Saturday 29.03.2025, 16:00 @ Schloss Agathenburg – Barocksaal
Concert of Early and Contemporary Harpsichord Music as Part of the Bach and Now Festival
The idea of this concert is a reflection on how music from one era inspires the music of another. For instance, we know that Johann Sebastian Bach studied the works of Girolamo Frescobaldi, and pieces from Frescobaldi’s Fiore Musicale influenced some of the fugues in Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. In turn, Bach’s work deeply impacted his successors, including his gifted son, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
Art history evolves like a chain, with each link connected to the previous one, creating inspiration or maybe also resistance. Regardless of the differences, these elements are interwoven. Moving further in time, early music, with its experimental spirit, often resonates with contemporary compositions in unexpected ways.
For example, György Ligeti’s endless textural Continuum and the works of Olivier Messiaen influenced Ukrainian composer Bohdan Syroid in his Duas Lineas for solo harpsichord, the Fantasia del IV tono by Renaissance composer Alonso Mudarra inspired Estonian composer Lauri Jõeleht to create Chant Polyphonique.
What ideas will the new piece by composer Rouzbeh Rafie for harpsichord and electronics embody? Join us to find out on March 29 at 16:00 at Schloss Agathenburg.
Program:
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583, Ferrara – 1643, Rome), Toccata decima in f from Toccate e partite d’intavolatura di cimbalo, Libro primo (1615)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685, Eisenach – 1750, Leipzig), Prelude and Fugue in E-flat minor / D♯ minor, BWV 853 from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (1722)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714, Weimar – 1788, Hamburg), Fantasia in E-flat major, H348 from Vier Stücke für Tasteninstrument (1740)
Bohdan Syroyid (*1995, Lviv), Duas Lineas, 2013
Alonso Mudarra oder Alonso de Mudarra (1508 – 1580, Sevilla) Fantasia del IV tono from “Tres libros de música en cifras para Vihuela“, Sevilla 1546
Lauri Jõeleht (*1974, Tallin), Chant polyphonique for harpsichord
György Ligeti (1923, Diciosânmartin – 2006, Vienna), Continuum, 1968
Rouzbeh Rafie, Spirit of stone for harpsichord and electronics, 2025, World premiere
More info: https://bachandnow.de/
Tickets: https://bachandnow.de/en/tickets/
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