Awarding of the Bach Medal of the City of Leipzig

to Angela Hewitt

Dear partners, supporters and visitors of concert of the Bach Archive,

 

due to the second wave of the pandemic, all events planned for November have been cancelled. Unfortunately, all festivities planned to celebrated the 70th anninversary of the founding of the Bach Archive are are affected. The concert on the occassion of the awarding of the Bach Medal of the City of Leipzig to Angela Hewitt that was planned for 17 November 2020, 7 pm, in St Thomas could not go ahead with audience in attendance as planned. But Angela Hewitt has performed the Goldberg Variations for a recording in St Thomas that was streamed live on ARTE Concert and on the Bach Archive Facebook page and that will be available until 15 February 2021. We are hopeful that Bach enthusiasts all around the world have enjoyed the concert and that all who planned to visit in person will feel compensated a little for the cancelled liver performance.

 

Ticketholder for the concert are asked to return the tickets to where they have bought them to receive a refund. The shop of the Bach Museum will be open Tue to Sat from 10 am to 5 pm. Ticketholders who bought their tickets via internet will be notified by Eventim about the refunding procedure.

 

We thank you for your goodwill and wish you health


Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter Wollny (director of the Bach-Archiv Leipzig)
Prof. Dr. Michael Maul (artistic director of the Bachfest Leipzig)
Christina Katrin Ahlmann (acting managing director of the Bach-Archiv Leipzig)

 

The project is part of the culture programme related to Canada’s Guest of Honour presentation at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2020/2021. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Government of Canada.

Since her youth, Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt has devoted herself with great passion and conviction to the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach. She has long since recorded all his keyboard works and enchants audiences all over the world in innumerable concerts. For this great service to Bach’s legacy, Angela Hewitt will receive the Bach Medal in 2020. In her luggage to Leipzig, she will be bringing along the Goldberg Variations – that exceptional work by Johann Sebastian Bach of which Angela Hewitt herself has said: »There are few pieces in the keyboard literature that take us to such sublime regions.«

Foto: Richard Termine

Photo: Richard Termine

 

 

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