The 14th annual Bath Bachfest will take place from Wednesday 19th to Saturday 22nd February 2025, with six concerts celebrating the music of J S Bach and his Baroque contemporaries in the beautiful and hospitable city of Bath.

Bath Bachfest was created as a complement to the successful and long-standing annual November Bath Mozartfest and is run by the same small team and progammed by Amelia Freedman, CBE.

The 2025 festival will open with a rather special concert in Bath Abbey. Olivier Latry, organist at Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral, recently re-opened after the terrible fire, will play a programme of Bach plus French works from Couperin and Marchand on the impressive Klais organ.

On Thursday evening we welcome back Florilegium who will make their concert a family affair with the music of J S Bach, his son Carl Philipp Emanuel and their friend and godfather, Georg Telemann. They will be joined by soprano Helen Charleston.

Rachel Podger is an outstanding exponent of the Baroque violin, and with Brecon Baroque brings together a remarkable ensemble of the finest period-instrument players. Their Bath progamme will include Bach's famous double concerto for violins in D minor BWV 1043.

Our full-length Saturday morning concert brings together two musicians at the pinnacle of their musical careers. Arian Brendel, one of the most respected contemporary cellists, will share the stage in this concert encompassing the Baroque 'greats' of J S Bach, Telemann and Vivaldi with Mahan Esfahani, surely the greatest living advocate of the harpsichord.

The final 2025 concert is Bach's great B Minor Mass, described by its first publisher as 'one of the greatest musical works of art of all times and nations'.