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The Bach Dynasty, Academy of Ancient Music, Wigmore Hall | reviews, news & interviews

The Bach Dynasty, Academy of Ancient Music, Wigmore Hall

The Bach Dynasty, Academy of Ancient Music, Wigmore Hall

Richard Egarr takes a look at the beginnings of the Bach dynasty

Sexing up the Bach family (a little bit): Richard Egarr

No, not some crazy remake of an Eighties soap featuring various members of the Bach family (though I wouldn’t put it past certain channel programmers to come up with the idea), but the Academy of Ancient Music’s (AAM) new series of concerts, which in a nutshell gives them the chance to perform lots of Johann Sebastian, with two bookend concerts covering the befores and the afters, as it were. Bound to get the crowds in and looks nice on the posters.

No, not some crazy remake of an Eighties soap featuring various members of the Bach family (though I wouldn’t put it past certain channel programmers to come up with the idea), but the Academy of Ancient Music’s (AAM) new series of concerts, which in a nutshell gives them the chance to perform lots of Johann Sebastian, with two bookend concerts covering the befores and the afters, as it were. Bound to get the crowds in and looks nice on the posters.

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