The concept of the Bach Chamber Music Festival strives to embrace a wealth of aesthetic, cultural and historical values. For one thing, audiences at the festival hear seldom performed interpretations of Bach's chamber music, including the compositions that were produced by the great artist's sons and contemporaries, as well as the music inspired by Bach's personality. The festival is also a cradle for new music - each year there are new works commissioned especially for the festival. The festival is focussed on the intimate, the soulful, the personal. It manifests the producers' desire to reveal Bach from the "quiet side" and show that the relatively few sounds in a chamber music score can say just as much in the way of fundamental ideas, thoughts and content as Bach's major vocal and symphonic compositions.
29.10. at 19.00 Opening concert. Paolo Pandolfo, viola da gamba
Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation
02.11. at 17.00 Sergejs Malovs: baroque violin, cello de spalla, Aina Kalnciema: harpsichord Programme: sonatas and suite by Johann Sebastian Bach
LNVM Riga Castle
10.11. 19.00 Sofija Zaiceva (sound artist, electronics)
Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, New Chamber Hall
16.11. 17.00 Georgs Kjurdian (piano)
Emīls Dārziņš Concert Hall of the National Arts Secondary School
23.11. 17.00 Icelandic Baroque Ensemble Brák, Herdis Anna Jónasdóttir, soprano
LNVM Riga Castle
02.12. at 19.00 25th International Bach Chamber Music Festival Closing Concert {oh!} Orkiestra
Small Guild