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Welcome to Bath Bachfest 2024
It is my pleasure to invite you to the 13th Bath Bachfest, our annual celebration of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries set against the backdrop of one of Europe’s most beautiful and welcoming cities.
The festival was founded in 2012 as a complement to Bath Mozartfest and successor to the long-established Bath Bach Festival founded by Cuthbert Bates and later directed by his daughter, Elizabeth Bates, our Patron.
This year we open with Tenebrae, directed by Nigel Short. We will hear the acclaimed choir’s glorious singing in a programme which begins with music for Holy Week written by the renowned composer Carlos Gesualdo, followed by three much- loved Bach motets, together creating a programme of sacred gems – perfect for this skilled ensemble.
On Friday we welcome back two Bachfest favourites. At lunchtime the peerless Mahan Esfahani (who has achieved so much as an advocate for the harpsichord) will give a lunchtime concert featuring suites by Handel and J S Bach, the two giants of the Baroque period, as well as a work by Dieterich Buxtehude whose style greatly influenced both of these composers.
And in the evening The Academy of Ancient Music takes us on a joyful journey to Baroque Italy in a celebration of the Italian concerto in all its thrillingly entertaining forms. From Vivaldi’s popular and melodic L’Estro Armonico, to Corelli’s exuberant Concerto Grosso, via Mossi, Locatelli and Valentini, this virtuosic concert promises to dazzle and delight.
We are pleased to introduce the Katona Twins, Peter and Zoltán, who bring their outstanding guitar playing to the ‘fest’ for the first time. The Hungarian twins’ programme will encompass all the Baroque ‘greats’ from Handel to Scarlatti and, of course, J S Bach and promises to perfectly showcase their technical ability and acclaimed musicality.
Arcangelo, directed from the harpsichord by its artistic director, Jonathan Cohen, will give our final concert in Bath Abbey. The award-winning period performance ensemble will be joined by the rising-star violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte, appearing here as both soloist and Konzertmeister in this illuminating all-Bach programme of concerti and cantatas which showcases the composer’s incomparable and enduring genius.
My colleagues and I look forward to seeing you at Bath Bachfest and sharing an up-lifting and entertaining mid-winter musical interlude.
Amelia Freedman CBE, FRAM, Artistic Director
Concert tickets from £16 - £50
Guildhall and Bath Abbey located in central Bath .
St Mary’s Bathwick is a 12 minute flat walk fron the City Centre.
Some off street parking is available ( free after 7pm) Holburne Museum car park open till 10 pm – spaces limited.
All three concert venues are withing easy reach of Bath Spa train and bus stations.
Several Park n’ Ride schemes are also available for visitors to Bath City Centre.
St Mary’s Bathwick is served by U1 & U2 buses from the City Centre.
Saison (15 Feb 2024 - 17 Feb 2024) |
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* Bookings can be made online/by phone/by post and in person. Bath Box Office, The Forum, Bath BA1 1UG
Tel: 01225 463362 Email: info@bathboxoffice.org.uk Box Office website: bathboxoffice.org.uk
Bath Box Office will be manning phone lines during opening hours 10am – 5pm Monday to Friday (closed weekends).
Bath Box Office will be closed from Thursday 21 December to Tuesday 2 January. Priority booking for Bachfest members can only be made online during this period. General Booing opens Thursday 4 January 2024.
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