Nyman & Bach: The Draughtsman Contract & Prospero's Books, with Concerto BWV 1052

The composer Michael Nyman, whose music features in this concert, is a composer, librettist and musicologist, known for his collaborations with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway. The programme includes Greenaway’s The Draughtman’s Contract, released in 1982, and Prospero's Books a later Peter Greenaway film from 1991. Also on the programme is Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto BWV 1052 in d minor was extent by 1734 in a version that originally consisted only of the orchestral parts; the solo part was added in later, and the whole copied by Bach himself in 1738 into the manuscript of all eight of his concertos, BWV 1052–1058. The work was written in stages, with all three movements being used as movements in cantatas.