Rachel Podger's performances in Germany

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Rachel Podger will appear twice in Germany this month, first in a solo performance at the Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci and, with her own baroque ensemble Brecon Baroque, at the Barockfestspiele Arolsen.

In Potsdam, Rachel will be playing some of the best music ever written, or at least: for solo violin, including Bach's Second Partita with its breathtaking Chaconne. In Arolsen, she will be joined by Brecon Baroque, the ensemble founded by Podger in Wales, in the final concert of the Arolsen Festival, featuring music by Bach, Telemann and Purcell.

Concerts:

Tu 21 June 2011, 20.00 hrs
19.00 hrs interview with Rachel Podger
Potsdam, Jaspissaal (Neue Kammern Sanssouci)

'Ganz Großer Bogen'

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Passacaglia d-moll (from the Mystery sonatas, 1670)

Johann Paul von Westhoff: Partita no. 2 A major
(from: Partite à Violino senza basso accompagnato, 1696)

Johann Georg Pisendel: Sonata a minor for Solo Violin (1717)

Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita no. 2 d minor, BWV 1004 (from Sei Solo à Violino senza basso accompagnato, 1720)

Rachel Podger performs on a Pesarinius, Genua, 1739

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Sat 25 June 2011, 20.30 hrs
Arolsen, Fürstliche Reitbahn Welcome Hotel

Brecon Baroque
Rachel Podger, Dir. & Solo Violin
Dorothee Oberlinger, Recorder
Michael Schmidt-Casdorff, Traverso

J.S. Bach: Violin Concerto a-Minor BWV 1041
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
G.Ph. Telemann: Double Concerto for Recorder and Traverso

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