Incantati
Counting The Hours
JS Bach's Goldberg Variations and other music of nighttime
Incantati, with Satoko Doi-Luck (harpsichord) and Daniel Gilchrist (narrator)
The programme includes some medieval canons by John Dunstable, Guillaume de Machaut, Niccolo da Perugia and Anonymous, which follow the same format as the Bach canons – two canonic voices over a free bass – but each has a different 'twist' to the canonic concept, just as each of Bach's canonic Variations is at a different interval.
Counting the Hours also includes 'music of nighttime' from Leoš Janáček's set of piano pieces On the Overgrown Path: The Little Owl Continues Screeching, So Unutterably Anxious, and Good Night. Bizarre as the inclusion of Janáček arrangements in a programme of Bach might seem, it does have a rationale, since Janáček was a keen composer for viola d'amore.
Wed, 28 January 2026
The Recital Hall, Churchill College
7:30pm
Free- ➕1 other performance
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Ever experienced a sleepless night? Incantati presents JS Bach's miraculously crafted Goldberg canons as a soothing balm to our nocturnal qualms in the context of canons from the Middle Ages through to Bach's time.
The programme includes some medieval canons by John Dunstable, Guillaume de Machaut, Niccolo da Perugia and Anonymous, which follow the same format as the Bach canons – two canonic voices over a free bass – but each has a different 'twist' to the canonic concept, just as each of Bach's canonic Variations is at a different interval.
Counting the Hours also includes 'music of nighttime' from Leoš Janáček's set of piano pieces On the Overgrown Path: The Little Owl Continues Screeching, So Unutterably Anxious, and Good Night. Bizarre as the inclusion of Janáček arrangements in a programme of Bach might seem, it does have a rationale, since Janáček was a keen composer for viola d'amore.
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Location
The Recital Hall, Churchill College
Churchill College, Cambridge CB3 0DS
Other performances
In addition to the performance listed above, this concert will also be performed as follows:
Sands Films Music Room