The Bach Players
Concert Diary 2000
Suite in B minor for flute and strings, BWV 1067
Cantata ‘Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht’ (‘Coffee cantata’), BWV 211
Cantata ‘Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir’, BWV 131
Cantata ‘Liebster Gott, wann werd ich sterben?’, BWV 8
(Rachel Elliott soprano, Sally Bruce-Payne alto, James Gilchrist tenor, Peter Harvey bass, Marion Moonen flute, Catherine Latham & James Eastaway oboe, Alastair Mitchell bassoon, Nicolette Moonen & Kati Debretzini violin, Jane Rogers viola, Alison McGillivray cello, Elizabeth Bradley double bass, Jan Waterfield organ, Paul Nicholson harpsichord)
Wednesday 16 February
The Barber Institute, Birmingham
Friday 18 February
Tudeley Festival: St Nicholas’s Church, Sevenoaks
Ouverture in D major, BWV 1069
Cantata ‘Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust’, BWV 170
Cantata ‘Geist und Seele wird verwirret’, BWV 35
(Diana Moore alto, Catherine Latham, James Eastaway & Mark Radcliffe oboe, Noel Rainbird bassoon, Nicolette Moonen & Catherine Weiss violin, Katherine McGillivray viola, Thomas Pitt cello, Cecelia Bruggemeyer double bass, Paul Nicholson organ)
Thursday 18 May
Tilford Bach Society: All Saints’ Church, Tilford
Ouverture in D major, BWV 1069
Cantata ‘Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust’, BWV 170
Cantata ‘Geist und Seele wird verwirret’, BWV 35
(Sally Bruce-Payne alto, Catherine Latham, James Eastaway & Mark Radcliffe oboe, Alastair Mitchell bassoon, Nicolette Moonen & Rodolfo Richter violin, Jane Rogers viola, Thomas Pitt cello, Cecelia Bruggemeyer double bass, Laurence Cummings organ)
Saturday 17 June
Stour Music: Boughton Aluph Church
Trio sonata in G, BWV 1038
Italian concerto, BWV 971
‘The Musical Offering’, BWV 1079
(Marion Moonen flute, Nicolette Moonen violin, Alison McGillivray cello, Paul Nicholson harpsichord)
Saturday 15 July
St Mary’s Church, Warwick
Friday 28 July
Cambridge Summer Music Festival: The Catholic Church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Cambridge
Ouverture (suite) in B minor, BWV 1067
Cantata ‘Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet’ (‘Peasant cantata’), BWV 212
Brandenburg concerto no.5 in D major, BWV 1050
Cantata ‘Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht’ (‘Coffee cantata’), BWV 211
(Rachel Elliott soprano, Nicholas Hurndall Smith tenor, Roderick Williams bass, Marion Moonen flute, Andrew Clark horn, Nicolette Moonen &; Rodolfo Richter violin, Trevor Jones viola, Alison McGillivray cello, Elizabeth Bradley double bass, Paul Nicholson harpsichord)
Saturday 15 July
Bridge House Theatre, Warwick School, Warwick
Ouverture in D major, BWV 1069
Cantata ‘Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust’, BWV 170
Cantata ‘Geist und Seele wird verwirret’, BWV 35
(Sally Bruce-Payne alto, Catherine Latham, James Eastaway & Mark Radcliffe oboe, Alastair Mitchell bassoon, Nicolette Moonen & Rodolfo Richter violin, Foskien Kooistra viola, Alison McGillivray cello, Elizabeth Bradley double bass, Jan Waterfield harpsichord, Paul Nicholson organ)
Saturday 29 July
Tudeley Festival: St Nicholas’s Church, Sevenoaks
Orchestral suite no.2 in B minor, BWV 1067
‘The Art of Fugue’ (selections), BWV 1080
Suite no.5 in C minor for solo cello, BWV 1011
Brandenburg concerto no.5 in D major, BWV 1050
(Marion Moonen flute, Nicolette Moonen & Rodolfo Richter violin, Jane Rogers viola, Alison McGillivray cello, Paul Nicholson harpsichord)
Saturday 16 December
The Georgian Concert Society: St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh
Concert Diary 2002
Suite in B minor for flute and strings, BWV 1076
‘The Art of Fugue’, BWV 1080, contrapuncti 1—4
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, Trio sonata no.4 in C major [formerly BWV 1037]
Brandenburg concerto no.5 in D major, BWV 1050
(Marion Moonen flute, Nicolette Moonen & Rodolfo Richter violin, Katherine McGillivray viola, Joseph Crouch cello, Silas Standage harpsichord)
Tuesday 12 November
St Mary’s Church, Warwick
Concert Diary 2003
Foreign Invasions
Georg Friedrich Handel, Sonata in G minor
James Oswald, The Poppy
Nicola Matteis, Suite in A minor
Turlough O’Carolan, Sheebeg and Sheemore
James Oswald, Serenata
Nicola Matteis, Ground after the Scotch Humour
Francesco Geminiani, Lady Ann Bothwets Lament and Sleepy Body
Georg Friedrich Handel, Allemande in F major
Francesco Geminiani, Sonata opus 5, no. 2 in D minor
Georg Friedrich Handel, Sonata in D major
(Nicolette Moonen violin, Alison McGillivray cello, Silas Standage harpsichord)
Saturday 7 June
St Mary’s Church, Warwick
(Nicolette Moonen violin, Alison McGillivray cello, Steven Devine harpsichord)
Wednesday 27 August
Dartington Summer School, Dartington
Christmas programme
J.S. Bach, Air from Suite no.3 in D major, BWV 1068
J.S. Bach, Aria ‘Willkommen, werther Schatz’ from cantata BWV 36
Alessandro Scarlatti, Cantata ‘O di Betlemme, altera poverta venturosa’
Arcangelo Corelli, Concerto Grosso in G minor, op. 6, no. 8, ‘Christmas concerto’
Franz Tunder, ‘Wachet auf! ruft uns die Stimme’
Johann Rosenmüller, Sonata Settima à 4
Matthias Weckmann, ‘Angelicus coeli Chorus’
J.S. Bach, Cantata ‘Selig ist der Mann’, BWV 57
(Rachel Elliott soprano, Peter Harvey bass, Nicolette Moonen & Fanny Pestalozzi violin, Katherine McGillivray viola, Alison McGillivray cello, Elizabeth Bradley double bass, Silas Standage harpsichord)
Monday 1 December
University Chapel, Keele
Wednesday 3 December
Musicon 2003/2004: Elvet Methodist Church, Durham
Concert Diary 2004
Cantatas for Lent & Easter
Cantata ‘Widerstehe doch der Sünde’, BWV 54
Cantata ‘Himmelskönig, sei willkommen’, BWV 182
‘The Art of Fugue’, BWV 1080, contrapuncti 1—4
Cantata ‘Christ lag in Todesbanden’, BWV 4
(Gillian Keith soprano, Hilary Summers alto, Charles Daniels tenor, Peter Harvey bass, Nicolette Moonen & Rodolfo Richter violin, Katherine McGillivray & Louise Hogan viola, Alison McGillivray cello, Elizabeth Bradley double bass, Silas Standage organ)
Wednesday 3 March
Barber Institute, Birmingham
Friday 5 March
St. James’s Piccadilly, London
‘The Art of Fugue’, BWV 1080 (selections)
(Nicolette Moonen & Rodolfo Richter violin, Katherine McGillivray viola, Alison McGillivray cello)
Sunday 26 September
Warwick Early Music Showcase
Foreign Invasions
Georg Friedrich Handel, Sonata in G minor
James Oswald, The Poppy
Nicola Matteis, Suite in A minor
Turlough O’Carolan, Sheebeg and Sheemore
James Oswald, Serenata
Nicola Matteis, Ground after the Scotch Humour
Francesco Geminiani, Lady Ann Bothwets Lament and Sleepy Body
Georg Friedrich Handel, Allemande in F major
Francesco Geminiani, Sonata opus 5, no. 2 in D minor
Georg Friedrich Handel, Sonata in D major
(Nicolette Moonen violin, Alison McGillivray cello, Silas Standage harpsichord)
Thursday 30 September
Hatchlands Park, Guildford
Christmas programme
J.S. Bach, Air from Suite no.3 in D major, BWV 1068
J.S. Bach, Aria ‘Willkommen, werther Schatz’ from cantata BWV 36
Alessandro Scarlatti, Cantata ‘O di Betlemme, altera poverta venturosa’
Arcangelo Corelli, Concerto Grosso in G minor, op. 6, no. 8, ‘Christmas concerto’
Franz Tunder, ‘Wachet auf! ruft uns die Stimme’
Johann Rosenmüller, Sonata Settima à 4
Matthias Weckmann, ‘Angelicus coeli Chorus’
J.S. Bach, Cantata ‘Selig ist der Mann’, BWV 57
(Gillian Keith soprano, Peter Harvey bass, Nicolette Moonen & Marianna Szücs violin, Rachel Stott viola, Rebecca Trodd cello, Elizabeth Bradley double bass, Nicholas Parle organ)
Tuesday 7 December
St Mary’s, Warwick
(Gillian Keith soprano, Eamonn Dougan bass, Nicolette Moonen & Marianna Szücs violin, Rachel Stott viola, Rebecca Trodd cello, Elizabeth Bradley double bass, Nicholas Parle organ)
Friday 10 December
St George’s Hanover Square, London
(Gillian Keith soprano, Thomas Guthrie bass, Nicolette Moonen & Marianna Szücs violin, Rachel Stott viola, Rebecca Trodd cello, Elizabeth Bradley double bass, Nicholas Parle organ)
Saturday 11 December
St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh
Concert Diary 2005
Foreign Invasions
Nicola Matteis, Ground after the Scotch Humour
Nicola Matteis, Suite in A minor (London, 1685)
James Oswald (c.1711—1769), The Poppy
James Oswald, Serenata
Francesco Geminiani (1687—1762), Lady Ann Bothwet’s Lament and Sleepy Body (London, 1749)
Francesco Geminiani, Sonata op. 5, no. 2 in D minor
Georg Friedrich Handel, Sonata in D major (HWV 371), c.1750
(Nicolette Moonen violin, Alison McGillivray cello, Steven Devine harpsichord)
Wednesday 8 June
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Purcell and Handel
Henry Purcell: from ‘Dido and Aeneas’
Overture in G minor (possibly the overture to the Prologue of ‘Dido and Aeneas’)
‘Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment’
‘Peace and I are strangers grown’
Act 2: Ritournelle
‘Oft she visits this lone mountain’
Chacony in G minor
Dido’s lament
Georg Friederich Handel: from ‘Rinaldo’
Act 3: Sinfonia
‘Lascia ch’io pianga’
‘Furie terribili’
‘Cara sposa’
‘Venti turbini’
(Renata Pokupic mezzo soprano, Nicolette Moonen & Rodolfo Richter violin, Rachel Stott viola, Alison McGillivray cello, Alastair Ross harpsichord)
Saturday 24 September
Samobor, Croatia
Christmas programme
J.S. Bach, Air from Suite no.3 in D major: strings, basso continuo
J.S. Bach, Aria ‘Willkommen, werther Schatz’ from cantata BWV 36: bass, strings, basso continuo
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660—1725), Cantata ‘O di Betlemme, altera poverta venturosa’: soprano, strings, basso continuo
Arcangelo Corelli (1653—1713), Concerto Grosso in G minor, op. 6, no. 8, ‘Fatto per la notte di natale’: strings, basso continuo
Franz Tunder (1614—1667), ‘Wachet auf! ruft uns die Stimme’: soprano, strings, basso continuo
Johann Rosenmüller (1619—1684), Sonata Settima à 4: strings, basso continuo
Matthias Weckmann (1616—1674), ‘Angelicus coeli Chorus’: soprano, bass strings, basso continuo
J.S. Bach, Cantata ‘Selig ist der Mann’ (BWV 57): soprano, bass strings, basso continuo
(Angharad Gruffydd Jones soprano, Roderick Williams bass, Nicolette Moonen & Marianna Szücs violin, Rachel Stott viola, Rebecca Trodd cello, Kate Aldridge double bass, Nicholas Parle harpsichord)
Friday 9 December
National Centre for Early Music, St Margaret’s Church, Walmgate, York
(Angharad Gruffydd Jones soprano, Peter Harvey bass, Nicolette Moonen & Marianna Szücs violin, Rachel Stott viola, Rebecca Trodd cello, Kate Aldridge double bass, Nicholas Parle harpsichord)
Saturday 10 December
Tudeley Festival: All Saint’s Church, Tudeley
Concert Diary 2006
Mozart with a dash of Bach
In memory of Katherine McGillivray (1970–2006)
Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K 546
String Quartet in B flat major, K 458 ‘The Hunt’
5 Fugues, K 405 (from: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier II)
Horn Quintet in E flat major, K 407
(Sue Dent horn, Rodolfo Richter violin, Anne Schumann violin/viola, Nicolette Moonen viola, Rebecca Trodd cello)
Wednesday 27 September
St George’s, Hanover Square, London W1
