Fundraising Concert for Help Musicians by Oxford Bach Soloists
JS Bach: St John Passion in isolation click this link to access
This event is a benefit concert for Help Musicians. They are doing sterling work supporting musicians in this uniquely challenging period, during which most or all performing work has disappeared. OBS is inviting donations via their JustGiving Page, here: https://bit.ly/OBSSJPJG. They have a target of raising £20,000 and have achieved over £16,000 so far.
The star-studded cast includes:
Daniel Norman, Evangelist
Roderick Williams, Christ
Christopher Purves, Pilate
Mary Bevan, soprano
Carolyn Sampson, soprano
William Purefoy, countertenor
Catherine Wyn-Rogers, mezzo-soprano
Toby Spence, tenor
James Gilchrist, tenor
Nick Pritchard, tenor
Peter Harvey, baritone
Matthew Brook, baritone
Stephan Loges, baritone
Download the programme in the from that it would be printed: Download programme
This is a remarkable and innovative work with each musicians and singer working from their own home. It has taken a great deal of effort to prepare with much of this work continuing and so it is presented in 9 Episodes, all of which are accessible on the
Positive Note YouTube Channel
Regular free online concerts
Musicians Company Young Artists at 12 noon on Mondays and Wednesdays
Live concerts from St Mary Perivale at 4pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Here are some links for you to enjoy while live concerts are no longer possible (click on each line):
JS Bach Easter Oratorio & Singing the Reformation: Oxford Bach Soloists
JS Bach: St Matthew Passion, including Charles Daniels and Tim Mead
JS Bach: St John Passion: Maasaki Suzuki
JS Bach: B Minor Mass including Peter Harvey
Bach – A Passionate Life – Documentary by John Eliot Gardner
Laurence Cummings conducting Handel soprano arias – Handel’s Heroines
Swiss Bach Foundation special organ arrangements of Cantata 106
Elizabeth Cooney – short clips: Bach from Partita 3; Anach Cuain; Breval ; Ravel Tzigane ; Lark in the Clear Air
BACHTRACK is running links to a number on on-line concerts including operas
String quartet play in front garden
Castalian Quartet and Stephen Hough from the Wigmore Hall – Brahms Piano Quintet
Castalian Quartet – Beethoven Op59-2 Razumovsky
Castalian Quartet – Mozart K.465 Dissonance
Collections
Chamber music concerts (mostly piano based) from St Mary Perivale (Vimeo)
Individual pieces from St Mary Perivale (YouTube)
Full length Bach Cantatas from Bach Stiftung (Trogen Switzerland)
Netherlands Bach Society – many videos not only cantatas
Focus on a historical performer: Tatiana Nikolaeva – the pianist friend of Shostakovich
and some fun: Beethoven Line Riders, Mozart Line Riders
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Clips of some of our recent performers
Will Duerden: Bottessini Grand Duo Concertant; Tabakov Motivy; Tubin Concerto at Haslemere
Ana Docolin: Mozart Bassoon Concerto
Castalian String Quartet: Collection; Beethoven Razumovsky No2; Haydn Op76-2
Brook Street Band: Collection
Ensemble Mirage: Nemtsova – an extraordiary modern piece that inlcudes variations on On Come, Oh come Emmanuel
Alexandra Lomeiko: Joachim/Bach/Ysaye ; Dvorak Piano Quintet
Solem Quartet: Schubert Quartetsatz
Piatti Quartet: Haydn Op76-3 Emperor
Yuri Zhislin & Natalia Lomeiko: Halvorsen Passacaglia