Date/Time
Date(s) - 13th Jan 2027
14:00-15:30
Location
St Matthew's Church
Categories
JS Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos are amongst the most popular pieces of classical music, with scores of recordings currently available. Yet for almost two centuries these remarkable pieces of music remained hardly known beyond a few scholars and enthusiasts, locked away in private libraries. Even today live concert performances of them are relatively rare, with just one live performance of all six concertos taking place in the UK in the last six months. Dr Tim Brain will explore how and why these extraordinary concertos were composed, what happened to them in the decades that followed, how they came to light and how they have come to dominate recordings of eighteenth century music.
After a career in policing, in which he served in several forces and was Chief Constable of Gloucestershire from 2001-10, Dr Timothy Brain has since been a prominent lecturer, broadcaster and author. He is a regular broadcaster and popular lecturer on subjects ranging from policing, history, military history, and music, and has written three major works on policing, in addition to editing his late uncle’s war memoirs, The Gloucestershire Regiment in Europe 1944-45, published by the Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum in 2019.
Location: St Matthews Church, 44 Clarence St, Cheltenham GL50 3PL
Cost per person including tea/coffee and cake: FoTW members £11, non-members £13
Non-members welcome.
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