Cellist Rachel Scott says “It’s exciting times”. She’s talking about Bach in The Dark, a concert series she inaugurated four years ago. The series features several concerts a year in the crypt of St James’ King Street, Sydney and in regional centres. Apart from core cello repertoire by Bach, Rachel Scott has forged innovative partnerships performing arrangements of Bach…
Cellist Rachel Scott presents the second concert in the 2012 series of Bach in the Dark in mid-June. The unusual Sydney venue for these concerts is the crypt of St James’ Church in King Street. This intimate space with its low ceiling and gently reverberant acoustic complements the sound of the cello, the repertoire and the other instruments…
“Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, save perhaps two.” -Fredric Chopin Chopin may well have approved of the next series of Bach in the Dark concerts. They feature not just two guitars, but another of his favourite instruments, the cello. Chopin composed just 4 sonatas. Three were for the piano and the 4th was…