BACH – SONATAS FOR VIOLIN AND HARPSICHORD

Mahan Esfahani is an Iranian American harpsichordist long-time based in Prague. His genre range includes early music as well as the latest compositions, which illustrates how seriously he takes his personal task to rehabilitate the harpsichord as one of the main concert instruments. However, he would not be a true student of Zuzana Růžičková if he did not go back to Johann Sebastian Bach. One of these returns will take place in January at the Church of Saints Simon and St. Jude, and Mahan, in his quest for perfection, invited the wonderful Florence Malgoire, a violin virtuoso and professor at the Schola Cantorum in Paris, where she focuses not only on learned interpretation but also on the rules of chamber music. That’s how Bach must have imagined the interplay of violin and harpsichord when he created – in his day – a revolutionary sonata cycle for these two instruments.