BACH MEDITATION

Dato/tid
08.04.2018
16:00 – 20:00

Maya Homburger, baroque violin

Barry Guy, double bass

An experiment with sound colours and transparency

“As opposed to “performing” in a normal concert situation, I would like to explore Bach’s wonderful solo pieces TOGETHER with the audience, who is free to come, stay, and go during the three to four hours. My hope is, to reach deeper into the music and experience transformations, revelations, which result from a particular concentrated LISTENING on both sides.

MEDITATION is also the practise of peacefulness and gentleness.

Whilst practising in my studio, I had the revelation that if EVERY SINGLE NOTE in the Bach Solo Sonatas and Partitas is played, as if a whole world would be enclosed in it, the whole “soli deo gloria” not just in the music as a composition , the harmonies, the structure, the relationship of each bar to the next, but in EVERY single note itself – in its colour, its length, sound, depth, its floating in space – then I might reach an even more meditative space and a place where time seems to stop and one gets to the core of the music or perhaps existence itself.

From time to time , I will also play with Sordino (Mute) in order to experience some of the movements in an even more relaxed and subtle way. An approach which is very close to what Bach seems to have done himself, since he often played these works on the clavichord, which is one of the softest and most intimate instruments in the world.

For this project I will be joined by my husband Barry Guy on double bass who will occasionally insert a short improvisation between the Sonatas and Partitas and also add colorations to several solo pieces composed by György Kurtág which will fit beautifully into this meditative approach to Bach.

Wherever I will play Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas in this way, we all together will hopefully discover new dimensions of this deeply spiritual music.”

– Maya Homburger

Tickets: 80 dkk / students 50 dkk

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Prel program:

Veni Creator Spiritus (hymn 9th century)

H. I.F. Biber (1644-1704) “Annunciation” from the Mystery Sonata I

György Kurtág (*1926) Hommage à J.S.B.

J.S. Bach BWV1004 d – minor Allemande

György Kurtág “Thus it happened”

J.S. Bach BWV1001 G minor Adagio – Con Sordino

György Kurtág “In Memoriam László Mensáros”

J.S. Bach BWV1023 Präludium and Adagio from the sonata in e minor

Barry Guy “Peace Piece” Bass Solo

H. I.F. Biber Mystery Sonata Nr 9 with Interlude by Barry Guy

J.S. Bach BWV1003 A minor Sonata : Grave, Fuga, Andante, Allegro

short interval

Bass Solo “Still”

György Kurtág “…féerie d’automne…”

Veni Creator Spiritus (hymn 9th century)

György Kurtág “Perpetuum Mobile”

J.S. Bach BWV1004 d minor Partita Allemanda, Corrente, Sarabanda, Giga, Ciaccona

short interval

Barry Guy Bass Improvisation

J.S. Bach BWV1002 b minor Partita Sarabanda

Barry Guy Bass Improvisation

J.S. Bach Sarabande / Double

Barry Guy “Aglais” for solo violin and improvising bass

György Kurtág “Elegie” and “Roundelay”

H.I.F. Biber Passacaglia for solo violin “Guardian Angel Sonata”

short interval

Barry Guy “Celebration” for Solo Violin with improvising Bass

Bass Interlude and “Whistling” from “Tales of Enchantment”

György Kurtág “Hommage à John Cage”

J.S. Bach BWV1002 B minor Partita: Allemanda / Double, Correnta / Double Presto,Sarabanda / Double, Tempo di Borea / Double

Barry Guy Bass Improvisation

J.S.Bach BWV1001 G minor Sonata: Grave, Fuga, Andante, Allegro