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Now imagine trying to pitch a biopic about Johann Sebastian Bach (d 1750). Though often considered the greatest composer of all time, he was a back-to-the-future boy with a missionary zest for musical counterpoint. He wrote for the glory of God not of himself. How unromantic.

Nina Raine’s new play Bach & Sons (premiered now in a production by Nicholas Hytner that moves with a terrific musicality) is typically sly, in the know and phenomenally eloquent. Counterpoint is the bringing together of two lines of music in a way that exemplifies how an honest life embraces more than one voice – playing off each other in contention or resolution. By shrewd design, Bach & Sons itself has at least two voices in contention – whether in resolution or continued argument.

_{Text Credit: Paul Taylor@Independant}

Johann Sebastian Bach, irascible and turbulent, writes music of sensuous delight for his aristocratic patrons, and gives voice to his deep religious faith in music for the church. He’s touchy, he’s fabulously rude, he has high standards (he stabs a bassoonist for playing badly) and he’s constantly in trouble with his employers.

Music is the family business – both his wives and all his children are musicians. His eldest son, Wilhelm, is brilliant, chaotic and paralysed by his father’s genius. Tense, industrious Carl is less talented than his father but more successful. As the years pass, their gripping family drama provokes furious arguments about love, God and above all music. What is it for – to give pleasure, like a cup of coffee in the sun, or to reveal the divine order that gives life its meaning?

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_{Credit: Manuel Harlan}

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, whose concertos defined the Baroque period. Bach is known for instrumental compositions including the Brandenburg Concertos.

Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany, and lived from 1685 – 1750.

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_{Credit: Manuel Harlan}

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“The moments of classical music that are really memorable for me are the ones when my adrenaline stars soaring.”
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“When someone says if there is proof of the existence of God then Bach is it, I sort of agree with that.”
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Performances of Bach & Sons are currently on sale with socially distanced seating; when government guidelines allow these performances will move to full seating capacity. 

Ticket Prices
£69.50, £57.50, £39.50, £25, £15
Previews & midweek matinees £59.50, £47.50, £35, £25, £15
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Performance Schedule
Monday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Wednesdays & Saturdays: 2.30pm

Length 
Approx 2hrs 30mins, including interval

Access Performances
Captioned: Wednesday 25 August 2.30pm
Audio Described: Saturday 21 August 2.30pm

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