
Johannes Pramsohler violin
Bojan Čičić violin
Tomasz Pokrzywiński cello
Marc Meisel harpsichord
Fernando Guimarães tenor
Bach Trio Sonata in F, BWV1040
Handel Arias from ‘Nine German Arias’
Telemann Trio Sonata in E flat from ‘Tafelmusik’,
Plus works by other German Baroque composers, Janitsch, Eberlin, Fasch and Bruhns
Recently formed with four leading young period instrument players, Ensemble Diderot has already garnered a reputation for its lively virtuoso interpretations of 17th- and 18th-century chamber music.
Participants in Aldeburgh’s 2009 Spring chamber music Residencies, and including members of the Britten–Pears Baroque Orchestra, their soloist Fernando Guimarães was a stylish and assured soloist in Masaaki Suzuki’s Aldeburgh Festival performance of the St Matthew Passion.
Their programme blends instrumental and vocal chamber music from Bach, Handel and Telemann with some unfamiliar Easter cantatas.
Orford Church
8pm
Tickets: £16, £13, £7 (under 27s half price)
A rich array of sacred vocal music spanning nearly three centuries, including a welcome return from one of the UK’s leading vocal groups on their 10th annual ‘pilgrimage’, a thrilling young European ensemble and the Britten–Pears Orchestra under the baton of inspiring young conductor Antonello Manacorda.
Familiar masterpieces and rarities, the intimate and the monumental, the reflective and joyously uplifting, this is a weekend to celebrate the human voice.
‘Aldeburgh’s Easter festival is a tempting package’ FT Magazine
Friday 2 April
The Sixteen
Snape Maltings Concert Hall 7pm
Saturday 3 April
Ensemble Diderot
Orford Church 8pm
Sunday 4 April
Britten–Pears Orchestra
Snape Maltings Concert Hall 7.30pm