Bach & Jazz

So you think classical music is boring and dull? Does Johann Sebastian Bach remind you of some weird guy with false hair who had lived long ago only?

That is so far from what it all actually means!

The «Bach Contemporary» festival will definitely prove you wrong! We have gathered the best works of this composer together with your favorite works of classical music by composers from around the world, popular hits, so you can charge the most magical time of the year with wonderful music from virtuoso musicians! 

See you in the Lviv National Philharmonic!

Artists:

• Maksym Sydorenko, organ (Kyiv)
• Olga Kuts, graphics

Program:

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
  • Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
  • Pastorale in F major, BWV 590
  • Prelude and Fugue in a minor,  BWV 543
• Johann Sebastian Bach – John Lewis (1920 – 2001). Two preludes from The Well-Tempered Clavier: in F♯ major –  №13, in Des ♯ major –  № 3
• Johann Sebastian Bach – Maxym Sydorenko (1920 – 2001). Choral Preludes on “Nun komm’, der Heiden Heiland”:
  • Nun komm’, der Heiden Heiland BWV 659 a 2 Clav. e Pedale
  • Nun komm’, der Heiden Heiland BWV 661 in Organo pleno
• Johann Sebastian Bach. Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532
• Alec Templeton (1909 –1963). “Bach goes to town”
• Johann Sebastian Bach.  Organ Concerto in G major (arrangement of a lost violin concerto by Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar: Tempo giusto – Grave – Presto)
• George Shearing  (1919 – 2011). “Get off my Bach”
• Ihor Yakushenko (1932 – 1999). “When Bach Smiles”