SATURDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2011, 7.45pm, St Cecilia's Hall

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Bach Players - Lully and Corelli: friends or foes?

The Bach Players present a new programme highlighting the ‘battle of the styles’ in music from France and Italy in the late 17th and early 18th centuries by its protagonists – Corelli, Muffat, Lully, Rebel and Couperin. Through this music for strings and harpsichord, they explore music with which Bach would have been familiar and by which he was influenced. A wonderful evening of French and Italian baroque.

Their concerts strike me as a gathering of friends, on which the audience eavesdrops, an atmosphere that produces consistent outstandingly musical performances - Andrew Benson Wilson, Early Music Review