Jewels that Brightly Burn

Founded in 2019, Ensemble Augelletti were New Generation Baroque Ensemble in partnership with BBC Radio 3, the National Centre for Early Music, and the Royal College of Music and City Music Foundation Artists 2024-5. They are now regarded as among the most innovative and exciting period instrument ensembles and specialise in creating engaging programmes that tell the everyday stories of people living in the 17th and 18th centuries through baroque chamber music.

Describing Bach’s students as ‘jewels that brightly burn’, Telemann championed but as it is experienced within the unembellished core of our being. Bach’s skill in arranging music to inspire a new generation of musicians as they performed ‘under the orange tree’ in Leipzig. Through their letters and memoirs, this programme tells the story of Bach’s students as they became ‘jewels’. The programme includes arrangements of Bach’s joyous instrumental music alongside Telemann’s stunning ‘Paris’ quartets, and sonatas and dances by Pisendel, Fasch and Torelli.

Performers
Olwen Foulkes recorders
Ellen Bundy violin
Carina Drury cello
Toby Carr lute
Benedict Williams harpsichord

Programme:

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) arr. Ensemble Augelletti
Sonata no.5 in C major BWV529 –Allegro

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Sonata no.1 in A major TWV43:A1  Soave – Allegro – Andante – Vivace

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) arr. Ensemble Augelletti
‘French Suite’ no.5 in G Major BWV816 Allemande – Courante – Sarabande – Gavotte – Bouree – Loure – Gigue

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) arr. Ensemble Augelletti
Sonata in G minor BWV1029  Vivace – Adagio – Allegro

INTERVAL 

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Sonata no.4 in G minor TWV43:g1 Andante – Allegro – Largo – Allegro

Johann Georg Pisendel (1687-1755) arr. Ensemble Augelletti
Imitation des caractères de la danse – Loure – Rigaudon – Canarie – Bouree – Musette – Passepied – Polonois – Presto Concertino

Johann Adolph Hasse (1699-1783)
Sonata in C major Adagio

Pietro Antonio Locatelli (1695-1764)
Sonata in G major Op5. no.5 Pastoralle

Giuseppe Torelli (1685-1709)
Sonata in D minor Presto – Grave – Allegro

Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758)
Sonata in D major FaWV N:D1 Largo – Allegro – Largo – Allegro