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Bach Cantatas: Advent to Christmas

Bach Weekend with the Monteverdi Choir

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Portrait of Sir John Eliot Gardiner

John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists launch a weekend-long celebration of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Few conductors and few ensembles have identified more closely with Bach’s cantatas than John Eliot Gardiner and his Monteverdi Choir, along with English Baroque Soloists. They begin a weekend-long celebration of this endlessly rich music with four works that show Bach’s genius at its most dramatic – and inexhaustible.

Bach, says Gardiner, ‘can make a scene as vivid as anything in an opera’. In this emotionally-charged first of seven all-Bach concerts, he focuses on music that sets light against darkness, pain against joy. These performers’ recorded cycle of the Bach cantatas, wrote The Observer, ‘ranks as one of the musical events of the decade’.

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Programme

  • JS Bach   ‘Wachet! betet! betet! wachet!’ BWV 70
  • Jacobus Gallus   Jerusalem gaude gaudio
  • JS Bach   ‘Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland’ BWV 61
  • JS Bach   ‘Jesus schläft, was sol lich hoffen?’ BWV 81
  • Schütz   ‘Ach, Herr, du Schöpfer aller Ding’ SWV 450
  • JS Bach   ‘Unser Mund sei voll Lachens’ BWV 110

Performers

  • Monteverdi Choir  
  • Sir John Eliot Gardiner   conductor
  • English Baroque Soloists  
  • Hana Blazikova   soprano
  • Julia Doyle   soprano
  • Reginald Mobley   alto
  • Hugo Hymas   tenor
  • Peter Harvey   bass

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Watch: John Eliot Gardiner - celebrating the Universal Bach

 

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