Dunedin Consort: Bach's Italy

Corelli Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 7
Vivaldi Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, RV 514
Muffat Sonata V, Armonico tributo
Vivaldi Concerto for Two Violins & Cello, RV 565
Corelli Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 6
JS Bach Concerto for 2 Violins, BWV 1043

John Butt, director

Johann Sebastian Bach may never have actually visited Italy but he certainly made the journey in music. An avid consumer and transcriber of his Italian colleagues, he borrowed their music as themes for fugues or took up their musical ideas to structure his own compositions. This concert brings his voracious interest to life as glittering and heart-breaking Italian concertos for strings set the stage for Bach’s Concerto for 2 Violins, which invites sinuous virtuosity and exquisite tenderness.

£28.50; Disabled/Wheelchair user £15.50 (inc £2.50 booking fee per ticket); Under 26s/Students/Unwaged £6; Under 18s and carers go free

Pre-concert talk with John Butt at 18:30