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Composer of the Week: Bach

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3/5. Donald Macleod looks at some of the music that Bach wrote for family and friends. Including keyboard pieces for his son and wife, a lute suite that tested his friend the lute virtuoso
Silvius Weiss to his limits, and a cantata that might have been heard at Bach's own wedding. Prelude in QBWV924
Richard Egarr (harpsichord)
French Suite No 2 in C minor, BWV813 Andrei Gavrilov (piano)
Cantata No 202: Weichet nur betrubte Schatten, BWV202 (Wedding Cantata) Sibylla Reubens (soprano), Stuttgart Bach Collegium, conductor Helmuth Rilling
Lute Suite in C minor, BWV997 Andreas Martin (theorbo)
Repeated on Tuesday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Silvius Weiss
Harpsichord:
Richard Egarr
Piano:
Andrei Gavrilov
Soprano:
Sibylla Reubens
Conductor:
Helmuth Rilling
Conductor:
Lute Suite
Unknown:
Andreas Martin
Source: Radio Times

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