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Bach Cantatas: Trinity Season

Bach Weekend with the Monteverdi Choir

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Sir John Eliot Gardiner and his Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists conclude their Bach weekend in a blaze of hope.

‘Soar joyfully on high’: in Bach’s universe, joy was the natural outcome of prayer. In the third and final concert of John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach cantata weekend, four cantatas tread a path from hope to affirmation, in music of limitless beauty and depth.

Indeed, Wachet auf, is probably one of the most familiar of all Bach’s 200-plus cantatas. But these artists know that it’s just one jewel amidst near-limitless musical riches. Gardiner’s unsurpassed ability to ‘convert knowledge into a profound sense of what makes the music work’ (The Spectator) means that his Bach speaks to both heart and soul.

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