Free lunch concert Bach & Zn in Stadsloket Noord
On Wednesday 18 January, Ursula Dütschler (harpsichord) and Raymond Honing (traverso) will play their program Bach & Zn in Stadsloket Noord. The concert starts at 12:30 PM. You can walk in from 12 noon.
Raymond Honing plays the traverso, a modern flute and Ursula Dütschler the harpsichord. They play the following:
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714 to 1788
Sonata in C Wq. 73 (1745)
Allegro di molto, Andante, Allegro - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 1710 to 1784
Sonata in F major (1780)
Allegro non troppo, Andantino, Vivace - Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 to 1750
Sonata in E minor BWV 1034 (1724)
Adagio ma non tanto, Allegro, Andante, Allegro
The next lunch concert is on Wednesday 15 February in Stadsloket Noord.
About Raymond Honing
Raymond belongs to a new generation of music and dedicate their energies in large part to old and new music. After 3 studies at the conservatory of Amsterdam, he started a career that spans 3 centuries of music. From Baroque on the one-valve traverso and early romantic music on the eight-valve traverso to modern music on the modern Boehmflute, with alto and bass.
About Ursula Dütschler
Ursula was born in Switzerland and started taking harpsichord lessons at the age of 5. She grew up at the conservatory in Bern with Jörg Ewald Dähler and with Kenneth Gilbert at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. In 1990 she studied at Cornell University in the United States. They won several competitions, such as the International Harpsichord Competition in Paris (1989) and the International Erwin Bodky Competition for pianoforte in Boston (1991).
About Bach & Zn
The Bach family was particularly musical. Johann Sebastian is regarded as the ‘best’ of this family. That is of course an opinion, but the fact is that he was the best known and most productive descendant of Veit (van Vitus) Bach. This primeval father spread from about 1550 to 1619. He was a miller, baker and the great-great-grandfather of Johann Sebastiaan. In his spare time he played, the cythringen, a plucked instrument that resembled a flute and a guitar.
Of Veit’s many descendants, about 40 to 50 were active in music. That is probably unique in Western music history! The last ‘musical’ Bach was Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach who died in 1845 at the age of 86 and was a grandson of Johann Sebastian. These 7 generations lived in a period of almost 300 years. During this time, music underwent an enormous development: from very early baroque to almost romantic.
Johann Sebastian was the pinnacle of the Baroque era. His sons Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philip Emanuel are sons of Bach. They lived more in the classical era (of Haydn and Mozart) and even tend towards romanticism. This style is also called the ‘Sturm und Drang’.