Concerts in the Summer Hall · 2023 Season

300 Years of Bach in Leipzig

End of May 1723, Johann Sebastian Bach became cantor at St. Thomas’ Church in Leipzig. He stayed for the rest of his life – 27 years. It seems inexplicable to us nowadays, but he was not the first choice but only had a chance when his colleagues Georg Philipp Telemann and Christoph Graupner had declined to take up the post.

Today, Bach and Leipzig form a unity. But then, Leipzig was mainly known as a university and fair trade city in the centre of Europe. Merchants from all over Europe came here and met to trade.

Bach’s musical horizon was just as cosmopolitan, just as European. He studied and played music by contemporaries from Italy and France as well as from North and South Germany. He was inspired by them and they influenced his style which over time became distinctively his own.

The programme of concerts in the historic Summer Hall as also very divers: compositions by early Baroque Italian and German master like Fontana and Grandi, Schein, Schütz and Rosenmüller, the Flemish Hacquart or the »English Orpheus« Purcell will be performed. And Bach will be at the centre in divers formats.

300 years of Bach in Leipzig – the concerts will showcase him and his world. Welcome to the the Summer Hall!

Sun, 22 January 2023 | 3.00 p.m.: Collegium studiorum

Improvisations from Renaissance to Baroque

Students of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater »Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy« Leipzig, Fachrichtung Alte Musik, led by Martin Erhardt.

Ticket price: € 20,00 / reduced: € 15,00
available here

Sun, 05 February, 2023 | 3.00 p.m.: A »Notenspur« Salon – City as Stage

Works by C. Hacquart, J. Rosenmüller, J. C. Pezel, H. Purcell, M. Locke a. o.

Amaconsort: Lea Sobbe (recorder), Lena Rademann (violin), Martin Jantzen (viola da gamba, violoncello), Halldór Bjarki Arnarson (harpsichord)

Ticket price: € 20,00 / reduced: € 15,00
available here

Sun, 12 March 2023 | 3.00 p.m.: Research in Concert – Musical Temperaments

Works by J. P. Kirnberger, J. S. Bach and J. C. F. Fischer

Marion Treupel-Franck (transverse flute), Michael Rupprecht (violoncello), Robert Schröter (harpsichord, portative)
Dr. Markus Zepf (Bach-Archiv Leipzig, presentation)

Ticket price: € 20,00 / reduced: € 15,00
Tickets available here

Sun, 23 April 2023 | 3.00 p.m.: 300 Years Bach as Cantor in Leipzig

Works by Johann Sebastian Bach a. o.

tr!jo – Ensemble für Alte Musik: Tabea Debus (recorder), Lea Rahel Bader (Baroque violincello, viola da gamba), Johannes Lang (harpsichord, portative)

Ticket price: € 20,00 / reduced: € 15,00
Tickets available here

Fri, 28 April 2023, 7.00 pm: On the settee at Bach’s home

Arias and songs by J. S. Bach as well as works for keyboard instruments by J. S. Bach and D. Buxtehude

Klaus Mertens (basso), Ton Koopman (harpsichorg, organ), Prof. Dr. Michael Maul (moderation)

Ticket price: € 30,00 / reduced: € 20,00
Tickets available here

Sun, 07 May 2023 | 3.00 p.m.: From Anna Magdalena Bach’s »Notenbüchlein«

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

Ticket price: € 20,00 / reduced: € 15,00
Tickets available here
organized by Alexandra Röseler

Sun, 21 May 2023 | 3.00 p.m.: Fiori musicali – musical treasures from Venice & Leipzig

Works by H. Schütz, J. H. Schein, J. Rosenmüller, G. P. Cima, G. B. Fontana, G. Cesare Martinengo a. o.

Ensemble La Rubina: Claudia Mende (violin), Friederike Otto (cornet), Nora Hansen (dulcian), Christoph Sommer (theorbo), Zita Mikijanska (portative)

Ticket price: € 20,00 / reduced: € 15,00
available here

Fri, 28 July 2923 | 8.00 pm: In Memorian

Concert on the 273rd anniversary of J. S. Bach’s death

J. S. Bach: Ihr Menschen, rühmet Gottes Liebe, BWV 167 · J. S. Bach: Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186 · J. S. Bach: Ein ungefärbt Gemüte, BWV 24 · J. S. Bach: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147

Aelbgut: Isabel Schicketanz (soprano), Stefan Kunath (altus), Florian Sievers (tenor), Martin Schicketanz (basso), Capella Jenensis

A cooperation between mdr Musiksommer, Bach-Archiv Leipzig and Thomaskirche Leipzig
Tickets available here and at the Thomasshop

Sun, 30 July 2023 | 3.00 p.m., courtyard: 300 years of Bach in Leipzig

Works by J. S. Bach and G. P. Telemann

Bach by Bike Ensemble: Anna-Luise Oppelt (alto), Mareike Neumann (violin), Helene Schütz (harp)

Ticket price: € 20,00 / reduced: € 15,00
Tickets available here

Bike tour from Köthen to Leipzig (27.–30. July 2023) separately bookable under: www.bachbybike.com (tour operator: Bach by Bike)

A cooperation with Bach by Bike

Wed, 06 September 2023 | 8.00 pm: Chamber music festival »Con spirito«

Transfigured Night – Leipzig romantic composers and the following generation

J. Sibelius: Streichtrio g-Moll · R. Fuchs: Duette, op. 55 Nr. 4, 7, 8 und 10 · A. Webern: Langsamer Satz · J. Brahms: Sextett G-Dur, op. 36

Andrej Bielow (violin), Tobias Feldmann (violin), Sergey Ostrovsky (violin), Marie-Therese Schwöllinger (violin), Tomoko Akasaka (viola), Pauline Sachse (viola), Peter Bruns (violoncello), Norbert Anger (violoncello), Konstanze Pietschmann (violoncello)

The concert is part of the chamber music festival »Con spirito«, taking place in Leipzig’s cultural heritage sites.

Ticket price: € 40,00 / reduced: € 30,00 (booking fee included) – tickets here

Sun, 24 September 2023 | 3.00 pm: »My wife and my oldest daugther«

The Bach women in the middle of enlightenment

Works by J. S. Bach

Angela Steidele (reading in German and presentation)
Michaela Hasselt (harpsichord)

Tickets: € 20,00 / reduced: € 15,00 (includes fees)
Tickets here

Sun, 22 October 2021 | 3.00 p.m.: Research in Concert: Goldberg – A Staged Approach

J. S. Bach: Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988 (arranged by Martin Steuber)

Combo CAM: Christine Steuber (actress), Friederike Merkel (recorder), Babett Niclas (harp), Antje Nürnberger (violoncello), Hannes Malkowski (hammered dulcimer), Magdalena Schenk-Bader (violin, viola), direction: Martin Steuber (lute)
Dr. Christiane Hausmann (Bach-Archiv Leipzig, presentation)

Ticket price: € 20,00 / reduced: € 15,00
Tickets available here

Sun, 19 November 2023 | 3.00 p.m.: Provide Your Heavenly Peace

Works by J. H. Schein, J. S. Bach, J. Hildebrand, S. Knüpfer, J. P. Krieger

L’Anima Barocca: David Erler (counter tenor), Katharina Holzhey (viola da gamba), Stefan Rath (lute), Christiane Bräutigam (harpsichord, portative)

Ticket price: € 20,00 / reduced: € 15,00
Tickets available here

Sun, 10 December 2023 | 3.00 pm: From Anna Magdalena Bach’s »Notenbüchlein«

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

Tickets: € 20,00 / reduced: € 15,00 (includes fees)
Tickets available here
An event organized by Alexandra Röseler

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Concerts in the Summer Hall · 2023 Season

300 Years of Bach in Leipzig

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