Rhythm Across Time
Academy of Ancient Music, Wave Quartet, Bojan Čičić
Milton Court, 14 May 2026

Bertali: Ciaccona in C major
Geminiani: Concerto Grosso No 12 ‘La Folia’, after Corelli Op 5
Handel: Chaconne in G major HWV 435
Bach: Concerto in A minor BWV 1065 (arr for marimbas and strings)
Piazzolla: Concerto ‘Aconcagua’: Moderato, Presto
Festa: Variations on ‘La Spagna’ – Contrapunto 46, 88, 77 and 108
Bach: Harpsichord Concerto in C major BWV 1061 (arr for marimbas and strings)

The Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) continued its innovative sequence of concerts during its 2015/16 Cambridge and London season, a collaboration with the Wave Quartet of four marimba players, based in Vienna. In their pre-concert talk, mention was made of a shared Austro-Hungarian Empire heritage between the Croatian AAM director Bojan Čičić and the Romanian founder of Wave, Bogdan Bacanu, although the fact that the Dual Monarchy ended in 1918 suggests that the cultural link was perhaps not so strong. It could be argued that the same applied to this concert, where, I suggest, there were several cultural clashes. The catalyst for this concert was a similar combined event in 2019, also in Milton Court.

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