Due to lockdown the event was livestreamed from the Wiltshire Music Centre in Bradford on Avon. Violinist Rachel Podger, one of the leading Baroque interpreters, opened the festival with a lunchtime programme of music by J S Bach and his lesser known contemporary, Tartini. That evening Andrew Carwood took to the virtual stage with The Cardinall’s Musick. His themed programme, entitled Sing to the Lord, featured the music of the Baroque period by J S Bach and his forebears, alongside work by Melchior Franck, Johannes Eccard, Heinrich Schütz and Johann Pachelbel. On Saturday the cellist Adrian Brendel, firmly established as one of the leading cellists of the current generation as a soloist and for his work with The Nash Ensemble, appeared with award-winning harpsichordist Sophie Yates. They played works by J S Bach and Girolamo Frescobaldi, the latter not, perhaps, a household name today but a great trendsetter in his day whose keyboard compositions influenced Bach.
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