Bach's Salt Road
Bach’s long walk to meet Buxtehude
(Event 12: Sun 11th october 2026 5.00pm Little Missenden Church)
In Echo: Gawain Glenton cornetto, direction Bojan Čičić violin Rachel Byrt viola Emily White sackbut, violin Bill Hunt violone Silas Wollston organ
Narrator: Horatio Clare
Dietrich Buxtehude Passacaglia, BuxWV 161
Reading: Setting his course
Heinrich Isaac Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen
J.S. Bach Canzona, BWV 588
Reading: Gathering musicians
Johann Walter Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin
Heinrich Schütz So fahr ich hin zu Jesu Christ
Reading: Lower Saxony
J.S. Bach An Wasserflüssen Babylon, BWV 653b
Reading: The Pilgrim
Silas Wollston White Gold (2025)
INTERVAL
Georg Böhm Vater unser in Himmelreich
Reading: Bach in Lüneburg
Johann Paul von Westhoff Imitatione della Campane
Reading: The Cello Suites
Dietrich Buxtehude Contrapunctus II, Evolutio, BuxWV 76a
J.S. Bach Canonic Variations on ‘Von Himmel hoch’, BWV 769
Reading: Arrival
Dietrich Buxtehude Ciacona, BuxWV 160
Reading: The Legacy
Johann Ludwig Krebs Wir glauben all’ an einen Gott
J.S. Bach Canon & Quodlibet, BWV 1087 & 988
Programme Notes are available for download here and free at concert
Bach walked the ancient Salt Road between Lüneburg and Lübeck on his way to meet Buxtehude in 1705 and the music of these two towns is celebrated here in an evocative fusion of music and poetry, and of journeys real and imagined.
Bach was only 20 and at the start of his career when he made the pilgrimage but the four months he spent in the master’s company ensured the continuation of the Protestant baroque music tradition begun in the previous century. The other composers in the programme form part of that tradition and their music would have been in the young composer’s head while he walked.
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Established and directed by cornetto player Gawain Glenton, In Echo is a diverse ensemble that explores the rich repertoires of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Specialising in Renaissance and Baroque music, the ensemble also commissions and performs new music for old instruments.
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