Bach Brandenburgs!

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Jeanne Lamon Hall, Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre

January 29, 2026 7:30 pm
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One of the most recognized and popular works in baroque music

J. S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos encapsulate all the qualities that affirm his brilliance as a composer. Creativity, originality, and boldness are on display in these groundbreaking concertos whose novel combinations of solo instruments create a kaleidoscope of textures.

Tafelmusik’s JUNO Award-winning 1995 recording of the Brandenburgs was described by NPR as “lucid and refreshingly pure, like water drawn from a cool, clear stream.”

More than 30 years later, Principal Guest Director Rachel Podger and Tafelmusik invite audiences to revisit four of these seminal works—concertos 1, 2, 3 & 4—with newfound curiosity. Known as a musician who plays Bach “with an explorative sense of excited discovery” (BBC Music Magazine), Podger takes centre stage in the Fourth Concerto, with its extremely virtuosic demands of the violin soloist.

Completing the program is Bach’s remarkable organ Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat, “St. Anne,” in a newly commissioned arrangement for orchestra.

Credits & Program
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Running Time
120 minutes
Style of Music
Baroque orchestral

Guest artists

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Rachel Podger

Principal guest director & violin soloist

Rachel Podger, “the unsurpassed British glory of the baroque violin” (The Times), has established herself as a leading interpreter of baroque and classical music. She was the first woman to be awarded the prestigious Royal Academy of Music/Kohn Foundation Bach Prize in October 2015, Gramophone Artist of the Year 2018, and the Ambassador for REMA’s Early Music Day 2020. A creative programmer, she is the founder and Artistic Director of Brecon Baroque Festival and her ensemble Brecon Baroque, is Patron of The Continuo Foundation, and an Ambassador for the Learned Society of Wales. 

Rachel was awarded BBC Music Magazine Recording of the Year and Instrumental Award for her solo albumTutta sola. Recent releases include The Muses Restor’d with Brecon Baroque, The Best of Biber 1681 Sonatas, and Haydn Symphonies 43 & 49 with Tafelmusik, described as “sensational” (Early Music America). A dedicated educator, she holds the Micaela Comberti Chair for Baroque Violin at the Royal Academy of Music, and the Jane Hodge Foundation International Chair in Baroque Violin at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Rachel also has a regular relationship with The Juilliard School in New York.

Rachel Podger took up the position of Principal Guest Director of Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra in September 2024.

Performers

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
Directed by Rachel Podger

Program

J.S. Bach
Brandenburg Concertos no. 1, 2, 3 & 4
Prelude and Fugue in E-flat, BWV 552, arr. for orchestra 

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