Butt at the harpsichord for two of Bach’s beautiful viola da gamba sonatas, together with the sixth solo suite. This remarkable music is placed in the context of other important influences; a gamba sonata by Carl Abel (it was Carl’s father who was the celebrated gamba performer at the court at Köthen), and a contemporary Italian cello sonata by Vivaldi. The whole concert is ‘preludised’ by a famous prelude and fugue for keyboard.

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