Bach at St Cecilia's Hall 1978

Date: 
Sunday, May 28, 1978
Time: 
8.00 pm.
Season/No: 
1978 season, 4th concert

Fourth 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.
Fiftieth concert in the series 'Bach at St Cecilia's'.   
The series' began in 1970 and was held each summer usually at St Cecilia's Hall, the home of the Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments.

Cello Suites.
 

Venue:

Participant(s): 

Wouter Moller - baroque cello
Colin Kingsley - clavichord

Work(s) / Composer(s) / Opus No(s): 

Programme

Suite for solo cello in C major, BWV 1009 ... J. S. Bach
     Prélude
     Allemande
     Courante
     Sarabande
     Bourée I & II
     Gigue

Three-part inventions for clavichord ... J. S. Bach
     3 (D)    11 (G minor)     5 (E flat)

Suite for solo cello in E flat major, BWV 1010 ... J. S. Bach
     Prélude
     Allemande
     Courante
     Sarabande
     Bourée I & II
     Gigue

INTERVAL

Three-part inventions for clavichord ... J. S. Bach
     8 (F)    4 (D minor)    14 (B flat)     9 (F minor)

Suite for solo cello scordatura in C minor, BWV 1011 ... 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); clavichord by J. A. Hass (Hamburg, 1763); low pitch (a' = 415Hz).