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JS BACH | St Matthew Passion

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JS BACH  St Matthew Passion

About This Concert

An Eastertide performance on Palm Sunday of JS Bach’s seasonal masterpiece.

Artists

Choir of Kings College Cambridge

THE HANOVER BAND

Andrew Arthur director

 

 

When
25 March 2018
3:00 pm

Where
Laren Basilica, Laren, The Netherlands
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Additional Info

The Hanover Band

HANOVER (Not Hannover; Germany) In terms of British history the majority of the music we play is from the Hanoverian period. Hanover also refers to Hanover Square in London, where Haydn performed his symphonies and arias in the Salomon Concerts in the 1790’s.

BAND (ref: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians)
‘An instrumental ensemble, larger than a chamber ensemble. Thus the ’24 violins’ of Louis XIV were called ‘la grande bande’ to distinguish them from Lully’s ‘petits violons’, and Charles II’s similar ensemble was known as ‘the King’s Band’. By extension, ‘band’ came to mean an orchestra in colloquial British usage’.

THE HANOVER BAND a period name for a period orchestra.

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