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Bach, JC Bach, JL Bach and Kuhnau
Les Arts Florissants
Date
Tue 27 Mar 2018, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
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Artists

  • Les Arts Florissants
    • Paul Agnewdirector, tenor
    • Maud Gnidzazsoprano
    • Natasha Schnursoprano
    • Mélodie Ruviocontralto
    • Bruno Le Levreurcountertenor
    • Cyril Costanzobass
    • Anicet Castelbass
    • Nicholas Scottbass
    • Paul Carliozcello
    • Richard Myronviolone
    • Benoît Hartoinorgan

    Programme

    • Johann Sebastian Bach
      1685-1750
        • Komm, Jesu, komm BWV229
        • Motet: Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn BWV Anh.159

    Interval

    Overview

    As so often during his career, Bach took an establishedmusical genre – the motet – and raised it to perfection.

    PaulAgnew directs singers and continuo players from Les ArtsFlorissants in six of Bach’s surviving motets, setting themalongside Fürchte dich nicht by his cousin Johann ChristophBach and the deeply touching Tristis est anima mea by hissuccessor in Leipzig.

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