Bach: Mass in B Minor at Cadogan Hall, London on Saturday 24th March 2018

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Bach: Mass in B Minor

Add to my Calendar 24-03-2018 19:30 24-03-2018 21:30 36 Bach: Mass in B Minor Kingston Choral Society is thrilled to return to Cadogan Hall, alongside a superb quartet of soloists and the period instruments of The Purcell Orchestra, to perform perhaps the greatest piece of choral music ever written: J.S. Bach’s mighty Mass in B Minor. Intended as compendium of everything that Bach had achieved in his lifetime, it contains music of every kind: majestic, overwhelming choruses, magnificent fugues, and arias of heart-rending beauty. Anna Devin has performed on some of the world’s great stages, including The Royal Opera House, La Scala Milan, Teatro Reale Madrid, the BBC Proms and Carnegie Hall. Katie Bray sings regularly for Opera North, English National Opera and English Touring Opera, and makes her debut with Welsh National Opera this season. Nick Pritchard was makes his Royal Opera House debut this season in Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulysses, and has sung for Opera North, Opera Holland Park, English Touring Opera and the Aldeburgh Festival. Dingle Yandell makes his debut with Scottish Opera this season, and has sung for Garsington, Bach Collegium Japan, Arcangelo, Gabrieli Consort, Early Opera Company. He is currently an Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment ‘Rising Star’. Cadogan Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace
Sloane Square, Belgravia
London
SW1X 9DQ
England

Saturday 24th March 2018
7:30 PM

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach – Mass in B minor, BWV 232

Performers

Anna Devin – soprano
Katie Bray – Alto
Nick Pritchard – Tenor
Dingle Yandell – Bass
Andrew Griffiths – Conductor

Purcell Orchestra
Kingston Choral Society

Programme Note

Kingston Choral Society is thrilled to return to Cadogan Hall, alongside a superb quartet of soloists and the period instruments of The Purcell Orchestra, to perform perhaps the greatest piece of choral music ever written: J.S. Bach’s mighty Mass in B Minor. Intended as compendium of everything that Bach had achieved in his lifetime, it contains music of every kind: majestic, overwhelming choruses, magnificent fugues, and arias of heart-rending beauty.

Anna Devin has performed on some of the world’s great stages, including The Royal Opera House, La Scala Milan, Teatro Reale Madrid, the BBC Proms and Carnegie Hall.

Katie Bray sings regularly for Opera North, English National Opera and English Touring Opera, and makes her debut with Welsh National Opera this season.

Nick Pritchard was makes his Royal Opera House debut this season in Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulysses, and has sung for Opera North, Opera Holland Park, English Touring Opera and the Aldeburgh Festival.

Dingle Yandell makes his debut with Scottish Opera this season, and has sung for Garsington, Bach Collegium Japan, Arcangelo, Gabrieli Consort, Early Opera Company. He is currently an Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment ‘Rising Star’.

Anna Devin (soprano) sings in Bach's Mass in B Minor

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