Bach’s Italy

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 heartbreaking Italian concertos for strings set the stage for Bach’s Double, which invites sinuous virtuosity and exquisite tenderness from two of Dunedin’s finest.  

Arcangelo Corelli Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 7 
Antonio Vivaldi Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, RV 514  
Georg Muffat Sonata V, Armonico Tributo

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Antonio Vivaldi Concerto for Two Violins & Cello, RV 565  
Arcangelo Corelli Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 6 
Johann Sebastian Bach Concerto for 2 Violins, BWV 1043  

John Butt director  
Matthew Truscott violin  
Huw Daniel violin 

Pre-concert talk with John Butt at 6.30pm  

Included in the Edinburgh Subscription Season 

Presented by Dunedin Consort