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Bach Akademie Australia: JS Bach – A Life in Music
24 January @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm AEDT
In just a few years, Sydney’s Bach Akademie Australia has established itself as the leading ensemble dedicated to performing the works of JS Bach. Under violinist and founder Madeleine Easton, the ensemble’s focus on mastery, authenticity and originality of interpretation makes it the ideal companion for the journey of Bach’s remarkable life, from beginning to end.
Bach’s earliest cantata (his ‘Actus Tragicus’, circa 1708) is a perfect place to start, an introspective and innovative funeral cantata. In his splendid Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, written a decade later, we hear what is arguably the first ever keyboard concerto ever written.
From Bach’s later life in Leipzig, comes his motet ‘Lobet den Herrn’, one of his most joyful works, and his cantata ‘Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats’, a narrative of faith and hope in six captivating movements.
Played in intimate, acoustically excellent surroundings, JS Bach: A Life in Music promises spiritual depth, instrumental brilliance and choral splendour.
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