Bach’s St John Passion: AAM at Barbican Hall, London on Friday 18th April 2025

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Bach’s St John Passion

AAM

Part of the AAM 2024-25 | Transformation Season

Add to my Calendar 18-04-2025 15:00 18-04-2025 17:00 36 Bach’s St John Passion Faith, betrayal, tragedy and redemption: all of human emotion pulses through the notes of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion. For millions, Bach’s mighty choral retelling of the Passion of Jesus Christ is one of the supreme masterpieces of western art. But it’s also an intenselyemotional human drama, and one that never gets any less urgent. Musicians live to perform Bach – and in music as powerful as this, the expert players of AAM have a very special insight to share. ‘Rare and rich’ was how The Times described the result when we performed it in 2022, but Laurence Cummings knows that any performance is nothing unless it touches both heart and soul. Today, with six outstanding soloists, we aim to do nothing less. Barbican Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Barbican Hall
Silk Street
Barbican, City of London
London
EC2Y 8DS
England

Friday 18th April 2025
3:00 PM

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach – St John Passion, BWV 245

Performers

Nicholas Mulroy – Evangelist
Dingle Yandell – Christus
Carolyn Sampson – soprano
Helen Charlston – Alto
Ed Lyon – tenor
Jonathan Brown – Bass
Laurence Cummings – director / harpsichord

Academy of Ancient Music

Programme Note

Faith, betrayal, tragedy and redemption: all of human emotion pulses through the notes of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion.

For millions, Bach’s mighty choral retelling of the Passion of Jesus Christ is one of the supreme masterpieces of western art. But it’s also an intensely
emotional human drama, and one that never gets any less urgent.

Musicians live to perform Bach – and in music as powerful as this, the expert players of AAM have a very special insight to share. ‘Rare and rich’ was how The Times described the result when we performed it in 2022, but Laurence Cummings knows that any performance is nothing unless it touches both heart and soul. Today, with six outstanding soloists, we aim to do nothing less.

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