Riga, February 8 - April 4, 2007


The International Bach Chamber Music Festival is focussed on the intimate, the soulful, the personal. It manifests the producers' desire to reveal Bach from the "quiet side" and show that the relatively few sounds in a chamber music score can say just as much in the way of fundamental ideas, thoughts and content as Bach's major vocal and symphonic compositions.

The ancient music of the Western Europe was never performed extensively under the censorship of the Soviet Union, and once Latvia regained its independence, the people could freely, study and play the music of the past. The Ancient Music Festival was born in the 1990s, and the International Bach Chamber Music Festival joins it in the effort to preserve the professional level of ancient music performance. Students from the Academy and professional musicians each year have a chance to improve their skills with internationally recognised Baroque music authorities. In the course of the four years, master classes have been delivered by the aforementioned Kaakinen-Pilch, Schreiber, Preston, Zebley, Zahn, Utkin, Laukvik, James and Mechler, as well as by the flutist Neeme Punder of Estonia and the Vox Silentii trio from Finland.

ARTISTS:

Musica Alta Ripa (baroque ensemble, Germany)
Gabriele Hierdeis (soprano, Germany)
Duo Goliardi (Greece)
Andres Mustonen (baroque violin, Estonia)
Ramon Jaffe (baroque cello, Germany)
Aina Kalnciema (harpsichord, Latvia)
La Fenice (baroque group, France)
Arianna Savall (soprano, renesansharp, Spain)
L'Arpeggiata (baroque group, France)
Jan van Elsacker (tenor, Belgium)
Franziska Huhn (harp, Germany)
Red Priest (baroque show group, UK)
Ton Koopman (organ, The Netherlands)
Baiba Bartkeviča - Ley (soprano, France)
Pierre-Augustin Ley (baroque cello, France)
Thomas Kügler (traversflute, Germany)
Anne Gastinel (cello, France)


PROGRAM:

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Opening concert of the Festival
Musica Alta Ripa (baroque ensemble, Germany), Gabriele Hierdeis (soprano, Germany)
20.00 House of Blackheads, Ratslaukums 7
Programme: J.S.Bach, G.F.Handel Cantatas. G.F.Telemann.

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

The pupils of E.Darzins music school play J. S. Bach
18.00 Museum of Riga History and Navigation, Palasta 4
String quintet from orch. Sinfonia concertante

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

12.00-14.00 Master classes at the Latvian Academy of Music
Konstantinos Raptis (concert accordion)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Duo Goliardi (Greece) - Dimitris Kountouras (recorder), Konstantinos Raptis (concert accordion)
19.00 Reutern's House, Marstalu 2
Programme: J.S.Bach, P.Liakakis, S.Gubaidulina, G.de Machaut

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Andres Mustonen (baroque violin, Estonia), Ramon Jaffe (baroque cello, Germany), Aina Kalnciema (harpsichord, Latvia)
19.00 Museum of Riga History and Navigation, Palasta 4
Programme: J.S.Bach Suites, Sonatas, Partita

Sunday, February 25, 2007

La Fenice (baroque group, France), Ariana Savall (renesansharp, Spain)
19.00 Museum of Riga History and Navigation, Palasta 4
Programme: Music from Spain 17. cent. Un Camino de Santiago

Monday, February 26, 2007

Master classes at the Latvian Academy of Music
Jean Tubery (France)

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

L'Arpeggiata (baroque group, France), Christina Pluhar (theorbo, baroque guitare, Austria), Lucilla Galeazzi ( voice, Italy), Anna Diego ( theatredance, Italy)
20.00 Great Guild hall, Amatu 6
Programme: La Tarantella

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Jan van Elsacker (tenor, Belgium), Katia Schoemaker (piano, Belgium)
19.00 House of Blackheads, Ratslaukums 7
Programme: F. Schubert „Winterreise"

Sunday, March 14, 2007

Franziska Huhn (harp, Germany)
19.00 Museum of Riga History and Navigation, Palasta 4
Programme: J.S.Bach, D. Dowland, L.Berio

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Red Priest (baroque show group, UK)
19.00 House of Blackheads, Ratslaukums 7
Programme: „Pirates of the baroque"

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Master classes at the Latvian Academy of Music
Ton Koopman (organ, The Netherlands)

Friday, March 23, 2007

Ton Koopman (organ, The Netherlands)
19.00 Dome Cathedral, Doma lauk. 1
Programme: J.S.Bach and others

Sunday, April 1, 2007

Baiba Bartkeviča- Ley (soprano, France), Pierre-Augustin Ley (baroque cello, France), Aina Kalnciema (harpsichord, Latvia), Thomas Kügler (transverse flute, Germany)
19.00 Museum of Riga History and Navigation, Palasta 4
Programme: J.S.Bach Suite, Sonata. J.Haydn Cantata „Ariana a Naxos", Trio

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Anne Gastinel (cello, France)
19.00 Museum of Riga History and Navigation, Palasta 4
Programme: J.S.Bach Suites. Contemporary music

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