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...(I particularly enjoyed Judith LeClair, standout bassoonist, and Matt Zucker, whose stellar viola da gamba playing was a delight.)...
...This is not a new idea — the BBC Proms did something similar for Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos — but Fryer’s clean-cut Bach dovetails nicely with some imaginative responses from Samuel Becker, Julian Broughton...
...The five-person dance opens to the slow movement of Bach’s sixth trio sonata, arranged for cello, bass and pizzicato mandolin....
...Among his students who have gone on to make their names are composers as diverse as Thomas Adès, George Benjamin, Jonathan Dove and Judith Weir....
...During this same trip, he listened to a Bach cello suite, and knew that “never before has a piece of music pierced me as deeply . . . one might glean the very meaning of life . . . I became the cello”....
...But it was the liquid grace of “Laudate Dominum”, flaunting Judith van Wanroij’s honeyed soprano, that left the most lasting impression....
...provides a detailed study of the choral masterpieces Bach produced as cantor, organist and teacher at Leipzig in the early 18th century....
...’s concert in Christ Church should be a bigger draw: the Calefax reed quintet will perform the world premiere of Matthew Shlomowitz’s Line and Length, a piece commissioned by the festival to respond to Bach...
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