Fri, 17 Sept
|Aix en Provence
European Heritage Days / Granet Museum
Our two artistic directors return to the patio of the Granet museum, with a very unique program. Designed by contemporary composer Thüring Bräm in which movements from sonatas by J.-S. Bach alternate with interludes by the Swiss composer.
Heure et lieu
17 Sept 2021, 19:30
Aix en Provence, Pl. Saint-Jean de Malte, 13100 Aix-en-Provence, France
À propos de l'événement
In his six sonatas for harpsichord and violin, Johann Sebastian Bach explores and delivers a broad vision of the roles and games that these two instruments can play. As in a play, each sonata gives a role to each instrument.
It is this great richness that interests the contemporary composer Thüring Bräm who indulges in a delicate and at the same time very daring musical exercise using these sonatas. His process consists in keeping intact one movement of each Bach sonata and placing an interlude between them serving as a prelude to the following movement. Thüring Bräm thus disrupts the traditional form of the concert since everything is so intertwined and so linked that the audience can have the impression of hearing one and the same piece. Resolutely contemporary, this work of interpretation and reappropriation of Bach's compositions consecrates this program as a bridge between eras.
PROGRAM
Jean-Sébastien BACH
Sonata No.1 in B minor BWV 1014 - Allegro (fourth movement)
Thüring Bräm
Interlude
Jean-Sébastien BACH
Sonata No.2 in A major BWV 1015 - Andante (third movement)
Thüring Bräm
Interlude
Jean-Sébastien BACH
Sonata No.3 in E major BWV 1016 - Adagio (first movement)
Thüring Bräm
Interlude
Jean-Sébastien BACH
Sonata No.4 in C sharp minor BWV 1017 - Allegro (second movement)
Thüring Bräm
Interlude
Jean-Sébastien BACH
Sonata No.5 in F minor BWV 1018 - Adagio (third movement)
Thüring Bräm
Interlude
Jean-Sébastien BACH
Sonata No.6 in G major - Allegro (first movement)