Bach Cantatas: Easter to Ascension

Bach Weekend with the Monteverdi Choir

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John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists get to the heart of our Bach weekend with four richly emotional masterpieces.

'It’s the combination of unflinching rigour and a wonderful power to comfort that makes him unique' says John Eliot Gardiner of J S Bach, and the four sacred cantatas at the heart of his Bach weekend sweep from conflict to joyous fulfilment.

Bach ‘was writing this music for a very specific moment, for a very specific time of year, in a very specific liturgy in a parochial context’ says Gardiner. ‘And yet such is the breadth of his vision that it can reach us now.’ These four works speak directly about eternal things – and these performers have genuinely lived with them.

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Programme

JS Bach ‘Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen’ BWV 12
JS Bach ‘Ihr werdet weinen und heulen’ BWV 103
G Gabrieli Timor et Tremor
JS Bach ‘O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort’ BWV 20
Sartorius Veni creator spiritus
Sartorius Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist (canons)
JS Bach ‘O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe’ BWV 34

Performers

Monteverdi Choir
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor
English Baroque Soloists
Hana Blazikova soprano
Sarah Denbee alto
Reginald Mobley alto
Hugo Hymas tenor
Gareth Treseder tenor
Alex Ashworth bass
Peter Harvey bass
Samuel Pantcheff bass

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