Before Bach

Early Music Day recital: BEFORE BACH programme notes

~ Andrew Benson-Wilson

Mayfair Organ Concerts – The Grosvenor Chapel
19 March 2024

Early Music Day concert
Andrew Benson-Wilson
BEFORE BACH

Conrad Paumann (c1410-1473) Incipit Fundamentum m.C.p.C;
Magnificat Octavi Toni. 2v
(From the Buxheimer Orgelbuch, c1460)

Hans Buchner (1483-1538) Magnificat anima sexti Toni. 2v

Hieronymus Praetorius (1560-1629) Magnificat Tertii Toni. 3v

Mathias Weckmann (1617-74) Magnificat II. Toni. 4v

Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) Fantasia in G; Three Fugues from the Magnificat tertii Toni

Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654) Benedicamus à 6 Voc.1624

This is the first of two related Early Music Day concerts with the titles of BEFORE BACH and AFTER BACH. The second concert, AFTER BACH, is this Sunday, 24 March at 7.45 in Christ’s Chapel of Alleyn’s College of God’s Gift, 14 Gallery Rd, Dulwich SE21 7AD with music by Stanley, CPE Bach and Corrette. Today’s concert traces German organ music from around 1460 to Bach’s youth, with a focus on music for the service of Vespers, notably the Magnificat, one of the key musical elements of Vespers in both the Catholic and Lutheran traditions.

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Early Music Day recital, Dulwich. 24 March 2024.

~ Andrew Benson-Wilson

The Chapel of Christ of Alleyn’s College of God’s Gift
Gallery Road, Dulwich, SE21 7AD
Sunday 24 March 2024, 7:45


AFTER BACH
Andrew Benson-Wilson

Andrew’s annual Early Music Day concerts usually include music by JS Bach, reflecting the fact that Early Music Day is on 21 March, the date of Bach’s birth under the current calendar. This year Andrew is giving two Early Music recitals, with the titles of BEFORE BACH and AFTER BACH. As well as focussing on music from England, Germany and France (John Stanley, CPE Bach and Michel  Corrette) published in the years immediately following Bach’s death in 1750, the AFTER BACH recital also reflects the date of the 1760 George England organ and the rather unusual concert time of 7:45 in the evening.

AFTER BACH and AFTER DARK!

The 1760 George England organ was restored in 2009 by William Drake.
Organ details can be found here.
A link to the programme notes will eventually be posted here.

The Chapel of Christ and Alleyn’s College of God’s Gift adjoin the Dulwich Art Gallery.
Free street parking.
Admission is free, with a generous retiring collection.
Post-concert refreshments.

The first of the two linked Early Music Day recitals has the title BEFORE BACH and is on Tuesday 19 March at 1:10 in The Grosvenor Chapel.