Event programme

Chat with ensemble Bach Collegium Barcelona Duo (ES)

Artists’ message to visitors: Our mission as artists is to become a bridge between material reality and spiritual reality. Everyday life forces all of us to remain in a materialistic perception, while art and especially music allows us to perceive other realities, other truths and be closer to the perfection of Nature. This unspoken language that we hold in our hands and musical instruments opens us a new door of expressing everything that cannot be done through words, the most beautiful and pure emotions, and to transform all the pain and suffering in relief. Sound travels fast as light, and it can transform the inside of a human being into a second. We artists, we oversee reminding everyone that we can create our own reality, we can dream with open eyes, and we know that what we imagine it can be real because of the power of trust and confidence that sound shows us all the time. Music is the oldest medicine of humankind, together with dancing. The balance and beauty change the structure of our body cells, makes order inside our minds and emotions, and remind us of the non-human reality, much bigger that our small minds.

The mission statement of the ensemble: Bach Collegium Barcelona oversees sharing year by year the huge repertoire written by Johann Sebastian Bach, mainly Cantatas. But his duty and compromise open to his instrumental works and as well to other composers that could be the nest of Bach’s ideas, they were his ancestors that influenced him, even though he had a unique role in music history. Simultaneously to their concerts in Catalonia, they are enlarging their frame, going to other countries as Germany and France. Their focus is to promote proximity between the music itself and the audience. Apart from concerts, they dedicate their time and energy to do pedagogical sessions and be an inspiration for children and music schools that are willing to create a musical community, with music and art as a service to our times.

Recording: Radio Slovenija