FEBRUARY
BACH’S ORCHESTRAL SUITES Following the huge success of the AAM’s acclaimed Brandenburg Concertos project which Turner Sims presented in 2010, Richard Egarr and his musicians now turn their attention to another pinnacle of JS Bach’s instrumental music. The Orchestral Suites are a series of grand and graceful dances, paying homage to the French baroque style, as championed by the ballet-obsessed King Louis XIV. Written during Bach’s years in Leipzig, where he had a wider range of instruments at his disposal than ever before, the Suites revel in new sonorous possibilities and employ varied combinations of wind, brass, stringed instruments and timpani.
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC Richard Egarr conductor
Friday 8 February – 8pm
JS BACH Orchestral Suite No 3, BWV1068 JS BACH Orchestral Suite No 1, BWV1066
£26, concessions £25, Friends £23.40, students £13
JS BACH Orchestral Suite No 2, BWV1067 JS BACH Orchestral Suite No 4, BWV1069
TRICHOTOMY Trichotomy’s compelling, hugely dynamic trio music draws on the post-rock of Radiohead, ECM minimalism and their love of improvisation in an entrancing Australian echo of the European jazz innovations of the likes of EST or Tord Gustavsen. Truly captivating, they skilfully blend dense, exciting improvisations and delicate atmospherics, conjuring up sounds of modern jazz, ambient music, avant-garde rock, free improvisation and contemporary classical music.
Saturday 9 February – 8pm Sean Foran piano
£15, concessions £14, Friends £13.50, students £8 8 Box Office 023 8059 5151
John Parker drums Pat Marchisella acoustic bass