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Published: 22 November 2007

The Bach Players are celebrating their 10th year

Players are Bach with second St John’s show

PREVIEW: THE BACH PLAYERS
St John’s
Downshire Hill

THE Bach Players will perform the second of their series at St John’s Downshire Hill tomorrow (Friday) in a concert that brings together works by Bach and his predecessor Johann Rosenmüller.
Bach and Rosenmüller both worked at the churches of St Nicholas and St Thomas in Leipzig, and the two Bach cantatas to be performed were written for the 16th Sunday after Trinity, the date of the concert.
The Bach Players will also play some rarely performed vocal pieces by Rosenmüller, written during his time in Leipzig, and an instrumental piece from his years in Venice.
The series was launched on September 20 with a concert entitled Bach, Arranging and Arranged.
The Bach Players’ new series will see a mix of chamber music and larger-scale vocal works. Bach’s music plays a central role, but is now complemented with pieces by fellow composers.
Plans for 2008 include a concert at Easter of Haydn’s string quartet version of The Seven Last Words, and a summer evening of music by Boccherini and Haydn.
The group, founded with the aim of bringing the music of Bach to a new audience – especially his still under-appreciated church cantatas – is now in its 10th year, having started in 1997 with concerts at St John’s Wood parish church.
Since then, they have played all over Britain and travelled to Germany and Croatia to perform.
The Bach Players are a collective of like-minded musicians, who all perform for leading early music ensembles.
When founder and artistic director Nicolette Moonen moved to Dartmouth Park she started looking for a new base for the ensemble, believing that cultural events in London need to be decentralised.
Following the success of September’s concert at the recently renovated St John’s – with its warm atmosphere and rich acoustics – she says she has found the perfect venue.

* For details and tickets tel: 020 7272 7651. www.thebachplayers.org.uk

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