SKaffeehaus
Brought to you by the baroque music collective Solomon's Knot, the SKaffeehaus is a space where we chat to interesting people, get geeky about old music, explore the ideas behind upcoming projects, and discuss news and trends in the classical music world.
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Episodes
9 episodes
Bach's Horns
Spread over 3 different time zones 17 hours apart, Jonny chats to SK ‘horn star’ Anneke Scott and Professor Bertil van Boer of Western Washington University in a deep dive into the origins of the horn in art music performance, specifically in t...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:23:13
JS Bach's St Matthew Passion
SK artistic director Jonathan Sells speaks to Professor Bettina Varwig, stage director John La Bouchardière and keyboard player Chad Kelly about Bach's St Matthew Passion. What is it, and how will Solomon’s Knot’s approach it?
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:15:44
How shall we sing the Lord's song? Help for non-believers.
SK alto Kate Symonds-Joy (codename KSJ) interviews director Tom Guthrie, SK sopranos Zoë Brookshaw and Clare Lloyd-Griffiths, and the Preacher of Lincoln's Inn chapel, the Ven Sheila Wilson, on a search for answers to her burning questions:...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:02:03
Who is the Matthew Passion for?
Solomon's Knot Artistic Director Jonathan Sells gives his personal take on why JS Bach's St Matthew Passion continues to attract audiences every year, for whom it is 'for', and how we should best approach listening to or experiencing it.
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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21:41
Who now?! KUHNAU!
Composer, outstanding organist, choir trainer, lawyer, and formidable linguist, Johann Kuhnau was Thomaskantor in Leipzig for over 20 years, writing over 1,000 vocal works for church performance there. The few dozen that remain show a var...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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58:30
Bach Motets
Jonny, SK alto and musicology PhD Nathan Mercieca, Prof Stephen Rose and Dr Bettina Varwig get deep inside the Bach motets, including the context provided by the four Johann Christoph Bach pieces SK has selected for the upcoming tour and...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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57:06
Telemann und seine Dichter - auf Deutsch!
This is our first podcast episode in German, discussing context and scholarship around the DONNERODE Telemann programme that we are performing with Les Passions de l'Ame in Magdeburg and La Chaux-de-Fonds in March 2022, and that will also be re...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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57:25
The One about Us
We try to keep navel-gazing to a minimum in the SKaffeehaus, so we wanted to get it out the way early. This episode also gives newcomers to SK a good idea of what we do, and how we roll. Featuring artistic director Jonathan ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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1:01:24
Not the Christmas Oratorio with Professor Stephen Rose
Not the Christmas Oratorio was Solomon's Knot's new project for September and October 2021. It consists of the three secular cantatas (or juicy mini operas) which Bach later recycled into his well-known festive work. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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