ENGLISH Wed 24 Jan — Sun 28 Jan 2018 BACH BEWERKT BACH ACADEMY BRUGES Bach rearranged — 01 — Dear music lover Festival summary Welcome to this eighth Bach than composing for religious services: WED 24 JAN 2018 15.00 Concert hall 17.00 Chamber music hall seeking the essence of music, distilling out BELGIAN PREMIERE Oxalys & Bojan Cicic Academy, with a programme that its language as far as he was able. 19.15 Stadsschouwburg Dietrich Henschel All roads lead to Bach focuses on the parody. The last ten years of his life saw the Introduction by Gloria Schemelli’s Gesangbuch p. 20 composition of the second part of the Carlier (in Dutch) p. 10 Well-Tempered Clavier, the Goldberg 19.15 Chamber music hall As you undoubtedly know, Bach frequently Variations, the Von Himmel Hoch choral 20.00 Stadsschouwburg 17.00 Chamber music hall Introduction by Ignace drew on music by other composers or his variations, The Musical Offering, the Mass Mass B Christine Busch & Bossuyt (in Dutch) own earlier work to mould into new works of in B minor and The Art of the Fugue. None Béatrice Massin & Jörg Halubek his own. The Mass in B minor, for example, of these compositions was written on Compagnie Fêtes galantes Bach. Violin sonatas 20.00 Concert hall is a brilliant interweaving of largely commission. For these works, Bach was i.c.w. Cultuurcentrum Brugge p. 11 Collegium Vocale Gent refashioned parts of earlier cantatas with driven only by artistic inspiration. They So singen wir recht das earned him nothing, and only thirty copies 19.15 Chamber music hall Gratias newly-composed passages. So although THU 25 JAN 2018 the work as a whole is made up of quite of The Art of the Fugue were printed; in Introduction by Ignace p. 21 COMMISSIONED BY CONCERTGEBOUW disparate material – stile antico, stile the end, the type from which it was set Bossuyt (in Dutch) nuovo in the German, French and Italian was melted down for financial reasons. 20.30 KAAP | De Werf styles – it is amazing how seamlessly But from that time on, silence would sound Bram De Looze 20.00 Concert hall homogeneous the Mass finally sounds. forever different. Bach and jazz Ricercar Consort i.c.w. KAAP Bach’s Stabat mater Your applause is given Monteverdi’s Vespers were formed in the The most sublime music ever devised p. 13 additional colour by the same way, and in this masterpiece he too emerged from the heart and mind of FRI 26 JAN 2018 flowers of Bloemblad. wanted to show off his complete mastery a superlatively brilliant Homo Faber. 19.15 Chamber music hall 22.30 Chamber music hall PREFACE of a variety of styles and leave a historical Bach had a formidable musical culture, Introduction by Ignace Stephane In cooperation with our SUMMARY synthesis for posterity. possessing countless manuscripts Bossuyt (in Dutch) Ginsburgh festival partner and printed versions of the works of Preludes & fugues Unlike the music of Obrecht, Gombert, Frescobaldi, Corelli, Legrenzi, Reincken, 20.00 Concert hall p. 15 The programme and the Crequillon, Vittoria and Lassus, whose Böhm, Kerll, Zelenka and Benda, as well Collegium Vocale Gent organisation of Bach masses were frequently built on a cantus as numerous other works that he had Gottes Glanz und Ebenbild SUN 28 JAN 2018 Academy Bruges are the firmus (basic melody, ed.) borrowed from copied by hand, including the organ works p. 6 11.00 Sint-Walburgakerk result of close collaboration another composer, in the Baroque, and also of Grigny and Dieupart. His library was Reitze Smits between Collegium Vocale in Bach’s work, the parody was essentially immense: he read and reread the most 22.00 Chamber music hall Bach & Mendelssohn Gent and Concertgebouw more far-reaching. Complete passages, important theological and rhetorical Winter guests p. 16 Brugge, under the with only minimal musical alterations, were treatises of his day. Quite unlike Bruckner, A heart full of music curatorship of Philippe inserted as such into new compositions. who only had two books on his shelves: the (in Dutch) 13.30 Chamber music hall Herreweghe. In the days to come, you will discover that Bible and, symbolically enough, Robinson p. 4 Fugues for dummies Bach too was a great master of this subtle Crusoe. With the building blocks he had Music lesson with Frank Concertgebouw Brugge process of ‘refashioning’. collected by dint of his boundless energy, SAT 27 JAN 2018 Agsteribbe (in Dutch) is part of REMA-EEMN, Bach constructed a new world. His own… 11.00 Sint-Godelieveabdij p. 4 European Early Music It is possible that as the years went by, and ours. But is it Bach? Network. Bach made increasing use of parody, and Benjamin Glorieux, 15.15 Concert hall ultimately abandoned the composition of — Philippe Herreweghe Heleen Van Haegenborgh Il Suonar Parlante new cantatas so as to leave himself time & Christian Mendoza B-A-C-H and energy for what was closer to his heart p. 8 p. 18 — 02 — — 03 — Context summary WED 24 JAN 2018 FRI 26 JAN 2018 SAT 27 & ZO 28 JAN 2018 16.00-19.00 22.00 Chamber music hall Wim Berteloot THU 25 JAN 2018 Winter guests Bach on carillon 10.30-13.30 A heart full of music Concert hall Free with a Bach Academy p. 9 Bruges 2018 concert ticket Open rehearsals Collegium Vocale Gent Cosy chat with FRI 26, SAT 27 & SUN 28 JAN 2018 During their open Philippe Herreweghe Foyer parterre rehearsals, Collegium and Paul Robbrecht Vocale Gent and Philippe Late in the evening - Eyes on Bach Herreweghe give us a peek after Bach Academy Exhibition by Johan Huys behind the scenes. We get Bruges’s opening In a number of richly to witness what is often concert - conductor illustrated panels, you’ll a very personal artistic Philippe Herreweghe joins learn more about the life, growth process. Concertgebouw architect career and work of the Paul Robbrecht on the celebrated Thomaskantor. Free with a Bach Academy interview couch for a cosy Bruges 2018 concert ticket chat about music and life. Free with a Bach Academy (In Dutch) Bruges 2018 concert ticket VOCAL LECTURE & DISCUSSION BACH REARRANGED BACH FRI 26 JAN 2018 10.30-17.00 Chamber SUN 28 JAN 2018 music hall 13.30 Chamber music hall Bach rearranged Fugues for dummies Listening course Music lesson with Lecturer Ignace Bossuyt Frank Agsteribbe takes a closer look at the Have you always found ‘Bach rearranged’ theme. the term ‘counterpoint’ In Dutch. confusing? Are you curious about how a fugue actually i.c.w. Davidsfonds Academy works? Never fear, Frank Agsteribbe is here! And Frank has all the answers. LECTURE & DISCUSSION After an introduction explaining the basic building blocks, he leads us through Bach’s famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor – with the help of violin player Bojan Cicic. (In Dutch) — 04 — — 05 — FRI 26 JAN 2018 doctrinal. From the story of the miraculous multiplication of bread in the gospel of St Collegium Vocale Gent Mark, the poet distilled the message that Gottes Glanz und Ebenbild the Christian who suffers on Earth will be crowned in heaven. As usual, an extensive initial chorus solo is ‘Bach provided a followed by alternate recitatives and arias. 19.15 Introduction by Ignace Bossuyt new cantata for From Concerto to Cantata The chorus Ärgre dich calls the faithful (in Dutch) not to be vexed by Christ’s humility as a every Sunday and 20.00 Concert hall When Bach was appointed Thomaskantor in human. What is typical of Bach is the artful Leipzig in May 1723, a serious task lay ahead interweaving of all the instrumental (strings holiday, four or — of him. In addition to teaching music at the and oboes) and vocal parts so that the sometimes five Thomasschule, he also had to supervise the religious message of the cantata is already Collegium Vocale Gent: ensemble liturgical repertoire of four churches where given great weight from the beginning. In the per month.’ Philippe Herreweghe: conductor music was played every Sunday and other recitatives and the arias we mainly hear two Maude Gratton: harpsichord holy days. He himself was responsible for extremes: doubt and hope. It is striking that Dorothee Mields: soprano the two main churches, the Thomaskirche in many cantatas there is an evolution from Alex Potter: countertenor and the Nikolaikirche, where he mainly negative to positive feelings: the closing duet Thomas Hobbs: tenor presented cantatas for vocal soloists, chorus Laß, Seele, kein Leiden has the character of Peter Kooij: bass and instrumental ensemble. The cantata a restrained dance. The most notable thing is came between the Gospel and the sermon the increase in instrumentation in the arias, — and alternated between the two churches as a climax leading to the close: from basso Sunday by Sunday. continuo alone (bass aria Bist du) through Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) violins in unison (tenor aria Mein Heiland, 26 JAN 2018 Harpsichord Concerto in D minor, 26 JAN 2018 From the very beginning, Bach conceived with duplication by the oboe, and the BWV1052 (1738-39) the plan of performing mainly his own work soprano aria Die Armen will) to strings (with chorus Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal. At Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV186 (1723) rather than drawing on his predecessors’ oboes) in the duet. The fact that Bach took this point Bach intervenes superbly: over the musical library. This meant that he had to his task of composing high-quality religious slow movement of the concerto for strings interval provide a new cantata for every Sunday and music very much to heart is apparent from and organ, he composed a completely new holiday, a total of four or sometimes five per the ingeniously elaborated chorales, not in chorus, one of his most profound musical Johann Sebastian Bach month.