{"id":6054,"date":"2014-10-09T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=6054"},"modified":"2014-10-09T16:08:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T15:08:59","slug":"bach-banquet-with-acclaimed-pioneer-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2014\/10\/09\/bach-banquet-with-acclaimed-pioneer-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Bach banquet with acclaimed pioneer next week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Internationally-acclaimed harpsichordist Trevor Pinnock <\/strong>brings an all-Bach programme to\u00a0Colyer-Fergusson Hall\u00a0next Friday, 17th October, at 7.30pm.<\/p>\n

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Image: Peer Lindgreen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A former\u00a0choirboy at Canterbury Cathedral and\u00a0pupil at\u00a0Simon Langton School, Trevor was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Music by the University in 1995, and comes to Kent next week as part of its year-long fiftieth anniversary\u00a0celebrations including honorary music graduates. As a harpsichordist and conductor,\u00a0he is renowned\u00a0for\u00a0his pioneering performances on historical instruments with The English Concert, the orchestra which he founded in 1972 and led for the next thirty years.<\/p>\n

\"50th-ribbon-sml\"<\/a>Next week’s concert includes the Toccata in E minor, <\/em>the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor <\/em>and the French Suite No 6 in E major<\/em>, and promises to be a real treat for Bach devotees. More details\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To whet your appetite, here he is in the flamboyantly-opening Toccata in C minor<\/em>, BWV 911.<\/p>\n