The Works Trailer
On 19 March we give you a step-by-step guide to masterpieces from Vivaldi and Bach. This performance will feature the violoncello da spalla, a long-lost instrument played here by spalla expert...
View ArticleMore seats released for ‘A forgotten cello’
We’ve just released some more seats for our previously sold out performance at Southbank Centre on 25 March featuring Sigiswald Kuijken and the Violoncello da spalla. With all seats in the auditorium...
View ArticleJohann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
His times: In Bach’s Germany, music was centred on the church which was unfailingly where its finest practitioners were found. Accordingly, and as strange as it might seem today, Bach was revered in...
View ArticleSigiswald Kuijken on Newsnight
Many of you may have noticed Violoncello da spalla player Sigiswald Kuijken, on yesterday’s edition of Newsnight. Sigiswald joined Emily Maitless to play the show out with a rendition of Bach’s Bourrée...
View ArticleSigiswald Kuijken on Newsnight
Many of you may have noticed Violoncello da spalla player Sigiswald Kuijken, on yesterday’s edition of Newsnight. Sigiswald joined Emily Maitless to play the show out with a rendition of Bach’s Bourrée...
View ArticleSpeed Interview – Sigiswald Kuijken
In the lead up to tomorrow’s concert featuring the violoncello da spalla, we spoke with director and violoncello da spalla player Sigiswald Kuijken. How did you get into music? It is as if I always was...
View ArticleSigsiwald talks about the Spalla
Ahead of our last concert featuring the Violoncello da Spalla, tomorrow night at Southbank Centre, here’s a video with Sigiswald Kuijken talking about and demonstrating the instrument. The post...
View ArticleGamechangers: A Forgotten Cello – Press Reactions
Many of you joined us in Basingstoke on 19 March and at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall on the 25th, to hear Sigiswald Kuijken and the Orchestra perform music from Bach, Corelli and Vivaldi on the long...
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