Bach at St Cecilia's Hall 1978

Date: 
Saturday, May 27, 1978
Time: 
8.00 pm.
Season/No: 
1978 season, 3rd concert

Third of a series of nine concerts entitled 'Bach at St Cecilia's Hall', given mostly at St Cecilia's Hall in the summer of 1978.
Cello Suites.

Venue:

Participant(s): 

Wouter Moller - baroque cello and violoncello piccolo
Colin Kingsley - clavichord

Work(s) / Composer(s) / Opus No(s): 

Programme

Suite for solo cello in G major, BWV 1007 ... J. S. Bach
     Prélude
     Allemande
     Courante
     Sarabande
     Menuett I & II
     Gigue

Three-part inventions for clavichord ... J. S. Bach
     1 (C)    2 (C minor)     10 (G)

Suite for solo cello in D minor, BWV 1008 ... J. S. Bach    
     Prélude
     Allemande
     Courante
     Sarabande
     Menuett I & II
     Gigue

INTERVAL

Three-part inventions for clavichord ... J. S. Bach
     13 (A minor)    12 (A)      7 (E minor)     6 (E)      15 (B minor)

Suite for violoncello piccolo in D major ('Cello suite no. 6), BWV 1012 ... J. S. Bach    
     Prélude
     Allemande
     Courante
     Sarabande
     Gavotte I & II
     Gigue

Composer(s):

Performer(s):

Instrument / Organ Specification: 
Hass, Johann Adolph (clavichord), 1763

Performance Type:

Programme: 
Series brochure: 12 pages
Programme Notes: 

There are no programme notes.

Ticket and/or Programme Price(s): 
Season ticket (any 7 concerts) £5; Tickets £1; Student tickets 50p. Lecture and light refreshments tickets £1
Publicity and Reviews: 

Poster on blue paper giving outline details of all nine concerts.  Tickets on sale at the Edinburgh Bookshop, George Street, Edinburgh.

On p.2 of the brochure there is a list of lectures given in support of the concerts as follows: Hans Gal, 'Piano transcriptions of Bach' (20 May at 7 pm); Peter Williams, 'The new organ in the Reid Concert Hall' (21 May at 8 pm); informal disucssion with Wouter Moller of questions arising from the performance of the Cello Suites on authentic instruments (27 May at 10 pm); and Peter Williams, 'The Goldberg Variations' (11 June at 7 pm).

[Reid] Professor: 
Leighton, Kenneth, 1929-1988

Promoter:

Printer(s): 
The Summerhall Press Limited, 12a West Newington Place, Edinburgh
Notes: 

Instruments used in the concert: violoncello by Joannes Franciscus Celoniatus (Torino, 1742); violoncello piccolo by Joseph Gagliano (Napoli, 1783); clavichord by J. A. Hass (Hamburg, 1763); low pitch (a' = 415Hz)

Talk by Wouter Moller will give a talk following the recital at approximately 10 pm.