Jeremy Denk Plays Bach

Dunbar Parish Church

Duration: 1 hour 15 mins

Preludes and Fugues 13-24 from The Well-Tempered Clavier

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Photo credit: Robin Mitchell

Performing Bach’s ‘Well-tempered clavier’ is a truly epic endeavour, demanding technique and musicianship of the highest order.

Jeremy Denk, one of America’s foremost pianists and our 2021 Lammermuir Festival artist in residence, is just the man for such a daunting task and in this concert he delivers a tour de force.  The characterisation of the music – playful, elegiac, brilliant and melancholy is brought out with sublime skill.

A superb solo recital . . . crystalline in clarity of his pianistic vision, the pellucid beauty of each phrase breathing with rich magic in Dunbar Parish Church.

The Times ***** (2021 Lammermuir Festival)

Dunbar Parish Church

Dunbar Parish Church, Gillespie Graham's grand red sandstone gothic church of 1821 stands proudly looking out to sea.

Damaged by fire in 1987, its spacious interior was restored with a colourful mix of ancient and modern features including an elaborate early 17th Century monument to the Earl of Dunbar and some fine 1990 stained glass by Shona McInnes and Douglas Hogg.

Dunbar Parish Church

Address

Dunbar Parish Church
EH42 1LB

Getting there by bus

Services to Dunbar via Edinburgh, Haddington and North Berwick and Berwick upon Tweed. All stop at Dunbar High Street. Walk to the end of the High Street and take the left fork. Church on your right.

Getting there by train

Dunbar Station is on the east coast mainline and has frequent trains running through the station.
Timetables can be found at scotrail.co.uk.
Exit the station, at the top of the road turn right. Turn right again and you will see the church ahead of you.

Getting there by car

Follow the A1 until you reach the Spott roundabout. Take the exit for Dunbar. Follow the road to T-Junction. Take the left at this junction and the church is on your left. 30 miles from Edinburgh.

Accessibility

Parking:

There is free car parking around the town.

There are 3 designated but unreserved spaces within church grounds for Blue Badge holders. Please email [email protected] to book one of these spaces, subject to availability, first come first served.

UPDATE: Please note there are no more blue badge spaces for the concert on 11/09 Alina Ibragimova & Steven Osborne

Terrain:

Tarmac

Induction Loop:
Yes

Toilets:
Ladies and gents on ground (one adapted toilet) and first floors.

Wheelchair Access:

Sloped tarmac path to church. Level access into venue.

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