There is single week in Leipzig and Stuttgart. And also elche. There are currently twelve editions – two of which were not made due to the pandemic 14 years ago and are now back to normal. program integrated four concerts.
After starting last Friday with the rescue of two unpublished works by Matías Navarro, it will be cellist Coro Hernández who will give a recital today at Las Clarisas Cultural Center Convent. Earlier, at 11 and 12 in the morning there will be an educational concert for schoolchildren in the same area.
On Thursday, Nuno Kawagughi will give an organ concert with the Prelude in D minor at the Santa María Basilica in Lübeck; Galdas from Cabanilles; Prelude and Fugue in G minor BWV 535, Prelude and Fugue in Minor BWV 543 by Bach and Fantasy and Fugue for Bach by Liszt.
The week concludes on Friday in the Basilica of Santa María, with the Canticum Novum Choir and Bach’s Magnificat BWV 243 in the Musiké Hemera Orchestra under Rubén Pacheco, who is in charge of this cycle aimed at “making it public.” and Bach’s music, especially for the youngest».
Bach Week, sponsored by the City Council with the support of the Elche City Council, is held once a year after Easter, but after two breaks, an extraordinary concert was held last May. “People are asking, they’re interested, and I think it’s proven to be a musical reference,” Pacheco says.
In these twelve editions, it confirms that expectations are “met”. In fact, “We started doing this at the Church of San José and had to move the last concert to the Basilica of Santa María due to capacity issues, because it’s always full,” he explains.
Rubén Pacheco emphasizes that “we had to deliver high quality music and make it appealing to the public, that’s our goal and ideal, creating an audience, retaining people, it’s complex but it’s something we achieve.”