Early Music Vancouver will present the 2022 Vancouver Bach Festival – Scottish Baroque and Other Traditions from Tuesday, July 26 to Saturday, August 6 at various venues including The Chan Centre, Christ Church Cathedral, Pyatt Hall, VanDusen Botanical Garden, The Wolf & Hound, and UBC's Sage Bistro.
Academy of Ancient Music
This concert, directed from the harpsichord by Laurence Cummings, director designate of the AAM, was titled Suonare è danzare – to play is to dance. There was certainly plenty of dance. Georg Muffat’s Sonata no.5 in G major ‘Armonico Tributo’ used the full complement of players – two each of violins and violas, cello, bass, theorbo and of course Cummings, with Bojan Čičić as first violin. They produced a rich, noble sound in the opening Allemande and the two Adagio movements, and sprightly dotted rhythms in the fugue, with some splendid fruity contributions from cello and bass.