In search of traces

The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and the cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras trace the connections between Johann Sebastian Bach, his son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Felix Mendelssohn in their joint programme. Without the efforts of the latter two composers who preserved and revived Bach’s musical legacy, the course of European music history would have been very different, and our present-day repertoire would be missing an essential part of its foundation.

6 June 2026, Alte Oper Frankfurt
BACH & MENDELSSOHN
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century / Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello / Richard Egarr, musical leader
J. S. Bach: Suite no. 3 in D major BWV 1068 / C. P. E. Bach: Cello concerto in A major Wq 172 / F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: The Hebrides op. 26 / Symphony no. 5 in D major op. 107 “Reformation”