Bach: from organ to bow is the title of the concert that on Saturday, June 7 (at 5:00 PM) the Ensemble Locatelli will hold in the Ridotto Gavazzeni of the Teatro Donizetti, as the second event of The Center of Music, a series organized by the Teatro Donizetti Foundation in collaboration with the Department of Social Policies of the Municipality of Bergamo. Specialized in Baroque repertoire, the Ensemble Locatelli will perform pieces originally conceived by Bach for organ, specifically rearranged by its own director, Thomas Chigioni.

The concept of the program is to transfer some of Bach’s greatest organ music pages to “the other great expressive medium available to the German composer: the” string “orchestra. In fact, Bach can be considered a”“pure”“composer, whose music transcends the limits of the instrument for which it was conceived and can well be adapted and transcribed for other instruments. The” most striking example in this sense is the collection on which the composer focused his energies in the last days of his life: “The”“Art of Fugue”. Composed without indicating the instruments intended for “performance, this collection of counterpoints demonstrates how for Bach music was absolute, and how the instrument was only the means to an ultimate end, the Divine. A passionate scholar of works by composers from the Bel Paese, Bach adapted numerous Italian concertos for”“organ: Bach’s great compositional expertise and care in voice management allow for the opposite journey and the creation of new versions for string” orchestra with original arrangements.

 

The next event of The Center of Music will feature, on June 14, the Italian Philharmonic Orchestra with the show The Diary of Adam and Eve.