Bach bij kaarslicht in St Mary le Strand
Londen, St Mary Le Strand Kerk
Over het evenement
Geniet van dit uitmuntende pianorecital, aangeboden door City Music Promotions, met de toonaangevende concertpianiste Christina Lawrie. Met een selectie uit Bach's uitzonderlijke klavierwerken en in de prachtige kaarsverlichte zaal van St Mary Le Strand, wordt dit een enorm aantrekkelijk programma dat je niet mag missen! Er zijn vele omliggende restaurants en bars om uw avond compleet te maken.
Christina Lawrie geniet van een opwindende en gevarieerde carrière als soliste, liedpianiste en kamermusicus. Hoogtepunten in haar carrière zijn solorecitals voor Wigmore Hall Purcell Room Leeds International Concert Season St. George's, Bristol Perth Concert Hall Grieg Concerto met het Royal Scottish National Orchestra, live optredens voor BBC Radio 3 en BBC Radio Scotland en gefilmde uitvoeringen van muziek van Beethoven en Ravel voor BBC Bitesize. Christina heeft een groot aantal onderscheidingen gewonnen op nationaal en internationaal niveau. Ze was finaliste in de Royal Overseas League Piano Competition in Londen, de Madrid International Piano Competition " Compositores de España" en prijswinnaar op de Marsala International Piano Competition.
Programma
- Johann Sebastian Bach – Little Preludes (selection)
- Johann Sebastian Bach – Partita No. 1 in B flat Major
- Johann Sebastian Bach – Partita no 6 in E minor
Kunstenaars
| Piano: | Christina Lawrie |
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Johann Sebastian Bach
The name Bach and the word musician had long been synonyms in Germany as the world saw 56 musicians from this kin. But it was Johann Sebastian Bach, a genius composer and virtuoso organ player, who shed lustre on his family name. He was born on th 31st of March 1685 in Eisenach, a small town in Thuringia. At the age of 10 he became an orphan and was brought up by his elder brother Johann Christoph, who was an organist in a neighbouring town. His brother was the one to teach music to the young Johann Sebastian. Later he moved to Luneburg where he attended a church school and mastered the techniques of playing violin, viola, piano and organ by the age of 17. Besides that, Bach was a choir singer and later after his voice broke he became a chanter’s assistant. In 1703 Bach was hired as a court musician in the chapel of Duke Johann Ernst III. He earned such a good reputation there that he was later invited to Arnstadt to be an organist at the New Church, where he wrote his best organ works. In 1723 he moved to Leipzig to be a chantor at St. Thomas Church where he stayed until his death of a stroke in 1750. In the year of his death he had undergone unsuccessful eye surgery which lead him to lose his eyesight. During that strenuous time his second wife Anna Magdalena helped him to write his last musical pieces. Bach’s artistic legacy is vast. He created compositions in all genres of the time: oratorias, cantatas, masses, motets, music for organ, piano and violin.
Adres
St Mary Le Strand Kerk, Strand, Londen, Verenigd Koninkrijk — Zie op Google Maps
