Tafelmusik | Bach’s Brandenburgs
January 29 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
One event on January 30, 2026 at 8:00 pm
One event on January 31, 2026 at 8:00 pm
One event on February 1, 2026 at 3:00 pm
J. S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos encapsulate all the qualities that affirm his brilliance as a composer. Creativity, originality, and boldness are on display in these groundbreaking concertos whose novel combinations of solo instruments create a kaleidoscope of textures.
Tafelmusik’s JUNO Award-winning 1995 recording of the Brandenburgs was described by NPR as “lucid and refreshingly pure, like water drawn from a cool, clear stream.”
More than 30 years later, Principal Guest Director Rachel Podger and Tafelmusik invite audiences to revisit four of these seminal works—concertos 1, 2, 3 & 4—with newfound curiosity. Known as a musician who plays Bach “with an explorative sense of excited discovery” (BBC Music Magazine), Podger takes centre stage in the Fourth Concerto, with its extremely virtuosic demands of the violin soloist.
Completing the program is Bach’s remarkable organ Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat, “St. Anne,” newly arranged for orchestra and premiered on Tafelmusik’s recent West Coast tour. “[The] arrangement exploited a kaleidoscopic spectrum of colour, with textures and timbres shifting and recombining across the ensemble in thrilling interplay.” (The Strad)
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