About the Performance
Four great musicians come together to bring Festival audiences music by Johann Sebastian Bach and his son Carl Philipp Emanuel. Bach's Musical Offering was the result of a challenge to improvise on a chromatic melody conceived by Frederick II of Prussia an Enlightenment monarch, his son's employer.
'phenomenal flautist Alexis Kossenko... bewitched us by his warm, dark and delicate way of playing... clear, light as well as beautiful and gentle.' Gazeta Wyborcza
'Three of the finest early music specialists on the scene' The Washington Post on John Holloway, Jaap ter Linden, Lars Ulrik Mortensen
