J S Bach - Mass in B Minor: Canticum Chamber Choir at Holy Trinity Church, London on Thursday 15th June 2023

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J S Bach - Mass in B Minor

Canticum Chamber Choir

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Details

Holy Trinity Church
Sloane Street
Sloane Square
London
SW1X 9BZ
England

Thursday 15th June 2023
7:30 PM

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach – Mass in B minor, BWV 232

Performers

Rachel Elliott – soprano
Amy Lyddon – mezzo-soprano
Nicholas Madden – tenor
Ashley Riches – baritone
Mark Forkgen – Conductor

Canticum Chamber Choir
Counterpoint

Programme Note

The greatest setting of the Roman Catholic Mass – by a pious Lutheran. A project begun in 1733 as part of a job application but not completed until the end of his life. A display of contrapuntal choral mastery, and virtuosic solo writing which would grace any opera house. A score for whose later movements the composer drew heavily on pieces he had previously written.

Such are the extraordinary origins of Bach’s mighty Mass in B minor, a work very familiar to Canticum and the early music ensemble Counterpoint, who will perform it in the splendid surroundings of Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, the church which John Betjeman called “the cathedral of the Arts & Crafts Movement".

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