RSO & Antoine Tamestit

Antoine Tamestit, conductor and viola da gamba Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale “Für deinen Thron tret ich hiermit” BWV 327 Paul Hindemith: Trauermusik for viola da gamba and string orchestra Johann Sebastian Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus I & III Alfred Schnittke: Monologue for viola da gamba and strings Johann Sebastian Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus II & IV Dmitri Shostakovich (orchestrated by Rudolf Barshai): Chamber Symphony in C minor op. 110a Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale “Vor deinen Thron tret’ ich hiermit” BWV 668 Late‑evening chamber music: Giuseppe Gentile, clarinet Tuukka Vihtkari, bassoon Tomas Gricius, trumpet Jouko Laivuori, piano Marc‑André Dalbavie: Axiom Viola da gamba soloist Antoine Tamestit, RSO’s resident artist of the season, experiences music‑making as a communal act. “I want the audience to feel what it means to breathe music together on stage,” he says. In this concert he leads a group of equal musicians on a special journey, where three striking 20th‑century works by Hindemith, Schnittke and Shostakovich are linked together by the golden thread of Johann Sebastian Bach’s immortal music.