Details
Dorchester Abbey
High Street
Dorchester on Thames
Oxfordshire
OX10 7HH
England
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach – St John Passion, BWV 245
Performers
John Lubbock – Conductor
Francesca Saracino – Alto
Louise Wayman – soprano
Christopher Turner – Tenor
Morgan Pearse – Bass
Peter Kirk – Evangelist
Henry Neill – Pilate
Andrew Mahon – Christus
OSJ Ashmolean Voices
Orchestra of St John's
Programme Note
Written for Good Friday in 1724, the passion was the centrepiece of Bach's year-long cycle of liturgical cantatas. Perhaps the biggest joy of the St John Passion is that, for all the ferocity and sorrow of the Good Friday story, it's a truly optimistic work, anticipating the resurrection with music suffused with light and hope.
The Orchestra of St John's, OSJ Ashmolean Voices and soloist are conducted by John Lubbock