Virtuoso keyboardist James McVinnie plays from J S Bach’s extraordinary works for keyboards, as part of Back to Bach. Continuing Bold Tendencies’ cross season celebration of Baroque polymath J S Bach, we focus here on the Italian Concerto and French Overture - written by Bach as a pair, set in F major and B minor (the most distant keys to one another); showing his chameleon-like approach to the assimilation of different national styles of composition into his own inimitable writing. In the Italian Concerto the keyboard is the whole orchestra. Intricate passages are passed between imagined soloists and tutti-a tour-de-force riot for the fingers. The French Overture is a collection of dances book-ended with a grand Overture and unique Echo movement. Bach moulds and remoulds the same musical material again and again into each different dance movement, which make up the work as a whole. The Concerto and Overture are interspersed by pieces from one of the most important works in music history - The Well-Tempered Clavier. Composed in the early 1720s, this 48 piece collection spanning all 24 major and minor keys was written by Bach “For the profit and use of the studious musical youth”; they are at once delightfully imaginative, and triumphs of musical geometry. This event is supported by Scops Art Trust. Presented by Bold Tendencies. All ages.