Bach & Handel - Psalms & Sonatas

Peter Roennfeldt & Friends

Bach and Handel were both gifted keyboard musicians, so it is natural that they produced many works featuring the harpsichord in both solo and accompaniment roles. The trio sonata is the baroque era's most favoured chamber music combination, but quite often Bach assigns one of the treble lines to the harpsichord, as in his rather extrovert Violin Sonata in G major. Somewhat unusually, this sonata also includes a central movement for solo harpsichord. The Handel trio sonata on this program is an excellent example of the customary combination of two violins and continuo.

This concert will feature recorder, oboe and bassoon in various combinations with the other string and keyboard players.

THE PROGRAM

Bach
Cantata 150 ‘Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich’ (Lord, I long for you)
based on Psalm 25
Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord in G, BWV 1019
Two arias from Cantata 159
‘Ich folge dir nach’ (I follow after you)
‘Es ist vollbracht’ (It is accomplished)

Handel
Sonata for Recorder and Continuo in F, HWV 369
Trio Sonata for Two Violins and Continuo in A, HWV 396
Chandos Anthem No.6 HWV 251b ‘As pants the hart for cooling streams’
based on Psalm 42

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