Nigel Kennedy: Bach Now!

Tuesday 7 November 2023

Forum Theatre, Malvern, 19:45

Wednesday 8 November 2023

Forum Theatre, Malvern, 19:45

Friday 10 November 2023

Olivier Hall, St Edward’s School, Oxford, 19:30

Tickets £60 £42 £32 £20 (students from £5)

Sunday 12 November 2023

Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, 16:00

Tuesday 14 November 2023

Barbican Hall, London, 19:30

Tickets £65 £45 £30 £18 (no fees through OPO box office)

Bach Violin Concerto No. 2 in E major, BWV 1042

Nigel Kennedy Melody in the Wind

Bach Concerto for Violin and Oboe in D minor, BWV 1060R

Bach Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, BWV 1041

Nigel Kennedy Fallen Forest

Bach Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043 *

Nigel Kennedy violin/director

Anna-Liisa Bezrodny violin*

Nicholas Daniel oboe

Leipzig didn’t just draw the finest sacred music from Bach. When the composer took over the city’s secular music society Collegium Musicum, he produced a string of orchestral works in a flush of creativity. Among them were the composer’s violin concertos – concise, mature scores in which his characteristic focus seems somehow even more intense. Violin legend Nigel Kennedy plays Bach’s solo concertos here and is joined by our outstanding Associate Concertmaster Anna-Liisa Bezrodny for the composer’s celebrated Double Concerto with its monumental slow movement. Oboe supremo Nicholas Daniel is on hand for the ‘original’ oboe version of the concerto you might know better in its version for two harpsichords.