Bach and Lombardini

Programme:
Johann Sebastian Bach Suite No. 1 in C, BWV 1066
Maddalena Lombardini String Trio in F, Op. 1 No. 1
Johann Sebastian Bach Suite No. 3 in D, BWV 1068

Music for Awhile presents a programme of JS Bach and Maddalena Lombardini at Cambridge's Stapleford Granary.

Artistic Director of Music for Awhile, violinist Maggie Faultless is a leader of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and for ten years was the leader of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. She is Director of Performance at the Faculty of Music in Cambridge and Head of Historical Performance at The Royal Academy of Music. She and Simon Whistler co-founded Music for Awhile in 1996 as a collective of Europe’s most established early music performers, inspiring audiences with repertoire from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries using the instruments of the time. They are renowned for their adventurous programming, with a special flair for tailoring adaptations of large-scale works for intimate venues.

Music for Awhile:
Maggie Faultless & Rachel Stroud violins
Anna Curzon viola
Andrew Skidmore cello
Steven Devine harpsichord