Details
Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach – Mass in B minor, BWV 232
Performers
Katherine Watson – soprano
Tim Mead – counter-tenor
Reinoud Van Mechelen – tenor
André Morsch – baritone
William Christie – Conductor
Les Arts Florissants
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Programme Note
During the last four years of his life, Johann Sebastian Bach worked on a piece that he knew would represent the summation of his life’s work. In the end, the material of Bach’s almighty Mass in B minor was almost two decades in the making - a compilation of some of his finest vocal music woven together with startlingly original new music born of acute inspiration.
William Christie conducts Bach’s Mass with a quartet of soloists and his own ensemble Les Arts Florissants, known for its historically informed and infectiously exciting performances of Baroque music.
There will be no interval