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Lodestar Trio

,LSO St Luke's
Lodestar Trio holding their instruments

By inclination one of music’s most intrepid cross-pollinators the Lodestar Trio breezes through the baroque on an exhilarating genre-bending journey into Nordic folk music and beyond. 

Serial transcriber that he was, J S Bach might nonetheless have wondered how his music would sound re-imagined for violin, Norwegian Hardanger fiddle, and Swedish nyckelharpa. He needn’t have worried! The instruments spark off each, contriving a Scandi smorgasbord that sets jaunty Merula, teasing Couperin, and a rip-roaring arrangement of the Prelude to Bach’s 6th Suite for solo cello alongside freewheeling folk-inflected works by the players themselves.

‘Lodestar does so much more than shine a different light on Bach’s pieces’, observes Songlines UK. ‘They make them anew’. Back in 2018, following an overture from cross-genre enthusiast Max Baillie, three days of exploratory jamming followed, and Lodestar was born, blazing an innovative trail fusing folk traditions with baroque re-invention. Buckle up, it's going to be an ebullient ride.

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This performance will finish at approximately 9.30pm, including a 20-minute interval

Produced by the Barbican

Programme

  • Johann Sebastian Bach   Musette in G major
  • Tarquinio Merula   Ciaconna in C major
  • Johann Sebastian Bach   'Allegro Assai’ from Violin Sonata in C major
  •   'Gavotte II’ from Cello Suite No 6
  • Olav Mjelva   Hjaltaren
  • Johann Sebastian Bach   'Sarabande' from Cello Suite No 6
  • Jean-Baptiste Lully   Loure in F major
  • Trad   Norwegian Minuet I
  •   Norwegian Minuet II
  • Max Baillie   Rolling to Roros
  • Johann Sebastian Bach   Air on the G string
  •   'Bourrée' from Violin Partita No 3
  •   'Sarabande' from Cello Suite No 5
  • François Couperin   Les Barricades Mystérieuses
  • Johann Sebastian Bach   'Prelude' from Cello Suite No 6
  • Erik Rydvall   Jubileumspolska
  • Olav Mjelva   Deliverance

Performers

  • Lodestar Trio:  
  • Max Baillie   violin
  • Erik Rydvall   swedish nyckelharpa
  • Olva Mjelva   norwegian hardanger fiddle

Digital programme

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