JS Bach Mass in B minor: Grand Baroque V: at Exeter Cathedral, Exeter on Saturday 27th August 2022

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JS Bach Mass in B minor

Grand Baroque V:

Add to my Calendar 27-08-2022 19:30 27-08-2022 21:30 36 JS Bach Mass in B minor The biennial Grand Baroque series returns with a flourish in 2022, bringing perhaps the most grand of all baroque works to life in Exeter Cathedral,  Mass in B minor by JS Bach   Bach was feeling his years when he completed the full mass sequence, but he was also making a statement about the immensely inventive and complex musical legacy he was leaving, much of it unrecognised in his lifetime.   The work will be recreated in the expert hands  of BEMP's principal director JanJoost van Elburg with a hand picked choir of singers from all over the UK and western Europe.  The orchestra will be led by Oliver Webber with members of the Monteverdi String Band and other invited players from this country's wealth of expert period instrumentalists.   JanJoost is a consummate and widely acknowledged interpreter of Bach's work. The soloists are Amy Haworth (soprano), Mark Dobell (tenor) and bass, Jimmy Holliday, are all highly regarded singers in their own right, as well as singing with ensembles such as The Sixteen, The Tallis Scholars and the Gabrieli Consort  and many other prominent vocal groups:  counter tenor Guy James  of the Gesualdo Six completes the solo line up, and is a rising star in the early music world. Exeter Cathedral, Exeter DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Exeter Cathedral
1 The Cloisters
Exeter
Devon
EX1 1HS
England

Saturday 27th August 2022
7:30 PM

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach – Mass in B minor, BWV 232

Performers

Amy Haworth – soprano
Guy James – counter tenor
JanJoost van Elburg – Director
Mark Dobell – tenor
Jimmy Holliday – Bass
Oliver Webber – Leader

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Monteverdi String Band

Programme Note

The biennial Grand Baroque series returns with a flourish in 2022, bringing perhaps the most grand of all baroque works to life in Exeter Cathedral,

Mass in B minor by JS Bach

Bach was feeling his years when he completed the full mass sequence, but he was also making a statement about the immensely inventive and complex musical legacy he was leaving, much of it unrecognised in his lifetime.

The work will be recreated in the expert hands of BEMP's principal director JanJoost van Elburg with a hand picked choir of singers from all over the UK and western Europe. The orchestra will be led by Oliver Webber with members of the Monteverdi String Band and other invited players from this country's wealth of expert period instrumentalists. JanJoost is a consummate and widely acknowledged interpreter of Bach's work.

The soloists are Amy Haworth (soprano), Mark Dobell (tenor) and bass, Jimmy Holliday, are all highly regarded singers in their own right, as well as singing with ensembles such as The Sixteen, The Tallis Scholars and the Gabrieli Consort and many other prominent vocal groups: counter tenor Guy James of the Gesualdo Six completes the solo line up, and is a rising star in the early music world.

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