Concerts in the Summer Hall · 2018 Season

A musical journey through Europe

Many composers of the 16th to 18th century were well regarded not only in their home countries but throughout Europe.

Johann Sebastian Bach knew how musicians composed in France, how operas were written in Italy; his organ works follow the tradition of Dutch and North German composers. The German George Frederick Handel was known as English composer of Italian music. Georg Philipp Telemann managed to combine influences of many origins: French, Italian, even Polish musical traits can be found in his works. Johann Christian Bach, the youngest of Bach’s sons, who perfected hin musical education in Italy was also known as »London Bach«.

Regional differences between centres of music like Venice and Paris, Rome and London or Naples and Leipzig were great. Music life at courts in Vienna, Dresden or Berlin was shaped by Italian musicians and composers that had been enganged. The development of a public music scene besides courts in England meant that music from Italy and France could be heard in concerts. But despite the pre-eminence of Italian music, »national« styles of music developed in many European countries.

In this year’s concerts you will find programmes with music by virtuosos and composers like the French harpsichordist François Couperin who influenced generations of composers, his compatriot Jean-Philippe Rameau, the Dutch master Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck, the English lutenist John Dowland and well-known German composers like Heinrich Schütz, Carl Heinrich Graun, Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries.

You are cordially invited to visit our concerts.

You can buy tickets for the concerts in our calendar of events.

Sun, 21.01.2018, 3.00 pm: Improvisation from Renaissance to Baroque

Students of the University for Music and Theatre »Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy« Leipzig, department for ancient music, improvise led by Panos Linakis and Martin Erhardt.

Tickets: € 15,00 / reduced: € 10,00

Sun, 25.02.2018, 3.00 pm: Music trail salon

Works by J. van Eyk, J. S, Bach, C. Debussy a. o.

Flautissimo Leipzig
Ulrike Wolf, Johanna Baumgärtel, Anne-Kathrin Ludwig, recorders, transverse flute, tambourin

Tickets: € 15,00 / reduced: € 10,00

Sun, 25.03.2018, 3.00 pm: Masters of Baroque music from Central Germany

J. S. Bach: Kanon zu vier Stimmen, BWV 1073 · G. P. Telemann: Quartett F-Dur, TWV 43: F1 · J. S. Bach: Kanon zu sechs Stimmen, BWV 1076 · J. G. Janitsch: Quartett g-Moll · J. S. Bach: Kanon zu vier Stimmen und Bass (»Soggetto«), BWV 1077 · J. G. Janitsch: Quartett Es-Dur

Camerata Bachiensis (Ensemble in residence of the Bach Museum)
Roberto De Franceschi, oboe, transverse flute
Anne Kaun, violin, viola
Magdalena Schenk-Bader, violin, viola
Philipp Weihrauch, violoncello
Julia Chmielewska-Ulbrich, harpsichord, organ

Tickets: € 15,00 / reduced: € 10,00

Sun, 22.04.2018, 3.00 pm: Virtuoso Sonatas

Works by C. P. E. Bach, J. C. F. Bach, J. S. Bach, C. H. Graun a. o.

Davit Melkonyan, violoncello
Mikayel Balyan, harpsichord

Tickets: € 15,00 / reduced: € 10,00

Sun, 06.05.2018, 3.00 pm: From Anna Magdalena Bach’s »Notenbüchlein« and spring songs

Alexandra Röseler, presentation, mezzosoprano, harpsichord
Future and former members of the St. Thomas’s Boys Choir

Tickets: € 15,00 / reduced: € 10,00

Sun, 20.05.2018, 3.00 pm: Ludi musici – Organ and consort in dialogue

Works by S. Scheidt, J. P. Sweelinck, H. Schütz a. o.

Marais Consort
Hans- Georg Kramer, Brian Franklin, Katharina Holzhey, Irene Klein, violas da gamba
Ingelore Schubert, organ

Tickets: € 15,00 / reduced: € 10,00

Wed, 11.07.2018, 8.00 pm, Altes Rathaus: Opening Concert

Opening concert of the XXIst Leipzig International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition

Works by C. P. E. Bach, A. Vivaldi and J. S. Bach

Robert Levin, harpsichord
Adrian Rovatkey, bassoon
Leipziger Barockorchester
Konstanze Beyer, concert master

Tickets: € 20,00 / reduced: € 15,00

Sat, 21.07.2018, 8.00 pm, Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Großer Saal: Prize Winners’ Concert

Prize Winners’ Concert of the XXIst Leipzig International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition

Works by J. S. Bach a. o.

Prize winners of the Bach Competition in the disciplines piano, harpsichord and violin/Baroque violin, Mendelssohn Kammerorchester, Pauliner Barockensemble, Leipziger Barockorchester

Tickets: € 25,00 / reduced: € 18,00

Sat, 28.07.2017, 8.00 pm, Thomaskirche: In memoriam

Concert on the 268th anniversary of Bach’s death

Johann Sebastian Bach: Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit, BWV 668
Johann Bach: Unser Leben ist ein Schatten
Johann Christoph Bach: Es ist nun aus
Johann Michael Bach: Herr, wenn ich dich nur habe
Johann Sebastian Bach: Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben, BWV 102
Johann Sebastian Bach: Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229
Johann Sebastian Bach: Messe F-Dur, BWV 233
Johann Sebastian Bach: Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit, BWV 668

Soloists
Leipziger Cantorey
Sächsisches Barockorchester
Nicolas Berndt, organ
Thomaskantor Gotthold Schwarz, conductor

A cooperation between MDR Musiksommer, Bach-Archiv and Thomaskirche Leipzig
Tickets: € 33,00 | 24,00 | 14,00 / reduced: € 26,00 | 19,00 | 11,00
Tickets at http://mdr-tickets.de and in the Thomasshop

Sun, 16.09.2018, 3.00 pm: Bach and Rameau

Works by J. S. Bach and J.-P. Rameau

L’Anima Barocca
Viola Blache, soprano
Saskia Klapper, violin
Benjamin Dreßler, viola da gamba, violone
Christiane Bräutigam, harpsichord, organ

Tickets: € 15,00 / reduced: € 10,00

Sun, 14.10.2018, 3.00 pm: Masters of Baroque music from Central Germany

Works by contemporaries of J. S. Bachs

Tickets: € 15,00 / reduced: € 10,00

Sun, 11.11.2018, 3.00 pm: On the occasion of François Couperin’s 350th birthday

Works by F. Couperin, J. S. Bach a. o.

A Prize winner in the discipline harpsichord of the XXIst Leipzig Internationan Johann Sebastian Bach Competition 2018

Tickets: € 15,00 / reduced: € 10,00

Sun, 09.12.2018, 3.00 pm: From Anna Magdalena Bach’s »Notenbüchlein« and Christmas Carols

Alexandra Röseler, presentation, mezzosoprano, harpsichord
Future and former members of the St. Thomas’s Boys Choir

Tickets: € 15,00 / reduced: € 10,00

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