Steven Devine directs music by the Bach family
£20 reserved / £15 unreserved / half-price to those under 30
This year Steven Devine’s annual Bach concert expands to take in music by three of Johann Sebastian’s sons, featuring concertos for harpsichord and fortepiano. The centrepiece is the great E flat concerto by Carl Philip Emmanuel, the second son. It was his last work, and the only one at the time to bring together the old and new keyboard instruments. There will also be music by Wilhelm Friedemann (the eldest son); a Mozartian piano concerto by John Christian (the youngest son); and Johann Sebastian’s rarely performed F minor harpsichord concerto. The programme is completed by Johann Sebastian’s extraordinary threepart Ricercar from The Musical Offering, his only piano work, apparently written for one of Frederick the Great’s instruments at Sanssouci.
The harpsichordist and composer Satoko Doi-Luck makes a welcome return after her SVF debut in 2021, in Bach’s concertos for three harpsichords. Steven Devine is one of the world’s leading early music specialists, celebrated as a soloist as well as a director of leading ensembles here and abroad.
Tickets: £20 reserved, £15 unreserved (half-price to those under 30)
