BACH RESTOR’D performances cancelled
Restoration’s 2024 season, titled French Art and Italian Gusto, was designed around two programmes highlighting masterworks by JS Bach. Our first programme, Bach & Erlebach was performed in two sold-out concerts in July. The audience response was very enthusiastic, and we went on to make a recording of the Erlebach Overture-suite.
Work has been progressing on our second programme, Bach Restord'd, but regretfully the performances of this programme, scheduled for 21-22 September, have had to be cancelled due to unavoidable circumstances. This Bach Restor’d programme featured our own reconstruction of two of Bach’s large-scale masterworks, the French Overture BWV831 and the Italian Concerto BWV971, which we have been working on for several years now. So this cancellation is particularly unfortunate, all the more because the performances have had to be cancelled twice before, on both occasions through Covid issues.
RESTORATION is one of New Zealand’s most experienced and accomplished baroque ensembles. The members of the group have been working together over many years in concerts, tours and recordings, and collaborating with numerous visiting and local artists specializing in the performance of baroque music and dance using the original instruments, styles and techniques of the time. The group’s guiding principle is that this music speaks most directly to us with its original voice and inflections, and that modern audiences need no compromises to modern tastes and demands, to gain the greatest enjoyment and enlightenment from this window into the wonderfully foreign world of the past.