Some twenty years after the collection known as Das wohltemperierte Klavier J.S. Bach assembled his second collection of twenty-four preludes and fugues in all keys, completing one of the greatest achievements in keyboard music that today remains one of the crowning glories of the genre. Steven is delighted to announce the release of this completion […]
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Tickets on sale for a Live Concert!
Kate Semmens (soprano) and Steven are doing a one-hour concert for a socially-distanced audience at Little Mill Oast in Marden on Sunday 20th September at 3pm. Please come and help us celebrate a return to live music-making for an audience! Numbers are VERY limited and details and tickets are here: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/505128
Green Shoots of Musical recovery….
An immensely important and emotional experience happened last Saturday (20th June) when the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenement reconvened for the first time since Lock-Down to perform “Bach, the Universe and Everything” – the monthly Bach Cantata-with-science presentation that has become so popular as a live event. The event was recorded the day before […]
A new composition for harpsichord (sort of!)
It was a fortuitous chance that Steven stumbled upon a young Spanish composer appealing on Facebook to have his piano composition – a Prelude and Fugue from his wittily-titled “Well-syncopated Clavier” – played on harpsichord. Steven heard it and really liked it, recorded it and sent to back to Pascual Gimeno, the composer. He’s been […]
Yet more Quarantine videos…
Silly season is upon us (lockdown lurgy?). Here is Steven and Kate’s self-penned contribution to the covid literature:
Steven Devine “at home” on BBC Radio 3
Steven gave a “Home Session” performance of Buxtehude’s Prelude in G on BBC Radio 3’s magazine programme In Tune yesterday. The programme is available for 30 days here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000hnl9
Steven Devine in “Quarantine Sessions”
It’s a very hard time for so many people as so much work has been cancelled or disrupted. Here are some very innovative projects featuring Steven Devine that have taken place since the lockdown began in March: The OAE – Air on a G String (Bach) The OAE – Digital Version of “Bach, the Universe […]
LIVE STREAM of Bach – 21st March at 1pm
The National Centre for Early Music are live-streaming Preludes 1-12 of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier on March 21st at 1300h. This was originally to have been a live concert, but with the current restrictions in place, this had to be cancelled. However Steven will be at the harpsichord in York performing live on the NCEM Facebook […]
Performance March 11 Cancelled
Sorry to report that the Performance Clinic and Concert with Anneke Scott that was to take place tomorrow (Mar 11) at the Bate Collection in Oxford has been cancelled.