Bach: Mahan Esfahani & Britten Sinfonia

Mahan Esfahani harpsichord/director 

Jacqueline Shave violin/director 

Britten Sinfonia 

JS Bach Orchestral Suite No. 2 BWV 1067 

JS Bach Keyboard Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052 

JS Bach Keyboard Concerto in E major, BWV 1053 

JS Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 BWV 1050 

The twenty-first century’s leading champion of the harpsichord joins the East of England’s internationally renowned orchestra to perform uplifting and era-defining keyboard concertos.

Bach’s boundless creativity is also on view in his second orchestral suite, which doubles as a flute concerto, and the fifth Brandenburg, which bursts the seams of the baroque concerto grosso genre with a staggeringly virtuosic harpsichord solo, laying the groundwork for the nineteenth-century piano concerto. 

Britten Sinfonia’s democratic, conductor-less approach to music-making is the perfect match for Bach, with this performance directed from their instruments by Esfahani and violinist Jacqueline Shave.

“One of our most innovative and vital ensembles” – The Guardian on Britten Sinfonia