The focus for Music for Galway’s 41st International Concert Season, which was launched this week, is on Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).

Announcing the season, the organisation’s Artistic Director Finghin Collins spoke of the composer’s enormous legacy.

“Beethoven called him ‘the immortal god of harmony’ and it is no exaggeration to say that Bach has influenced every composer who followed him,” Finghin stated.

This decision arose from Music for Galway’ s (MfG) 2021 Midwinter Festival which focused on Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Those concerts, which were presented online due to Covid, included  Dimitri Sitkovetsky’s arrangement of the Goldberg Variations for string trio.

The 2022-23 season opens with that very work, performed by the very same performers; Alexander Sitkovetsky on violin, Sergey Malov on viola and Natalie Clein on cello. That’s on Thursday, September 28, at the Emily Anderson Concert Hall at University of Galway and it will also be on the following night at Christ Church, Portumna, starting at 8pm both evenings.

Throughout the season MfG will present Bach’s instrumental music in a series of concerts. These will variously feature baroque violin and harpsichord with Maya Homburger and Malcolm Proud;  modern violin with Tedi Papavrami;  guitar with Sean Shibe; and modern piano with Cédric Pescia. Each concert will also feature other composers who were influenced by Bach. In late March the Irish Baroque Orchestra conducted by Peter Whelan will present Bach’s St. Matthew Passion at Galway Cathedral.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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