BHS: Trip the Light Fantastic

Musicians:
Justyna Kreft

Description

The programme is in fact an elegant overview of various dances that starts in Renaissance to end up in early – classical pieces of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. The purpose of the concert is to show a progress in understanding of the dace in the music of German and Polish composers of those times. The remarkably clear dance elements in the pieces of Jan z Lublina find their echo in Chaconne with the masterly harpsichord variations by Handel. Finally, the idealistic polonaises by W.F Bach lost with their tempo following the deep expression and individualism of the piece, forgetting about former dance exactness. These last pieces turn to be much closer to fantasies than to a dance. Hence the direct transition to the sophisticated fantasies of Empfindsamer still which are the culmination of the concert.

Programme
Jan Podbielski (1680-1730)
Prelude d minor

Jan z Lublina (16th century)
Polish dances, selected from Organ Tablature

Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727-1756)
2 Polonaises

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784)
2 Polonaises F 12: e-minor no 8 & f minor No 10

Fantasie a-moll F 23

Carl Phillipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Fantasie f sharp minor Wq 67

Württembergische Sonate e minor Wq 49/3

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Chaconne con Variazioni G-dur HWV 435