Dunedin Consort: Leipzig 300 music by Bach and Telemann

Leipzig 300 music by Bach and Telemann
Dunedin Consort's Principal Viola John Crockatt introduces two of the works he is looking forward to playing in the Leipzig 300 concerts - Telemann's Viola Concerto in G major which was the first piece ever written for viola, and Bach's Cantata No 18 ‘Gleichwie der Regen und Schnee vom Himmel fällt’ which was scored for four violas.
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When Bach took up the position as Kantor at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig in 1723, he could hardly have anticipated the indelible imprint his appointment would have upon the future of western classical music. One of his main duties was to compose liturgical cantatas for every Sunday and feast day of the church year, and in his first four years alone he composed an astonishing 150 cantatas. 300 years on from that historic appointment, we look back at his first cantata cycle in Leipzig, and the rich creative environment that surrounded him as he made musical history.
Christoph Graupner, Overture in E flat major GWV 429
Georg Philipp Telemann, Viola Concerto in G major
Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata No 18 ‘Gleichwie der Regen und Schnee vom Himmel fällt’
Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata No 81 ‘Jesus schläft, was soll ich hoffen?’
Georg Philipp Telemann, Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt
Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata 181 ‘Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister’
John Butt, director
Julia Doyle, soprano
Helen Charleston, mezzo-soprano
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Matthew Brook, baritone
7 - 9 February 2024, 7.30pm
Perth Concert Hall | The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh | Wigmore Hall, London
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