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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eighth Season - Prom 53: Late Night Bach
Performance Date25 August 2023
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time22:15
Main PerformersKristian Bezuidenhout - harpsichord, director

Iestyn Davies - vocal
Orchestra or BandThe English Concert
Set List'Cantata No.170, ‘Vergnügte Ruh, Beliebte Seelenlust’, Bach,
'Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G Major', Bach,
'Cantata No.35, ‘Geist Und Seele Wird Verdwirret', Bach
Performance NotesCounter-tenor Iestyn Davies – whose ‘utterly sublime’ singing and ‘gorgeous tone’ captivated audiences last season – returns with an all-*Bach* late-night concert.

He joins period-instrument group The English Concert (currently celebrating its 50th anniversary) for two of Bach’s solo cantatas – both composed in 1726 during his early years as music director at Leipzig’s St Thomas’s Church.

While the lovely Vergnügte Ruh gazes towards heaven, Geist und Seele marvels at a miracle of creation and God’s goodness. The bustling joy of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 for strings completes the programme.

There was no interval.

The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2023/ ),
Programme (RAHE/1/2023/ ),
Digital Photographs
Ticket Prices£8-£
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Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work12976BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eightth Season71
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/924English Concert Orchestra; 1972-; English baroque orchestra
DS/UK/5638Davies; Iestyn (1979-); British countertenor
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