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JS Bach was largely a self-taught composer and throughout his life he learnt by transcribing the music of his contemporaries. As part of our exploration of JS Bach's music across the 2016-17 season, this programme brings together works by several of those he learnt from and admired including Albinoni, Vivaldi and A Marcello.
At the time of its composition, Bach's Italian Concerto was described as the most perfect example of a concerto for a single instrument by a contemporary critic and pays clear homage to Vivaldi. The music for solo oboe in the programme shows how it came to be regarded as the jewel in the crown of a baroque orchestra with a sound that could hold its own against the more rowdy trumpet, but at the same time match the flexibility and sonority of the human voice.
(Free pre-concert talk at 6.30pm)
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